COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA
AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON. .lan. 20. A mild sensation was caused at Oxford University by the allegation that Communist propaganda was being eondueled among Indian students concerning which a question was recently asked in the House ot Commons. I lie up--iiiot has been correspondence between the \ ire-t 'hancellor. proctors, and a (Queensland Rhodes scholar. F. R. Steph enson. a second year student, who has also given political addresses in 'iorkshire. lie was requested by the proctors to give a written guarantee within -IS hours to cease propaganda among 1 ;| dians while at the l Diversity, otherwise he would he “sent down. Stephenson signed tlie gna ra lit ee on Mondttv Stephenson. interviewed. said the action of the Vice-Chancellor in compelling him to sign the promise not to endeavour to propaganda Communist views directly or indirect I v “is quite In ceeordanee with I lie conservative traditions of the Oxford authorities, who are notorious lor their resistance to the new vital ideas of each succeeding generation, lint the viced 'hancellor has unlimited power. IKs word is law. and I have no wish suddenly to discontinue my studies for honours in school philosophy, polities and economies."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 January 1926, Page 5
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