UNIVERSITY SPIRIT
OPPOSED TO NAZISM (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Friday "The truth is that Nazism and the university spirit are irreconcilably opposed," said Mr. W. P. Rollings in an address at the Victoria University College capping ceremony. ."Wherever the Nazis hav;e gone the first institutions to bo closed down have been the universities, and the first sections of the people to receive the unwelcome attention of the Gestapo had been the students and intellectuals. "1 invite those who would make unfounded at take upon institutions of higher learning to look at what has happened and is happening in Europe," continued Mr. Rollings, "and ask themselves whether they are not doing Hitler's work for him. and allowing themselves to become the tools and utensils of Fascism, Like our troops, democracy has been fighting rearguard actions, but the time is now ripe for a long-range intellectual offensive against the ideological bastions of totalitarianism. Let, us understand in all their implications the principles of democratic faith, and. having understood themselves, let us become propagandists of them fo others."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23955, 3 May 1941, Page 11
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173UNIVERSITY SPIRIT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23955, 3 May 1941, Page 11
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