MILD SENSATION

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1926, Page 2

MILD SENSATION

COMMUNISM AT OXFORD, (Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Jan. 20. A mild sensation has been caused at the Oxford University by the allegation that Communist propaganda is being conducted among the Indian students, concerning which a question was recently asked in the Commons. The upshot has been a correspondence between the Vice-Chancellor, the proctors and a Queensland Rhodes scholar, F. R. Stephenson, a second year student, who has also given a political address in Yorkshire, fie was requested by the proctors to give a written guarantee within 48 hours to cease Ids pro; Uganda among the Indians, while at, the University, otherwise be lie “sent down.”

Stephenson signed t.lie guarantee on .Monday.

STEPHENSON INTERVIEWED. LONDON, January 20. Stephenson, interviewed, said the action of the Vice-Chancellor, compelling him to sign a promise not to endeavour to propagate Communist views directly or indirectly, '“is quite in accordance with the conservative traditions of the Oxford authorities, who ure notorious for their resistance to the new and vital ideas of each succeeding generation. Rut. the Vice-Chancellor has unlimited powers; his word is law and I do not wish suddenly to discontinue my studies for honours in school philosophy, polities and economics.”