RHODES SCHOLARS
SIR,—Dr. C. K. Allen indicate3 that ‘" there is not the smallest intention of reviving the German Rhodes Scholarship either now or within any predictable time."
It is generally agreed that (1) the education of German youth on democratic lines is of supeeme importance to the future of Europe, and (2) this education must he undertaken by the Germans themselves. I suggest that it would be a stroke of far-sighted and imaginative policy to offer the German Rhodes Scholarships to very carefully chosen German students from the British and American occupation zones who, on political or racial grounds, were debarred by the Nazis from the German Univer- sities. I have recently returned from Army Service in Hamburg, where I met several students of the right type whose anti-Nazi record was unquestionable.
Such young men, taking up teaching appointments in German echools and Universities after their training at Oxford, would .surely exercise a far-reaching influence for good on the generation which is to build a new Germany under Allied control.—Yours faithfully,
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