AID FOR REFUGEE SCHOLARS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
SIR,—I should be grateful if you would allow me through your columns to draw to the attention of your readers the special contribution which the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning is making, and has been making over the past five years, to the refugee problem, which the whole of the civilised world is today facing with such remark- able spontaneity and generosity.
This society (of which His Grace the Archbishop of York is president and Sir Frederick Kenyon chairman) exists to help scholars and scientists displaced from their own univer- sities and professions to be re-absorbed into academic life elsewhere, so that their intellectual gifts and training may not be wasted and so that each individual scientist, scholar and doctor may still be able to make the contribution to knowledge which in many cases he and he alone is capable of making. So far we have succeeded in placing over 5D7 permanently and nearly 350 temporarily and amongst those whom we have been privileged to help are men and women whose intellectual gifts and genius form part of the cultural wealth of the world.
The society is holding a number of meetings early in February in the academic centres throughout the country to enable all those engaged in leaching, learning and research to give corporate and tangible expression to their sympathy. I hope these meetings will have the most generous possible support, as the latest developments in Germany, the crisis in Czecho-Slovakia and the new legislation in Italy have trebled our waiting lists and made each individual problem more pressing and acute. As vice-president of the society I should be grateful if you would publish this letter so that this part of the work undertaken to help these distinguished refugees and exiles of learning may be widely known.—! am, Sir,
yours, &c. W. H. BEVERIDGE, Vice-President. Society for the Protection of S,:ience and Learning, 6 Gordon Square, Londo3, W.C. r.
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