After Dutschke
The liberals (and others) of Oxford still rumble on about the Dutschke affair, con- cerned more about the deterioration of the relations with their students than with Dutschke himself. Christopher Seton- Watson, on sabbatical leave from Oriel, where he is a tutor in PPE, is about to start circulating the dons in order to gain support for a petition and a delegation to the Home Secretary, Reggie Maudling. It is unlikely in the extreme that Maudling will change his mind on Dutschke. Privately he remains convinced that the right decision was taken, although conceding that the affair might have been better handled.
Christopher Seton-Watson, however, hopes for more general assurances. The first step in his campaign will be to distribute widely a summary 'he has made of the speech he made last month on the matter (and to which Mercurius Oxoniensis referred last week). 'What, then, is a Politics tutor to do?' asked, and asks, Seton-Watson. 'Should he warn his foreign pupils at the beginning of their career here that if they indulge in "political activities" (i.e. discussion with "dangerous" friends), their telephones could be tapped, and they could be expelled from the country?'
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