ACADEMIC FREEDOM OF THOUGH] and expression in the Federation is
also under attack. The Salisbury City Council has withheld a grant of £1,200 promised to the University College of Rho- desia and Nyasaland, and the Nyasaland Tobacco Association another of E500, pending an 'explana- tion' of why thirty-eight members of the academic staff signed a letter of protest to the Government against the Preventive Detention Bill (which pro- vides for up to five years in prison without trial on mere suspicion of Congress membership or other 'undesirable' association). No university that did not make such a protest would be worth having. Salisbury City Council is a public body and one cannot help wondering whether the State, too, may not attempt to muzzle the University College (which is generally presented as both the hope and the guarantee of 'partnership') if it takes its responsibilities seriously enough to be uncom- fortable to the Government.
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