Ant i - Semitism C011. or Lab. ? West Berlin `A frica South' Defence
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General de Gaulle J. G. W. Davies Guy Ramsey, A. J. Michael Daws .• John Peel Canon L. John Collins A. V. Greaves C. Humphris Peter Grafton JOhn Connell David Ross ANTI-SEMITISM , could not reach the conclusion that any of the Board's Secretaries were prejudiced in a way which ,Would prevent Jewish undergraduates from getting pair treatment. Nor was any suggestion made that the Secretaries of support and help they received from the ?ecretaries in finding suitable employment was in- ferior either in substance or in manner to that received by their non-Jewish contemporaries.
Steps were taken to impress on all executive officers of the Board the need to be acutely vigilant and self- c,ritical in assessing any individuals of Jewish origin (or indeed those belonging to any particular religious or racial group) where there was the slightest danger of
Judgment being warped by the influence of tradi- tional prejudice. AF Chairman of my Board is at present in South friea, but I have had an opportunity to discuss this ratter with Sir Henry Willink, the Master of Magda- irl eae, who was Vice-Chancellor in 1954 and who has Concurred in the terms of this letter.—Yours faithfully, '3111,—It is distressing to write on the subject of alleged anti-Semitism from the University of Cambridge. a society in which a liberal tradition has flourished for Many years and in which Jewish people play so dis- tinguished and so valued a part. In your issue of September 4 you revive publicly a specific complaint which was made by an individual graduate in 1954 and which was investigated by the Vice-Chancellor then in office and by the Chairman of the Appointments Board. Naturally they viewed with deep concern any suspicion of prejudice against Jewish people in any quarter of the University. Some of the words quoted could not be verified without a search through thousands of files, but. since those which could be checked were accurate, it was assumed that the rest were substantially correct. though taken out of context. Certain of these remarks were acknowledged to be regrettable and unjustified 4 efveriin private and confidential manuscript notes. "m which they must have been extracted. On the other hand, the number of Jewish under- graduates using the Board's services is appreciable 01.rid these were isolated instances. The Vice-Chancel-
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