Rudi intelligence
Last week was a bad week for Rudi Dutschke, I was glad to learn from the Daily Mirror and the Guardian. The Daily Mirror reported that Danny La Rue had been elected as their Honorary President by the students of the London School of Economics, who gave him a two-to-one majority over the other candidate, Rudi Dutschke. Danny La Rue is, so I am told, right-wing and earlier this year he and Tommy Steele helped to avert an Equity strike.
The Guardian on its back page also re- ported that Danny La Rue had been picked by the LSE students, quoting him : 'You'll never guess how flattered I am. I'm not a university type. I just had an ordinary ele- mentary education'. But somehow the Guard- ian could not bring itself to report that Rudi
'We can't carry on meeting like this—my wife's becoming suspicious'
had come second to Danny and readers of both newspapers might have •been forgiven for thinking that the Guardian, in its own peculiar fashion, was going out of its way to be nice to Rudi.
Not, however, so. On one of its foreign news pages, the Guardian came up with some very gratifying information, which was that for his first lecture at Aarhus University. only ten students out of the eighty at the History of Ideas Institute (which is the out- fit whose head and founder, Professor Johannes Sloek, invited young Rudi to Den- mark) turned up. It seems that Professor Sloek (pronounced, I believe, clerk, not slook) ruled 'only students of a "specially high standard" should attend'.
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