THE UNIVERSITY LABOUR FEDERATION Sn1, — Opinions among your readers may differ
as to the taste of " Janus's " reference to the anti-war vote of the Uni- versity Labour Federation's conference. But I hope all of your readers will agree with me in protesting against the scarcely veiled threat contained in an anonymous letter' which you printed last week—that students who engage in political activities (though presumably only those opposed to the Government) should have their college and State endowments withdrawn.
Such political victimisation was, I thought, characteristic of the Hitlerism against which we claim to be fighting. There are already disturbing signs of a desire to introduce such methods into England, as they have already appeared in France. This casting out of devils by Beelzebub is, I sup- pose, • what causes the scepticism of the U.L.F. about the democratic character of Mr. Chamberlain's war. Freedom is, indeed, in peril if academic grants are to be subject to a
political test.—Yours faithfully, CHRISTOPHER HILL. Balliol College, Oxford.
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