24 MAY 1940, Page 6

It is tragic that the university library at Louvain should

have been destroyed for the second time in quarter of a century, and by the same unhallowed hands. After the last war the noble work of re-stocking the library was organised by Dr. Henry Guppy, then as now librarian of the John Rylands Library at Manchester. When I visited Louvain not long after the war the mere statement that I knew someone who knew Dr. Guppy well was enough to ensure that I was received with something little short of reverence. Now Louvain, razed a second time, must a second time be restored.

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