The Exiled German Teachers On no group of Germans has
the fury of Nazi intolerance fallen more hardly or more lamentably than on learned men engaged in teaching and investigation work ; and a number of distinguished men of learning in England have been moved to form an " Academic Assistance Council to help members of this class who " on grounds of religion, political opinion, or race are unable to carry on their work in their own country." There can be nothing but gain to us in receiving in our midst some of those fine intellectual forces of which the Germans have foolishly deprived themselves. England gained much in the thirteenth century by the sojourn of foreign scholars at Oxford and Cambridge, just as Italy gained in the fifteenth century by welcoming the exiled Greeks of Constantinople. There will not be many existing academic posts available in our Universities and University Colleges, but a great effort should be made to create new opportunities of useful employment for them. To this end the Council makes its appeal and all those " concerned for academic freedom and the security of learning" should respond to it.
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