Sanctuary

If a committee of famed football coaches were to call on the average U. S. college president and offer him as a student a halfback like Red Grange, the president would be surprised but would be glad to accept the student tuition-free. Last week a group of 55 famed U. S. educators and scientists wrote to 500 U. S. college presidents offering them not athletes, but the pick of refugee scholars from Germany, Italy and Franco Spain.

Leader of the group was Columbia University's top-notch Chemist Harold C. Urey, discoverer of "heavy water." Other members included Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken, Cornell's ex-President Livingston Farrand, Harvard's Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick. They proposed that U. S. colleges give sanctuary and scholarships to the students fleeing the universities of the Fascist countries "because of their belief in democracy." They would be selected by the International Student Service, chosen for ability to make "a positive contribution to American life." Dr. Urey hoped that large universities would each take a dozen or more refugees, that by the fall at least a thousand would be imported to U. S. campuses. Said the appeal: "The victims whose intellectual and moral lives we ask you to save are found among Catholics, Jews and Protestants."

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