Word: hanfstaengls
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...wise to remember that the Hanfstaengl case and this one which has developed from it should be considered as individual cases. If Mr. Mellon or any person disinterested in the Hitler government were to present a student with a similar chance--but without the present implication--the problem would not be the same and different action would be advisable...
...what I read in the German papers is true, there is an old-fashioned set-to going on at Harvard--and in, a grand manner, as it were, over the offer of Dr. Hanfstaengl. I wish I could be there to watch the verbal pyrotechnics, but since I can't, I'll take no sides. But here's an article from the "Volkischer Beobachter"--Munich edition of October 10--which I thought might interest you. The English is obviously mine, but I assure you it came from very good German...
...ready offer of the Chief of Press for foreign affairs of the NSDAP, Dr. Hanfstaengl, who as is known, has proffered a stipendium through Harvard University to a student for one year of study in Germany at the University of Munich, and whose stipendium has been declined by the Overseers of Harvard in a manner offensive not only to Dr. Hanfstaengl, but also to the whole German system of higher learning, has raised a storm of anger in the student body of Harvard. (Here is quoted the CRIMSON editorial of October...
...Thus various Harvard instructors have already aligned themselves on the side of Dr. Hanfstaengl. In their telegrams of sympathy to him they demand for young American students the right to study freely in a land of such great scientific and cultural traditions as Germany and to be allowed to widen their scope in this way. Moreover, the Harvard Club of Berlin--which is a union of former Harvard students--will busy itself next Friday with this affair...
...informed, a member of the faculty of the American Harvard University has also joined now the protest of the students against the rejection of a scholarship offered by Dr. Hanfstaengl for a student...