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...Corporation accepted the invitation to participate in the celebration entirely unfamiliar with the existing situation in Germany. To withdraw from the 550th anniversary celebration of a University which has stood, until recently, for the very best that education has to offer, would be an act of supreme discourtesy to Heidelberg and to the reputation that it has built up over five centuries. The Harvard Student Union is merely trying to make an issue of a non-political problem, because it is unable to resist any opportunity to take a crack at the Germany Government of today...
...show a puerile hostility of this sort which will only end with the result that international relations, already filled with suspicion and hatred, will be aggravated. No one is so easily duped that he believes that the Hitler Government will not make the best propaganda use of the coming Heidelberg affair, but it does not follow that withdrawal from the celebration is necessary merely because the element of propaganda will be present...
...resolution will request the President to reconsider his decision to send delegates to Heidelberg's 550th anniversary, in view of the recent news that the celebration will be devoted to Nazi propaganda...
...Ernst Wolf is listed on the Heldelberg schedule as a Harvard "guest." He received a Ph.D. from Heidelberg in 1924, was on the faculty from 1926-31 when he came to Harvard as a lecturer on General Physiology. Last year he severed official connections with the University, and is now conducting private research...
When questioned about his Heidelberg "guestship" Wolf said that he know nothing about it. He received an invitation about two months ago which he answered by thanking them and saying that he would gladly attend if he decided to go to Europe this summer