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Christian Krediet, a former student at Leyden University, describes the reaction of Dutch colleges to the "pacification" imposed by the Nazis. This resistance does not stop at grumbling. Articles such as Krediet's and those on British and Russian students is past issues of "Threshold" are striking disproof of the theory that "decadence" and "softness" fully describe young men and women in the United Nations...
...represented the United States government at the World Federation of Education Association's meeting at Tokyo, Japan. In 1939 he organized an Institute of International Affairs at Leyden University, Holland...
...professor's heroic speech led to the closing of The Netherlands' famed 365-year-old University of Leyden was last week revealed by Leydeners in Manhattan who had just received a full report smuggled from their home town...
...reward for their bravery in fighting Spanish rule, William of Orange three and a half centuries ago offered Leyden's burghers the gift of i) a university, or 2) freedom from taxation. They chose the university. Last November Nazis took over the university and promptly fired one of its most brilliant and popular professors, 61-year-old Eduard Maurits Meyers...
When he finished, Leyden's students cheered wildly. Next morning Nazis arrested Professor Cleveringa and sent him to a concentration camp. Instead of bowing, students paraded and shouted in Leyden's streets, raised such a commotion that the Germans closed the university...