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...calories happens to be the amount students receive in Heidelberg University, one of the five universities to which the Harvard Relief committee will sent food. The others--in Athens, Peking, East Punjab, and Salzburg--are all crammed with students suffering from equally inadequate sustenance. In these universities, some of the moral and political leadership of a future world is being formed. Today, according to the Rector of the University of Heidelberg, there is "danger of a moral and political breakdown" among students. Again, the situation in the other universities is similar...
Since the India-Pakistan line was drawn last summer, over eight million people from the minority community on both sides have crossed the border. In Lahore, the biggest center of East Punjab University, 16,000 out of 20,000 have been forced to leave their homes...
Overseas seats of learning "adopted' by the Committee for this third world student relief drive are the universities in Athens, Peiping, Delhi, and Heidelberg. The school at East Punjab, India, was included, Robbins said, because W.S.S.F. officials felt that greatest support could be registered here for this slightly less dramatic but no less needy area...
Downhill. Things had gone from bad to worse for Gandhi, the pacifist, in recent months. India and Pakistan drifted toward war in Kashmir. Religious feelings still ran high from the autumn massacres in the Punjab; Sikh and Hindu refugees demanded revenge against Pakistan, and were forcing Moslems out of their homes. War fever caught on in Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan hopefully exclaimed: "Every Pakistani is an atom bomb in himself...
Neither side is likely to underestimate the difficulty involved in reaching an agreement. India feels that Kashmir is rightfully hers despite an overwhelming Moslem population--the Hindu ruler preferred to stay out of Mohammedan Pakistan. She claims that the invading Punjab tribesmen have the backing of the Pakistan, Government and points out that the raiders have recently used light artillery and are singularly well equipped. Pakistan naturally feels that Kashmir is wrongfully in the enemy camp, but at the same time claims that the fault lies not with her, but with an Indian which is charged with trying to ruin...