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Htin Aung, rector of the University of Rangoon . . . . . . . LL.D...
...Protest. When his appointment was announced, the rector and his entire senate (some 20 professors) at the University of Göttingen resigned in shocked protest. Then followed one of the most heartfelt outbursts of democratic feeling in West Germany's brief history. Students all over Germany protested; Göttingen's 5,000 students remained off campus, educators and scientists flooded the state government with protests. The West German press blasted him with editorials, devoting more space to his case than to Khrushchev's visit to Belgrade. Said the respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Schl...
...founders decided to expand the school, picked Dutchman Hendrik Brugmans, professor of French literature at the State University at Utrecht, to be its head. Last week, having just received the first fruits of his recent U.S. tour in the form of a $10,000 donation from the Ford Foundation, Rector Brugmans had reason to feel that the college's mission has become even broader than its name. "Our concept of Europe," says he, "goes as far as liberty goes." Underlying Themes. Today, financed by grants from the Belgian, Dutch, Luxembourg and West German governments, the college has 37 students...
...East and West zones, rejected the fiery Rev. Dr. Gustav Heinemann, 55, for a second term as president. Heinemann, who violently opposed Adenauer's alignment with the West and campaigned against German rearmament, was discarded in favor of the Rev. Dr. Constantin von Dietze, 63, Cambridge-educated former rector of Freiburg University. Elected without opposition for another six-year term as chairman of the church council: Bishop Otto Dibelius...
...temporary State Department attaché in postwar Italy, Historian Haines had an idea: the young experts the U.S. and its allies need to conduct European affairs could best be trained on location. After winning over his Johns Hopkins superiors, Haines went back to Bologna with a detailed program, got Rector Felice Battaglia's offer of the use of all university facilities. U.S. donors agreed to underwrite the center's annual $200,000 cost, and Director Haines set up shop in Bologna...