THE GUARDIAN
Cutting dated.5.0.CT. 1970.
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Hong Kong: purge of university staff and students
Sir,-One of our colleagues,
lecturer in
was
a German
the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was expelled last week from the colony. The Govern- ment gave no reason for the expulsion. At first, the local press assumed that it because this lecturer, Mr Klaus Schleusener, participated a few months ago in a demon- stration against the Vietnam war in front of the local office American of Pan
Airways. Since other foreigners working in the Chinese University of Hong Kong but who did not participate in the demonstration were also expelled, the press concluded that their expulsion was due to inciting the Chinese students to use more radical methods to
their pursue political aims.
One cannot but wonder how the authorities knew about what conversations ever took place between students and their teachers. Are there police informers among the students or did the authorities rely on mere rumours? Is it a crime in a British colony to express one's private views to another individual?
The Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University told journal- ists that he only learned of the incident through the press, No more has been heard of it. The head of the German depart- ment, another German lccturer, said that he had decided on no account to protest because he did not want to compromise
lose his position and pleasant job.
his
As colleagues of Mr · K.
Schleusener and the French lecturers in the same university, we would like to attract the attention of your readers to this incident. One of us tells his students that, because of its democracy, England is the coun try he most prefers in Europe. They are always surprised.
I immediately add: do not judge England by the English here, colonies rot the colonisers as well as the colonised. How. ever, one cannot help thinking sometimes that English public opinion would
not be very proud if the English knew what is perpetrated here in the name of their country.
Yours sincerely,
(Prof) Jacques Pimpaneau,
Paul Pouradier-Duteil The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
J.K. Marsh. K245
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