European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Feature Section editorial the stars end stripes Apo 175 us army Iii i t in monies in Tiu a Talacci Mark the opening of he free a Vershy of Berlin alter political measures were taken against students at the old school in the soviet sector Carl Amlauer and Andreas Faulson look Over the store of books on the shelves of the Library established for the new University in the fight for Freedom. Of thought West Bei to free University Points the Way in the Conj War against soviet repression by Dwight Schear staff writer 1 faculty and students of the free University of Berlin consider to i struggling year old institution to be the legitimate descendant of the world famous University of Berlin of pre Hill times. But they Don t emphasize the Point. Efforts Here to resurrect a democratic University in 1945 from the ruins left by the Hitler dictatorship were Quickl gnashed by another dictatorship russian insistence on Complete Domi-nance1 Over the University by virtue of the school s location a half mile inside the soviet sector forced students faculty ind i sympathetic West Berlin Public to cooperate in founding the free University in tin . Sector District of  Over a  ago. Today having surmounted the obstacles of its first and probably toughest year the free University has made a Good Star toward achieving the prestige that accrued to Berlin s pre-1933 University. To assume however that the new school s horizons Are limited to those of 1933would be to misjudge Germany s most dramatic educational  free University of Berlin is Ger Many s first institution of higher learn ing established on close knit faculty student Public cooperation. It was founded not Only to escape dictatorial stale control but also to make a clean break with the old prussian caste system of , Here Are the developments which gave it birth when the Western occupation Powers entered Berlin in the summer of 1945,they found that the russians who had arrived three months earlier had already begun reorganization of the University along bolshevik lines the . Education representative pro posed in the Allied Kornma Datura that the University be placed u Ider the Ber in City government where it had always been so that each occupation Power could share responsibility for the school development a russian veto one of their first blocked the . Proposal. The soviet Komman Delura representative argue that the University served a wider area than the City of Berlin and therefore should not be controlled merely. By the City government. The dispute was finally carried i october 1945. To the Allied control authority the highest governing body i Germany. The same arguments were heard and the russians again used thei veto to prevent four Power control of the Berlin University. After two postponements the University reopened in january 1946 under russian control. A group of faculty members led by prof. Eduard Spranger appealed to . And British military governments to counter the soviet move by opening a University in one of the Western  Spranger s group was told that a serious unilateral action of that nature might disrupt Allied relations at a time when the West was making every Effort to get along with the Eastern occupiers. The soviet Conception of a University was soon made Clear on Unter Den Linden. Favored students and professors received extra food Coal and other special donations. Sons and daughters of labourer were Given advantages Over the children of capitalists and professional  professors were installed in key positions on the Legal economic and philosophical faculties. The University was flooded with student party liners who were first trained at a nearby communist preparatory school. Course sin which communist propaganda could most easily be propagated were mad compulsory. When a majority of the students How Ever failed to respond to indirect forms of communist pressure the soviet ordered a switch to More direct and brutal methods six anti communist students were kidnapped in the Spring of 1947. Spies eavesdropped on student meet Ings and even private conversations. The situation reached a Climax in april1948 when three editors of colloquium a student monthly Magazine which specialized in articles on academic Freedom were dismissed from the University. A according to Howard w. John Ston Hico Berlin element Educa Tion officer the question raised by the sudden expulsion was not