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P: In a special report on Chinese students and scholars in the U.S., the Institute of International Education produced a powerful rebuttal to the Communist charge made in Geneva in May of 1954 that the U.S. is "forcibly retaining'' many students contrary to "the principles of international law and humanitarianism." In addition to regular ECA funds, said the report, the State Department has spent more than $8,000,000 helping more than 3,600 students and scholars cut off from funds from Red China. Of the 1,300 Chinese who have left this country, about 930 received at least part of their travel expenses from the Government, and 791 of these received emergency aid. During the Korean war, the U.S. detained 150 students who had acquired skills that might have been of military aid to the Communists. But when the last detention was lifted in 1955, only 39 students chose to return to Red China. P: After a three-hour session behind closed doors, the trustees of Princeton University decided the problem that had raised a rumpus extending all the way to Congress: Should the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the oldest student debating society in the U.S., be allowed to hear a speech this week by Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss? Though unanimously disapproving the invitation, the trustees answered yes by a 26-4 vote. The society, they explained, obviously had no "subversive intent.' Therefore the trustees had decided to "refrain from authoritarian censorship.'' P: The University of Illinois announced that it had expelled 23 students for cheating--one for breaking into a professor's room and stealing an accounting exam, two for mimeographing the exam, all three for selling copies for $5 apiece, and 20 more for buying or using the copies. Total profit of the black-marketeers when caught after one mistakenly tried to sell an exam to a fraternity house adviser: $87.

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