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Bacteriology Department
Melbourne University
Vic., Australia

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Dear Mr. Hunter: BY 3/ o4
My wife and I are down here in Australia for a brief tour ona

Rimbxr Fulhright grant. While we were in Brisbane, a few days ago, we

Came across this article (clipping enclosed) which we thought would

interest you and the readers of your editorial and university news
columns. ;

The article speaks for itself & has an interesting contrast to the
role of the University of Wisconsin in the life of our state. Queensland

University is a State xe institution, almost entirely financed out of

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tax revenues, Several academic people that we talked to indicated that
the university policy of the previous Labor government was ons of tha
issues involved in its recent upset, though probably the most important
was simply a split in its ranks, us much on personal as on doctringaire
&ssues. Nonetheless, the overturn was hardly less astonishing than |
Bill Proxmire's recent success.

One moral is that, in various circumstances, academic freedom can
be imperilled by political interzference from the Left as much as from
the Right.

Yours sincerely,
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Toppa etersbte & “Ge
i Esther H. Lederberg
¥.S. If you should make any writeup on this,
could you send us a clipping as we have temporarily
suspended our subscription to the C.T, Address:
Prof. J. Lederberg
507 Bugenia Ave
Madison 5 Wis