Foreign News: Difficult

Should Germans be invited to next year's meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Oxford? It was a difficult question, and one which would have taxed to the uttermost the adroitness of the Association's President, H.R.H. Edward of Wales.

Fortunately for him, it is a cherished prerogative of constitutional monarchs to leave decisions to others. So—without troubling the traveling President—the question was taken under advisement by a committee, which reported 21-13 in favor of issuing the invitations.

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