Letter from the Continent: A Nasty Shock

National Review, in its June 15 issue, published the results of a poll taken among college students at twelve representative institutions and found that in the eight years since the last poll American students had been effectively radicalized. Is this true everywhere? From the stories in recent years of student riots and demonstrations in Europe and the Far East (Japan), one would be inclined to think so but two recent polls in West Germany, about which Mr. Kuehnelt-Leddihn reports on this page, tend to discount the universality of our findings.

Germany has recently been startled by indications that the generation now finishing its secondary schooling is not, as had been thought, moving further left but is in fact reacting against the permissiveness of the last decade in interesting, and somewhat frightening, directions.

EK

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National Review, in its June 15 issue, published the results of a poll taken among college students at twelve representative institutions and found that in the eight years since the last poll American students had been effectively radicalized. Is this true everywhere? From the stories in recent years of student riots and demonstrations in Europe and the Far East (Japan), one would be inclined to think so but two recent polls in West Germany, about which Mr. Kuehnelt-Leddihn reports on this page, tend to discount the universality of our findings.

Germany has recently been startled by indications that the generation now finishing its secondary schooling is not, as had been thought, moving further left but is in fact reacting against the permissiveness of the last decade in interesting, and somewhat frightening, directions.