– Yale University only offered children of Oxford and Cambridge university staff an evacuation to the U.S.
– One evacuee has raised questions about the experience asking did they want ‘to save the gene pool?’
– Yale’s president James Angell was ‘a fanatic eugenicist in the worst meaning of that word’
Jim Reilly
Mail Online
February 13, 2012
Yale University has been accused of trying to create a super race of British children during War World Two, it emerged today.
The university offered to evacuate children of Oxford University staff in 1940, but it appears there could have been a sinister motive behind their seemingly kind offer.
There are now concerns that leaders of the eugenics movement at Yale University may have extended the invitation because they planned to repopulate a devastated Britain with a race of intellectually superior children.
‘Was Yale hoping to save the offspring of the British academic elite, protecting those 125 children because it saw them as future leadership class, especially deserving of preservation? asks Jonathan Freedland in The Sunday Telegraph.
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