THE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN THE SAAR.

The article focuses on the educational development in the Saar River Valley in France and Germany. No area in Europe, not even the Ruhr, suffered the physical devastation to be seen in the Saar in 1946. Over 65 percent of the houses, 60 percent of the factories and more than half the schools were ruined. But now, like everywhere else where the German lives and works, the people of the Saar also believe that they are on the march to industrial and commercial ascendancy. Between six and seven hundred entirely new schools and additional annexes to schools have been built since 1947. A magnificent Arts and Crafts school, ranging from ballet and weaving to sculpture and photography, is nearing completion. The vast College for Domestic Science, attended by some three thousand female students per week, has no equal in this country, either in buildings or in up to date equipment. Saarbrücken, a university in Saar is the first European university situated there. The rector, M. Joseph Francis Angelloz, is a Frenchman, a Catholic from Haute Savoie, with a brilliant academic career to his credit and one closely allied with international problems. He sees his task, as first head of the University of the Saar, as one based on Franca-German understanding and the ultimate attainment of European unity.