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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY "BREAKS" WITH NAZI STATE

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MORGANTOWN, West Vs. Students of West Virginia University "severed relations" with Germany in a full-page editorial in the campus newspaper, "The Daily Athenaeum," after being termed "impudent, shameless, and sillly" by "Das Schwarze Korps," Nazi storm troop organ.

A cable was sent to the Nazi newspaper, which objected to an "every man a Fuehrer" party held here by Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity last November 11 and photographically reported by "Life" magazine. It read:

"Unverschamet, schamlos, albern (Impudent, shameless, and silly) West Virginia students sever diplomatic relations with Germany. Prosit!"

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