To the Editors of the Crimson:

The violent attack on Mr. Roosevelt, which Mr. Warner made in the columns of your paper this morning, is, in the opinion of some members of the University, uncalled for under the circumstances.

On the twenty-first of last month a few men wrote as members of Harvard University, calling on all Harvard men to oppose the government's stand on the Venezuelan question.

Mr. Roosevelt, as an old Harvard man, thought that he had a right to express an opinion on the subject and did so. Mr. Warner calls this muzzling the University. Apart from telling us that he has nothing to say of the significance of the Monroe Doctrine, the gist of Mr. Warner's argument is, that Mr. Roosevelt objects to any criticism of our government's conduct of our foreign affairs, as being disloyal. It is difficult to see how any man who has read Mr. Roosevelt's communication can find grounds for supporting such an assertion.

The letter to which he took exception was by no means a criticism of our government's position; it said nothing at all about the merits of the question. "We assert," it says, "that it is a duty entailed upon us as citizens of the United States to do everything in our power to oppose the war spirit so rampant now." Now if Mr. Warner or any other man can show us that the stand taken by the United States on this question is wrong he ought to do so and thus prove Mr. Roosevelt to be wrong. The trouble is that he fights shy of the main question.

All members of the University recognize the horrors and suffering which war would cause our country and regret the possibility of waging war for a third time with the mother country. I am sure, however, that most members of the University believe that we should not let questions of expediency outweigh the consideration of what is due our national honor.

F. G. MCKEAN, JR.