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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Yesterday in a communication to the CRIMSON, Professor Ralph Barton Perry criticized Dr. Fosdick's denunciation of compulsory military training in Appleton Chapel on Sunday. In commenting on Dr. Fosdick's sermon, Professor Perry writes: "Pacifism combined with staying at home and playing safe I can understand; but pacifism combined with looking for trouble, with ideals of heroism and chivalry, is to my mind contradictory, confusing, and likely to lead in tragic consequences."

If we are to designate as pacifists all those men who are opposed to compulsory military training, we are beginning a glorification of the word "pacifism," a word odious to most Americans during the war. In this category of 'pacifists" we would then be obliged to put such men as Colonel Logan and Major-General Sherburne--they are opposed to military training. We think those gentlemen would resent such implication. Certainly their friends would.

Professor Perry thinks Dr. Fosdick inconsistent in denouncing compulsory military training, and at the same time advocating our accepting a mandate for Armenia. Is it reasonable to suppose in accepting the mandate for Armenia the United States must adopt for her own protection the same hateful method that Germany adopted in her project for world domination? We feel that such methods are not necessary or even desirable; that they are not true to the ideals of the Americanism of which we are proud. For a number of years England has exercised virtual mandates for India and in part for Egypt. England has not compulsory military training, nor is she thinking of adopting it.

Men who have studied the Armenian question declare that with the acceptance of a mandate for Armenia by the United States a relatively small body of armed forces could preserve order, and after a period be gradually withdrawn. Such action on our part would scarcely require compulsory military training.

In his sermon Dr. Fosdick did not advance any Quixotic ideas of knight er-rantry on the part of the United States. He did give expression to a type of splendid American which has been mighty in the past, and which we trust will be mighty in the future.  M. J. DONNER '21.  P. P. COOGIN '21.