To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Gerry reservation was a prize blunder, a true masterpiece of diplomacy. The friendship of an ancient and powerful ally, and the reputation of the United States as a nation with at least sensible ideas of international relations; these are cast aside.

The friendship of France has already been alienated by an atrocious blunder by the President. We must now lose the amity of Great Britain by a gross interference in her private affairs. The ancient rules of international relationship require that nations, at least officially, attend to their own affairs, and allow their sister nations to do likewise. Many Englishmen feel that we have worked great injustice in our negro problem. How would we welcome British interference on this subject?

The crudity of this blunder must be twice as obvious to the learned gentlemen who committed it: Why did they do it? Sympathy for Ireland may have prejudiced some Senators, but for the most part we fear there was another motive. Pressure from constituencies of Irish complexion must have drive these men to lose sight of national interests in personal ones. C. E. WORKS 1L.   V. E. MACY, JR. '20.   C. R. STEEDMAN '20.