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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:--

The Japanese are in Southeast Siberia; in what force and with what intentions seems to be a subject unworthy of discussion. That the highly efficient Imperial Japanese Government is acting without definite aim is improbable. If the aim is insidious, then the sooner the western democracies come to an understanding with their eastern ally the better. If it is not, an enlightenment will only serve to dispell any unjust suspicions that may exist. Whether the Japanese purposes are legitimate and desirable or not, we ought to be well aware of what they are, for the future history of the world as well as that of the Far East will bear the marked impression of the results of the present policy.

At our intellectual centres, especially at so cosmopolitan a university as Harvard, such blindness to what is going on, such lack of interest, and such lack of information and suggestive discussion is far from salutary. As a definite step to illuminate the question for ourselves and perhaps for others, may we not suggest that several lectures be given by a member of the Faculty familiar with the situation, and by some prominent Japanese? In any case, something of the sort ought to be done at Harvard to clear up a situation whose very laziness forbodes evil. A. E. MIRSKY '22,   M. L. ANSON '22,   F. OTTO KOENIG JR. '22.