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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The anomalous situation created by the affiliation of the Harvard Liberal Club with the National Student League should be called to the attention of the entire community. For thirteen years the Liberal Club has existed to serve three general purposes, to maintain a free and open forum for the discussion of the larger issues of public policy, as well as issues of University policy, to carry on a program of political and economic education with respect to the immediate problems of the day, and to provide a common medium for the expression of opinion in which all the progressive minded members of the University might share.

Inasmuch as the National Student League, although it may not be directly connected with any of the Communist parties, is in its philosophy, objectives, and tactics unmistakably Communist, the Liberal Club affiliated with it can no longer be liberal. The Club under Communist auspices will be unable honestly and effectively to carry out the purposes for which it was founded and in support of which several generations of undergraduates have shared in its activities.

The affiliation in effect implies that a majority of the active members of the Club subscribe to the tenets of Communism. The majority is likely to prove short lived, but in the meantime, as I do not believe in the inevitability of class struggle, deplore the program and tactics of the Communists, and cannot second the demands of the National Student League, it is impossible for me to continue as an officer of the Club, and I have resigned the secretaryship. John De Witt Norton '34.