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LIBERAL CLUB'S HITLER MEETING ATTRACTS 60

Chairman Attacks Crimson Editorial For Mistaken Principles--Starving Germans Called Cause of Disorder

"I cannot understand why the CRIMSON permitted two such articles as were printed yesterday, to be printed at all," said H. E. Robbins '35, chairman of the Liberal Club which met last night to discuss the Hitler movement in Germany. Robbins announced "I am greatly dismayed at the editorial which appeared in the CRIMSON yesterday concerning the 'Scotch Liberalism.'

"While I will not give myself the pleasure of quoting directly from the article" Robbins said, "nevertheless I consider it needless to say that we disagree with the attitude manifested by the CRIMSON editor in the editorial." It is clear that the purposes and aims of the National Students League and the Liberal Club of Harvard were misunderstood by the author of the article. We aim to discuss affairs of interest to the members of the Club, and those outsiders who may be interested, from a purely impartial view. I will not consider whether or not the editors of the CRIMSON deem Hitler's actions worthy of condemnation."

Mr. Robbins insisted that the mention made of the proposed poker game in case the attendance at the meeting would not be as large as was expected was quite stupid. About sixty person were present last night.

F. E. Manuel 3G, the first speaker, discussed "Hitler's Rise to Power" from an historical view. He was quite vehement in expressing the opinion that the mistreatment of the Jews in Germany by the Hitler regime was merely an age old vent; that it was really a symbol of the economic struggle which was going on in Germany today, as well as in every country in the world. He said that the Nazi regime really was decreed in the summer of 1932, when Von Papen, who was then in power, attempted to seize the power of the Prussian state. When Sevening, the Prussian leader, refused him this power, Von Papen said that "If this is a question of right--then he is willing of agree beforehand as to the amount of violence necessary to be undergone to save his face."

The real problem, it was brought out, was not that the Jews are being oppressed, but that seven millions of Germany's unemployed are starving.

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