It is noted, from a card in the advertising columns of today's CRIMSON, that the International Labor Defense is sponsoring a Victory Ball in celebration of the release of the anti-Hanfy demonstrators.
Dancing to our mind, has always had a slight capitalistic connotation--victory dancing above all. But there is nothing, to our limited knowledge, in any possible interpretation of the Marxian dialectic, which makes that recreation incompatible with the ideals of the I.L.D. What bothers us in the matter is the name of the hall where the dance is to be held. It seems to us that a place combining the names of Ritz and Plaza should be completely uncanonical and definitively heretical.
But perhaps the choice of the Ritz Plaza hall was only in the nature of a friendly gesture. We think it would be very nice if the Friends of the New Germany would reciprocate by giving a dance at Communist headquarters.
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