The Editor of the CRIMSON:

The Holyoke Bookshop, which has a natural concern with its own financial problems, is surprised to find this interest shared by Councilor Sullivan and the CRIMSON to the extent of three news stories in a single week. The imaging the accounts of red nests and Moscow gold and police visits (no such police visit as the CRIMSON describes over occurred) are amusing, do doubt, but our laughter becomes a little wry when we see how this complements on a potty local scale the attempts of the Dies Committee to frighten liberals and progressives into inactivity and silence.

Mr. Sullivan says our book sales are not sufficient to cover our expenses. This is quite true. Much of our income has been derived from the motion pictures and lectures the Bookshop has sponsored. This is the source of Mr. Sullivan's "Soviet gold." He says we pay too high rent. This is also true, and as a result the Bookshop is going to move at the end of the month to a less expensive location.

.... We do not believe the people of this community will be deterred by Mike Sullivan from reading what they want to read, hearing what they want to hear, seeing what they want to see. If the Holyoke Bookshop were to close, a whole range of social and economic thought would no longer be readily available in Cambridge. At a time of crisis when so many ideas are being reassessed, we feel that thin would be a serious intellectual loss. Bebe Stearns, for the Holyoke Bookshop.

(Ed Note: The CRIMSON erred in giving the impression that there had been a police raid on the Holyoke Bookshop. It has since been learned that, instigated by patriotic Councilor Michael A. Sullivan, a plain clothes policeman visited the shop but found nothing objectionable. The Holyoke Bookshop is moving next month to new quarters on Plympton Street).