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To the Editor of the Crimson:

May I ask you to correct the opinion ascribed to me in the Crimson, February 25, 1939?

I believe that all discoveries and inventions which may be used for war, crime and other similar purposes should be kept secret, not only from the totalitarian countries but from all, except the government of this country and a limited circle of socially and morally sound specialists. They should be kept also secret from the allied foreign powers because today's friends may easily become tomorrow's enemies.

Other discoveries and inventions, and especially social science theories do not need this precaution. As most of the scientific theories in the field of the social sciences are critical in regard to the totalitarian theory and practice a dissipation of such sound theories among the Totalitarianists can only be beneficial. They may learn some common sense in this way. For this reason I would rather welcome and invite all the Totalitarianists to listen to to read, and to study the sound social science theories as much as they can. P. A. Sorokin.