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To the Editor of the Crimson:

In the February 6 edition of The Crimson there appeared a letter urging that the Embargo be lifted. I should like to take exception to that letter on grounds which hitherto have not been sufficiently stressed.

Although the argument that any shipments of arms to Spain would now be of but slight avail is cogent, it is not complete. The positive evil of such shipments would be that they would prolong the war. I can hardly think that the Loyalist government is completely unbiased in its estimate of the outcome of the struggle. That government and those who support it may feel that it is better to die fighting in the defence of their cause than to submit tamely to the possible oppressions of General Franco's government. Though that attitude is a brave one, it would be neither sensible nor even praiseworthy . . .

No matter how severe may be the rigors of Franco's regime, I can hardly see the point of aggravating such rigors by prolonging a war which, in the opinion of most, has already been lost . . . Therefore, I oppose a petition of which the utility is extremely problematical and the immediate results unquestionably undesirable. Alan. J. Ansen, '42