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To the Editor of the Crimson:

Your editorial in today's Crimson (Jan.8) completely ignores the constructive and positive program for peace adopted unanimously by the recent Convention of the American Student Union at Madison. This program recognizes that powerful forces have already begun to drag us toward war on both the Eastern and Western fronts and specifically condemns all attempts to tie us to one side in the European struggle. Instead of jumping on the band wagon of those forces interested in an anti-Soviet war, the ASU set forth a progressive program for "a forward-moving democracy."

Since when is the proof of the progressiveness of an organization to be found in its adoption of resolutions condemning the U.S.S.R? The Gottlieb amendment for condemnation of "Russian aggression" was fought and defeated on the Convention floor on the basis of its effect in bringing the United States nearer to war. The call for a national referendum of the ASU membership at this time merely distracts attention from the constructive peace program to concentrate on a minor and "moral issue." And to raise the cry of Communist domination is to join the Dies Committee and all others interested in splitting and disrupting the progressive forces fighting for peace.

One of the principal weaknesses of the peace forces in 1916-17 was the lack of a concerted national organization fighting for peace. Is the Harvard Student Union to forget the lesson of the Last War and begin a movement to disrupt the outstanding national progressive peace group of the day? William Rossmoore '40   Member of the Harvard Delegation to the ASU Convention.