To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Your editorial of October 28 entitled "A House Divided" has been called to any attention. Since you have included me in the list of those with divided most recently discovered weakness. The loyalties, I feel called upon to explain my own position, and wish also to take the opportunity to point out the gross misstatements of fact with regard to others.

Of the nine Faculty members named by you no loss than six are doing precisely what you ask-namely, taking full time leave from their teaching positions and devoting themselves exclusively to defense activities. My own Washington work has involved only a single journey of three days duration to the capital since the beginning of the academic year, and none of my Cambridge appointments have been missed on that account.

Perhaps a word should also be said of the spirit of your editorial. During the summer you have come to recognize that in other respects the nation can no longer afford a policy of "Business as Usual." Academicians are faced with the recognition of two urgent demands of the defense effort: the crying needs of the organization in Washington for specialized talent, and the basic but competing need of a maintaining our higher education intact so far as possible. Under these conditions is it not somewhat inappropriate for you to urge upon us a policy of "Education as Usual"? Lincoln Gordon '34,   Instructor in Government.