To the Editor of the Crimson:

The debate over American foreign policy so earnestly being carried on throughout the nation is with full justification. The decision is vital to the future of all the United States represents.

To extend full material aid to England and to pass the Lease-Lend Bill entails a risk of war; but to stand idly by while England succumbs or surrenders to the so-called "New Order" entails a far greater risk; the risk of having taken the wrong path and realized it too late.

Hitler's "New Order," like the burning religion of Islam, embodies a revolutionary idea, but it is a negative revolution seeking to destroy individual liberties, to destroy Christian religion, to destroy the spirit of democracy. Hitler's idea is an explosive idea, an expanding idea, an all-enveloping idea. Hitler and his followers have in their explosive idea the will to eliminate America as the strong symbol of an opposing idea. If England falls they will have the means also.

Whither, America? During the past years we, on the side-lines, have criticized the democracies for not halting aggression sooner, by war if necessary; we have criticized Sweden for not aiding Finland. Turkey for not aiding Greece; we, on the side-lines, have criticized others for not fighting our battle!

This is our battle, it is our war if anything which America stands for is worth fighting for. Let us end our hypocrisy, Let us demonstrate that the American idea is more explosive than Hitler's.

The price of war is great, cruelly great. The price of surrender, of ignominy, of surrender of the idea which is and can be America, is much greater. Such is our choice. Let us accept this war as our own. Let us, the United States of America, formally declare war on Nazi Germany and the other members of Hitler's Unholy Alliance. W. Milbank Pillsbury '42,   Stanwood Kenyon '43,   Alan F. Clifford '41.