To the Editor of the Crimson:

In your editorial of April 23 on the Peace Strike you state that "any person desiring peace for the United States must be forced to express opposition to the use of the armed forces of the United States to convoy ships to Britain." There are many of us who desire peace for the United States but are convinced that peace for this counry is in the long run impossible if British resistance to Hitler is broken by the submarine blockade. We are therefore convinced that refusal to convoy is not a means of avoiding war but rather of postponing war until a time when the United States would have to fight unaided and at the greatest possible disadvantage. Not to produce munitions for Britain would be stupidity. But to produce the munitious and then sit idly by while Nazi submarines send the munitions to be bottom of the Atlantic would be insanity.

The recent Gallup poll shows that American public opinion now recognizes that the dangers which are involved in convoying are less than the danger which our country and our institutions would be in if Britain should be conquered. Seventy-one per cent of the voters favored convoying "if it appears certain that Britain will be defeated unless we use part of our Navy to protect ships going to Britain." I am reluctant to believe that the majority of Harvard undergraduates take a less realistic view of the situation. Professor E. Merrick Dodd, Jr. '10.