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THE MAIL

To the Editor of the Crimson:

A few weeks ago, public indignation was aroused against the Satevepost for printing Milton Mayer's vicious article, "The Case Against the Jew." Attacked on all sides, the Post was forced to run ads in the three big New York dailies, apologizing for the "misunderstanding" that the article was anti-Semitic. Many, however, in spite of the Post's Protestations of innocence, belive that the editors knew what they were doing all along, that this article was part of the Post's old line of defeatism and spreading of race hatred.

This belief seems to have been confirmed by a more recent article, a lying smear of organized labor. These are the most recent and the most striking examples of the Satevepost's irresponsible, ultra-reactionary editorial policy. They clinch our belief that the Post, beneath its mask of patriotism, is doing its bit for Hitler.

Last year the Crimson printed an ad of Laurence Dennis, noted fascist, but at the same time ran an editorial against him. A week ago the Crimson announced that it was to cooperate with the Post in a poll by which that magazine hoped the Post in a poll by which that magazine hoped to raise its slipping circulation. It seems to us that the Crimson should follow the precedent of the Laurence Dennis case by speaking out against the Satevepost and any other spokesmen of appeasement whose ads it may print. Allen Barton '45.   Didi Rudd '45.   Sam Stuart '45.

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