To the Editors of the Crimson:

As the Nazis advance deeper into the Caucasus, it becomes more and more evident that WE ARE LOSING THE WAR. We cannot expect the Russian Armies to battle the common foe alone forever. Only the combined armies of all the United Nations can stop Hitler. These armies must be put into action before Russia is lost. An immediate attack upon the Nazis in the west, despite its tremendous cost, despite its chances of being thrown back, is an absolute necessity. For the sacrifices entailed in sitting tight and letting the most powerful of the Allied armies be reduced to fighting purely defensive actions somewhere in the Urals, are overwhelmingly greater.

What does this mean to Harvard students? It means that we cannot afford to do as little as we have been doing. We may be far from the battle fronts, but we cannot sit this war out. A great offensive in Europe will require great sacrifices from us. We must make those sacrifices--give our blood, give up luxuries and amusements to buy war bonds, give up our leisure to do war relief and war service work, and stop crabbing about gas rationing and compulsory athletics. Harvard must do what critics of liberal education have said was impossible; totally mobilize behind the war effort. Allen Barton '45,   D. P. Rudd '45.