To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Professor Elliott makes himself a mighty strategic position from which to sling low punches at the Chicago Student Conference and the International Union of Students. If you dare to disagree, it makes you either a "Red" or worse yet "naive." But too much honest work and thought and hope have gone into the Chicago and the Prague Conferences, a little of it mine, to allow Elliott to get away with an attack that is ignorant, prejudiced, and untrue.

It is not true that the IUS is "Kremlin dominated." The British National Union of Students, certainly nobody's potsy, was in on building IUS from the first. The Executive Committee is not 3 to 1 composed of Reds, or Red-controlled. As to Elliott's squawk that the U. S. has only one man on the executive, how in the devil many should we have on a 17-man committee which represents 36 nations?

In the IUS, American students will associate with Reds. Everybody concerned knows this. They will also associate with laborite, socialist, Christian democrat, Kuomintang, Congress Party, Moslem, anarchist, and every other conceivable kind of student, except Fascist, against whom we all have rather a prejudice. The IUS is a little United Nations, and everybody is in it, even Russians.

All of this throws Elliott into a panic: American university students must be isolated from the real world until they have at least their Ph.D., to suit him. All the usual warnings against Communist domination serve Elliott as trimming for this otherwise unpalatable idea. But American students will reject the idea that they should leave all contact with the outside world to the wiser heads of Connally and Vandenberg. They have the "naive" idea that the answer to world problems is not the atom bomb and the man-made plague. They will be wary of anyone who tries to fool them. That includes the Vogis of the Government Department as well as the Commissars. Professor Elliott would do us all a service to get an honest idea of what actually happened at Prague, of what the IUS really is. Allen H. Barton '45.