Crimson efforts to remove Big Three debate laurels from the Bulldog's brow will reach a climax tonight in the tradition-clad, ivy-ladeh Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate.

After a week of tryouts and of competition for team positions, six Debate Council members, including the two Coolidge prize winners, will attempt to out-argue the Bengal and Eli orators in a discussion of the topic: "Resolved, That an alliance with Great Britain offers the United States the best measure of security."

Yale Contest Here

J. Philip Bahn '49, Robert M. Beren '47, and Roy G. Clouse '50, who will uphold the affirmative, face a Yale trio in Lowell House Junior Common Room at 8 o'clock, while Hugh M. Hill '48, Edwin J. Jacob '47, and Howard L. Swartzman '47 will travel down to New Jersey to defend the negative.

Simultaneously, a team from Princeton will journey to New Haven to complete the third leg of the contest.

In last year's H-Y-P debate on the guaranteed annual wage plan, Yale beat both the Crimson and the Tigers to win the Big Three championship, while the Debate Council managed to salvage second place by vanquishing Princeton.

A debate with Brown on the topic: "Resolved, That labor should be given a direct share in the management of industry," which was scheduled for last night, had to be called off when the Bruin duo failed to appear for the contest.

Beren, president of the Council, asserted that the debaters would not claim a default victory in the match until they "learn the circumstances that caused the non-appearance of the Brown team."