To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Your editorial on Frau lise Koch displays a rather startling naivete. You seem to forget that General Clay was a partner in an American banking firm before World War II and that this company provided the Nazis with American patents necessary for war-making. Perhaps you have also forgotten that many other American firms helped out the Nazi government in its early, and sometimes in its later, stages. Henry Ford, the anti-semitic, was sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and his bully-boys, using his vast resources to aid the latter. A picture of Ford hung in Hitler's office.

No, it is perfectly understandable that the American Military Government in Germany is not being very harsh with the Nazis, who after all rose to power only because the West realized that they might be used as a buffer against the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the businessmen of the West failed to forces that the megalomaniac Hitler would turn not only against Russia, as planned, but also against the Western powers.

The primary task of the American Government in Germany is to re-establish that country as a buffer against Russia. Nazism is only a side issue with General Clay. are more important than people, anyway. Judson Wood '50