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The Mail

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Last spring the CRIMSON accused me editorially of a "casual blending of free enterprise, morality, religion, and salvation" in suggesting a "Free Enterprise Fund" to combat the Communistic influences at Harvard. They declined to publish my answer on the lame grounds that it would take up too much space. The real reason, I suspect, is that they feared to do so.

Now, however, they evince a curious disquietude at the series of Boston Post articles by John Fox on the same subject using a great deal more lineage than would be required for my rejected "defense" in order to express their concern. And they becloud the issue by dragging in phrases like "McCarthyism," "The Chicago Tribune of the East Coast," "Kremlin Newspapers in Hub Library," "The Harvard Study of Russia. . ." and name like McCarran, Hoyt, McCormick, Conant and others. Further, they talk all around the subject without attempting in any way, shape or manner to answer Mr. Fox's articles.

The charge is inherent in the title of the Post editorials; "Communism at Harvard."

Regardless (I almost wrote "irregardless"!) of Mr. Gwirtzman's purpose in devoting a full page to discredit the Post, the CRIMSON editors would do well to keep on studying the Post series (it will only cost them a nickel a day) and show in what respect there are error.

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There is Communism at Harvard--or there isn't. An individual professor is furthering the Communist cause--or he isn't. The situation meets with the majority of alumni approval--or it doesn't. Why not find out? And why not send a copy of your full page discussion of the Boston Post to the Daily Worker in New York asking for their views? I'll wager a one year's subscription to the American Mercury Magazine for the CRIMSON Editorial Board that the Daily Worker will approve of your stand. Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. '29   Elm Street, Concord, Mass.

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