To the Editors of the Summer News: 
The Harvard Summer New coverage  the Harvard Socialist Club meeting, which took place July 15 in Lamont Library, presented, I feel, a very unfair  of the evening's program.  Mr.  Valdex, General Secretary of the  Socialist Alliance, was so misrepresented by your reporter, Reed  that I find it hard to believe that  Bates was acting in good faith in  reporting. shall list and correct some of the  which I have found in this short circle: 1) Mr. Valdex's speech concerned  America, and yet the fat print  the article refers to the Negro problem in the U.S.A.  This is probably only remark made by Mr. Valdex  did not relate directly to the question of revolution in South America. 2) Mr. Valdex did not claim that the  of the Negroes "fulfills Marxist  as you allege--he remarked,  this is close paraphrasing, "The Negro uprising in the U.S.A. may be the  indication of deep social unrest generated among working classes in the  due to economic stagnation.  We  wait a while longer and see." 3) Valdex did advocate the formation  independent Negro party, but said nothing about its being Socialist in  as you maintain.  Valdex did not predict that success failure of revolution in Venezuela will  "wholly on what happens as a  of these (Negro) movements in  U.S."  How patently absurd this moment is!  Quite the opposite, he  that a revolution will occur South America independent of what  in the U.S. Herbert Gintis.
              
              
                
              
              
              
              
            
            
            
            
              
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