Write and Wrong

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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

It seems almost incredible that the CRIMSON should take the radical stand expressed in the Saturday issue in questioning the decision of the University to exclude the names of the German dead from the war-memorial. All same people know that the World War was "the war to end war", "to make the world safe for democracy" Why should a memorial be dedicated to men who fought against these principles and contrary to the will of God (as expounded in all good American chapels and churches)? Certainly the people of this country can not have sunk so low in these last ten years as to feel that there is the least shadow of doubt as to who started the war and who was right. After all, this memorial is to be raised as much in memory of the spirit and righteousness of the war as to the memory of those who lost their opportunity of life "to make the world safe for democracy." When one looks today at our great democracy, controlled by the American Legion, straining every nerve to establish a competent mechanism to insure world peace (except in cases of national honor and naval parity), then certainly no one can question the value of those sacrificed lives. Can the names of those mistaken men who fought for a foreign monarch and German Kultur be connected in any way with those who died for "the great cause?" It is hoped the CRIMSON will change its standpoint and try and see this affair in the same light as the University authorities. Robert F. Evans '33.