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Taking recent criticism to heart, the Harvard Student Union has decided to become a parliamentary body" and is going to baptise its new brain-child with an open forum tonight n Phillips Brooks House. All members of the college, who are interested, are invited to attend this meeting and participate in the discussion. The conclusions and resolutions reached will be determined from the combined votes of members and those just "auditing" the affair, thus giving more weight to the final decisions. Provided that enough bright, enthusiastic young men filled with a desire to correct the many evils of this wicked world attend the meeting, this new idea should prove a howling success and give the Union an new lease on life.

A resolution that President Conant reconsider his decision to send Harvard delegates to the Heldelberg 550th anniversary in view of the recent revelations of Hitlerite propaganda in connection with the celebration, will be put before the House. This resolution will be carefully discussed, and anyone who wishes to exercise his lungs may speak. The Union, however, doesn't seem to realize that it is a little too late to withdraw Harvard's delegates from the Heldelberg gathering, and it presumes that President Conant and the Corporation accepted the invitation to participate in the celebration entirely unfamiliar with the existing situation in Germany. To withdraw from the 550th anniversary celebration of a University which has stood, until recently, for the very best that education has to offer, would be an act of supreme discourtesy to Heidelberg and to the reputation that it has built up over five centuries. The Harvard Student Union is merely trying to make an issue of a non-political problem, because it is unable to resist any opportunity to take a crack at the Germany Government of today.

Although the world may not approve of the Hitler regime, care should be taken not to show a puerile hostility of this sort which will only end with the result that international relations, already filled with suspicion and hatred, will be aggravated. No one is so easily duped that he believes that the Hitler Government will not make the best propaganda use of the coming Heidelberg affair, but it does not follow that withdrawal from the celebration is necessary merely because the element of propaganda will be present.

The Harvard Student Union will place itself in a very ridiculous position tonight if it carries out its intention of asking President Conant to reconsider his decision. But after all there is a certain amount of self-importance to be gained from cheap publicity.