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To the Editor of the Crimson:

According to the Student Opinion Surveys and your editorial of April 14th, American students hope to save democracy by stopping Hitler. . We were supposed to have saved it in 1918. The new crop of totalitarian states stretching from Russia to Germany was the saving. Of course, if we are good myth-makers and word-twisters, we can believe in the democracy existing in Russia, Poland and Rumania today.

What we saved and helped enlarge was the French and British world hegemony. People say Nazis and Fascists must have myths. In the next war American soldiers will need myths, because that is the form of democracy they will be fighting for in Europe. Perhaps one result will be a Communistic Germany or further additions to the British colonial democracy. Such facts would not be myths. Neither would they be democracy. John Hastings '40.