Five Points for Non-Intervention

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

May I venture to state some of the questions which, in my opinion, should satisfactorily be answered before the people of this country enter the war or lend more money overseas.

1) Are the conservative policies of Chamberlain to be considered as an effort that failed, a series of more mistakes, or are they a deliberate conduct of affairs which is contrary to the interests of the masses? If so, what guarantee is there that the war is not waged for the same reasons as those which made the conquest of Ethiopia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, as well as the Spanish War possible?

2) Is the fight now going on directed against fascism? If so, is it not necessary to condemn fascism without equivocation to resist it effectively? Are not half-hearted measures fatal, as they are doomed to failure and hasten the extension to the rest of the world of the social and economic system which already exists in Germany, Italy, and Spain?

3) Whereas budget balancing has been invoked in connection with labor appropriations and social improvements, will the same argument be used in debating the war budget? Or is it that there is always enough money for a war, never enough to alleviate the sufferings of the workers, the plight of the unemployed, the fate of the great mass of the nation?

4) Whereas the English war budget has been considered insufficient, whereas England still owes a large debt to this country, will not the people of the United States bear a financial burden imposed upon them by the British ruling class?

5) Remembering that the results of the war of 1914 led Italy and Germany into fascism, with the connivance or toleration of the victors, may one ask what is going to prevent the world from resorting to fascism after this war? Impoverished countries will need increased taxation and financial levies. Will not an increased governmental power be necessary which, with the cooperation of big business men and industrialists (ef. Thyssen in Germany), will impose the new social order, regulate human activity, and limit individual freedom? Marcel Francon, Instructor in Romance Languages.