Professors, Council Head Voice Harvard Views in 'Town Hall of the Air' Broadcast

Three professors and the president of the Student Council gave ten million Americans Harvard's view of the war in last night's Town Meeting of the Air broadcast from Sanders Theatre, as they demanded intensified effort and sacrifices by every individual and group in the nation.

Thomas Matters '43 climaxed the speeches on "What Price Victory" by pleading for a comprehensive plan to put college students in their correct spot in the war effort. The college man will give everything it takes to bring victory, he said.

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But the student has not been told the basic fact: does the country want him to stay in classes or enlist? "If we should be drafted, we want to be drafted now." Matters stated, deploring the lack of direction. "Until they tell us, we cannot be 100 per cent behind the war effort."

Introduced by Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, who served as moderator, C. Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, started the national town meeting by calling for inter-allied co-operation in defeating the centralized aggressor. "We must not wait four years for a second Foch," he said. At the same time, the home front must see individual advantage subordinated to the common good.

Hocking Asks Sincerity

William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, called for a "painful sincerity in our talk about freedom" as the keynote of America's moral approach to the war. "A war to restore the status quo can arouse no vast enthusiasm", he said. America is fighting for "another chance to give democracy a serious trial," Rocking said. And this freedom which we speak about "goes for America, for China, and also for India. This nation's greatest contribution to the world, according to him, is a "duck's back for shedding cynicism," and an ability to make idealism work.

Optimistically predicting a post-war "per capita real income 35 to 50 percent higher than before the war," Alvin H. Hansen, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, stated that far stiffer taxes and compulsory savings are vitally necessary to bring about victory.

In answer to questions from the floor, Brinton disagreed with Hocking's statement that negotiations on Indian independence must be reopened. Any retreat on Britain's part would be dangerous, he said