The DP Project

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

This is to inform you that the statement of NSA delegate, Edward F. LaCroix '48, in Friday's CRIMSON regarding the Harvard Displaced Persons Project was unauthorized and, in one respect, factually incorrect.

LaCroix made his remarks in an informal chat with one of your reporters and apparently did not realize they would be printed. Since the NSA is only in charge of national D.P. planning, and not the administration of the project at Harvard, it is surprising that the CRIMSON did not seek verification of the story from the International Activities Committee of the Student Council, which is in charge of local D.P. planning.

LaCroix's statement that, "Provost Buck is willing to waive tuition for seven displaced persons to enter the college next fall," is, at the moment, nothing more than wishful thinking. The International Activities Committee hopes that the college will grant financial assistance to displaced persons in their first year in the United States. This would be done from special funds, however, and there would certainly be no "waiver." Provost Buck has not yet issued a policy decision on this matter, and when he does it, it will come from his office.

The other printed statements of LaCroix's were directly derived from my report to an NSA meeting Thursday afternoon. . .

It was not my intention to withhold facts from the CRIMSON, but merely to present them at a time when, in conjunction with Provost Buck's statement of policy, they would give the undergraduate body the clearest picture of what is going on. . . Rov M. Goodman '51,   Chairman, International Activities   Committee Harvard Student Council