Coolidge, MacLeish Ask Asia Evacuation

A group of citizens including Charles A. Coolidge '17, a member of the Corporation, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, yesterday sent President Truman a telegram demanding "a ceasefire and withdrawal of all foreign trops from Korea."

The telegram said there was no choice but to "break out of the Kremlin trap designed to pin us down in Asia, leaving Europe and the Middle East Defenseless."

Free elections in Korea supervised by a neutral country; a hands off policy for Chinese affairs, including Formosa; foregoing German rearmament and stationing a 20 division Angle-American garrison in France and the low countries, supported by French forces of equal strength were other recommendations urged in the telegram.