Plaque Applause

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

From an article published in The New York Times of December 9, 1951, it appears that you objected in an editorial that the name of Adolf Sannwald, a German chaplain, and a former student of Harvard University was included on a memorial dedicated to the 697 students, alumni and faculty who died in Word War II.

It seems to me that it was the intention of the University Corporation to list all students who died in World War II--and to honor those who were Americans. This is precisely what they did: In including the German chaplain's name they lived up to the accuracy of the list; in adding to his name "enemy casualty" they made it quite clear that he is not one of those who died for our ideals.

I believe therefore that even from your point of view you have no reason to complain. The University Corporation was to my mind narrow-minded enough when they added "enemy casualty." I should have thought that the "American Ideal" (which you make such a point to hold up) is broad enough to include the German chaplain's name without "enemy casualty." Arthur Freud