WATSON'S STATEMENT

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I was interested to read in the CRIMSON that Dean Watson believes student revolt at Harvard is the work of "a very, very, tiny group of people, including two or three sons of active communists."

The son of a communist myself, I was brought up to know that it is unsafe, nearly suicidal, to speak against God, Mother, Apple Pie, and the Flag in America. I learned what it means to have one's career destroyed by one's beliefs. I learned that refusing to be an informer can be a felony. Not until 1963 did any member of my family forget the lessons Joseph McCarthy taught us so well.

Some of my best friends are the sons of liberal white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, though they haven't learned their lessons as well as we have. If Dean Watson is looking for radicals, he should look to them, for they still think it is safe to speak one's conscience in this country. Watson must only hope they will finally learn the true lesson of the American Experience under the Nixon-Humphrey-Wallace administration. Nicholas C. Arguimbau '71