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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:
As a Faculty sponsor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament I read with dismay this morning the account of the self-styled "amusingly engineered coup" which, in the fashion of Communist seizure of organizations, turned the Committee into its opposite. This kind of a perversion of democratic processes seems to me neither amusing nor tolerable, whether it be carried out by revolutionary or by reactionary intriguers.
Since I presided at the public meeting of the Committee this fall at which Professor Kissinger spoke I might add that I did not understand him to condemn disarmament as "an impractical idealistic impossibility." On the contrary, it is my memory that he urged a continuation of disarmament negotiations even though he had no great faith that spectacular results could be achieved. Rupert Emerson, Professor of Government.
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