LAW PROFESSOR HITS BUTLER; RATES FREEDOM OVER DEFENSE

Severely challenging the views held by President Butler of Columbia, a letter by E. Merrick Dodd, Jr. '10, professor of Law, and member of American Defense, Harvard Group, was summarized in yesterday's New York Times.

The letter, which is printed in full on page six of this issue, points out that although a university should aid and support the defense policies of the national government, it must in no way deny freedom of speech to those who disagree with this policy.

"Our universities are strongholds of American freedom," it writes. "If we fail to preserve freedom within academic walls, we shall fail to preserve it in the country at large. And . . . our defense will be surrender."