Debaters Will Argue War of Independence

The Harvard Debate Council seeks its first victory against international competition since the war tonight when it meets a team from Cambridge University, England, on the topic, "Was the American Revolution a Mistake?" The debate will be held in Sanders Theater at 8:30 p.m.

Edward F. Burke '50 and J. Philip Bahn '49, recently elected '49 Class Orator, will uphold the negative side of the question. According to a radio interview last night over WHRV, Burke and Bahn will emphasize the liberalizing and the equalizing aspects of the Revolution within the social structure of this country.

British View

The British debaters, Denzil J. Freeth and George Pattison, will discuss the benefits this country would have received if it had stayed within the Empire and waited for eventual liberalization.

Judges for the debate will be Ralph Lowell '12, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs of America and an Overseer of the University, George Minot, Managing Editor of the Boston Herald, and Charles Whitamore, Consul General in Boston for the British Crown.

Melvin L. Zurier '50, chairman of the debate and president of the Harvard Debating Council, said, last night that the Chicago Tribune's Eugene Griffin is expected to attend in his capacity as a reporter.

The debaters will be interviewed again at 4 p.m. today over WBMS.