Conservatives

To the Editors of the Crimson:

In his article "Reminder, not Revelation" (March 20) William E. McKibben observes that "when the crackdown began in Warsaw, it was the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee that threw together a protest meeting, not the Conservative Club." I should like to make two comments. First, the Conservative Club held a rally in December of 1980, protesting the Soviets' occupation of Afghanistan and calling attention to their intervention, in Poland. Only when that intervention had become so obvious that the left could no longer ignore it did DSOC hold its rally. Second, the coalition of leftists that staged the rally of which Mr. McKibben speaks would not allow the Conservative Club to participate. They claimed that we were not really concerned about Poland, that we would merely use the opportunity to say something nasty about the Russians. But as Professor Baranczak later observed, anyone who is anti-Soviet is automatically pro-Polish. Christopher S. Forman '83   President, H-R Conservative Club