Communication

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Noble as it is the spirit in which the CRIMSON undertook to reassert some old and well established politico-philosophical beliefs, yet it may not be quite safe to try to fit them into the recent case of the execution of the Greek officials. What took place in the Near East within the last few months is utterly beyond reach of even man's imagination. It will take more than a reading of newspaper dispatches to enable one to express a helpful opinion as to the justice of the Greek executions. Should it not take at least a study of the organization of the Court which tried the case and a study of the official report of the proceedings before we reach the conclusion that "their death was brought about by a mad, mistaken patriotism on the part of a people gone hysterical"? Is it not a cardinal prerequisite for any sort of constructive thinking to ascertain the facts and not reach a decision before that has been accomplished? It is easy of course to pronounce our ex cathedra judgments in a case, if we can presuppose the existence of certain facts a, b, and c. But is it not a brutum fulmen and a perversion of college thinking to pronounce judgments in a concrete case like the Greek executions where the facts at least to us are x, y, and z? It is this fear which prompts me to be sceptical and which at present does not allow me to join in the CRIMSON'S choral indignation against the Greek people. It is a noble thing to feel indignant at an apparent injustice, but it is a nobler thing to be sure of the injustice before the indignation. CHAS. G. CHAOUSH, RAPHAEL uL. December 5, 1922.