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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:
The matter of Mr. Amfitheatrof's quotation (in his article on the Salzburg Seminar) should be cleared up. I am the American student he refers to; but the sentiment he baldly states is not mine. When he visited me to discuss the Seminar, I offered to entertain with him an account of my opinions after a summer abroad. Our conversation, I said, was off the record; he asked that it be on so that he might write a fair complete, constructive article, I agreed. In the course of my monologue, I said that thought it seemed inconceivable and illiberal, the Germans whom I had met at the Seminar struck me as unpleasant, stiff, humorless people; and that this, with other things I saw and heard during my trip, convinced me that Germany is an exceedingly dangerous nation. Mr. Amfitheatrof reshaped what I said, which just now I will defend against anyone, into quotation that his caused such distress.
I hope the thing is settled. Irving Veekowitz '53
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