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Eliot House: Mr. Merriman expressed his opposition to the employment of student waiters on the grounds that "these sophomore puppies don't know how to treat servants. This kind of work would subject the boys who are waiting on table to the worst kind of insults they could receive. Frankly, I do not like...
...Merriman concluded by saying, "There is feeling enough against Hitler in Germany so that if he fails anywhere, the tide will turn against him. There are some human beings left in Germany. If they're given a chance, they'll assert themselves...
...interview with the Sunday Advertiser Saturday, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, warned that of all the countries in the western hemisphere, Mexico is endangered the most by Nazi fifth column activity...
...Merriman pointed out that the present Mexican government is very unstable, and after having studied her past history of continued revolts, it is easy to see that the threat of another revolution is great in this uncertain period. On the other hand, Argentina and Brazil, the dominant states of South America, have not shown such a tendency toward revolt in the past and hence are not threatened as much by a revolution effected by the efficient Nazi political machine...
Professor Merriman strongly felt that the United States should not continue her policy of waiting to see what might happen but should enter the war now and thus fight the Germans in France before they come to this hemisphere. "We should fight on the Somme, not in Canada or in Mexico," he asserted...