Aye for Eye
Sir:
Re the July 14 issue: Let me be one of the thousands to congratulate you and your staff . . . Blessings on you for the courage to come out with political views the way you have . . . Ignore the slams you'll get ... Truth hurts, and it's about time someone had guts enough to publish the truth . . . I've read that "Eye of the Nation" article five times.
GWYNNE DE COVERLY Chicago
Sir:
Hurrah to TIME for exposing the Republican National Committee and the Taft tactics. I had begun to believe that TIME too could see corruption only within the Democratic Party; but right makes for right, and the convention itself upheld your stand in its decision . . . The Republican Party's candidate will go to the people this November with clean hands.
GEO. D. CARLOCK JR. Honey Grove, Texas
Sir:
I suppose the big eye on your convention cover once had an eyebrow. But it was lifted clear out of the picture at some of the goings-on it saw in Chicago.
KENNETH F. HALL
Anderson, Ind.
King Kong Cuts Sir:
. . . Each time King Kong is revived [TIME, July 14], more of the picture is cut. Not since 1933 have audiences seen the scene on the cliff in which Kong sits to examine his prize (Fay Wray) and tears off part of her dress ... Is this scene in the 1952 revival or does bluenose prudery win another round? . . .
EDWARD CONNOR New York City
P:RKO happily reports that Kong continues to triumph over prudery.--ED.
Munich: Kennedy v. Churchill
Sir:
In your June 9 Letters Column, Randolph S. Churchill says TIME was wrong in referring to Czechoslovakia as "Britain's ally" and denounces the "holier than thou" attitude adopted by some Americans towards the English in regard to Munich, and states that England had no more moral or legal obligation to defend Czechoslovakia than had the U.S. Mr. Churchill implies that the respective positions of Great Britain and the U.S. towards Czechoslovakia were on a par . . .
Britain's military alliance with France under the Locarno Pact of 1925 . . . although it did not guarantee Czechoslovakia against aggression as it did Belgium, made it inevitable that if France went to war to fulfill its own direct obligation under the Franco-Czech Treaty of 1924, England would be drawn in ... England was deeply committed, by her treaty with France and by her official actions . . . The illustrious father of Mr. Churchill has admitted that Great Britain was deeply involved and that "it must be recorded with regret that the British Government not only acquiesced but encouraged the French Government in a fatal course" (Churchill, The Gathering Storm).
The U.S. had no political involvement in Europe in 1938 . . . President Roosevelt never sent congratulations to Mussolini for arranging the Munich Conference, as alleged by Randolph Churchill . . . The President's telegram to Mussolini on Sept. 27 was a final appeal asking Mussolini to intervene with Hitler . . .
JOHN F. KENNEDY
House of Representatives Washington, B.C.
Lobstercide
Sir:
You should have consulted Cooking Expert Dione Lucas (WJZ-TV New York) for the simplest and most humane of all methods of killing a lobster [TIME, July 14]. She has shown us television pupils a cross behind its head which she pierces with a knife. The lobster is dead within seconds and none of the time-honored methods of cooking are interfered with.
MRS. LOUISE ASHENBERG
Hempstead, N.Y.
Sir:
Just in case no other New Englander writes to you about this lobster business, I protest these sadistic and unnecessary laboratory experiments with native members of our community. As long as 50 years ago, everybody east of the Hudson River knew that plunging a lobster head first into furiously boiling water relieved him instantly of life and all its problems. Not even a tail-flip in protest . . . Where have these experimenters hidden themselves from common but vital knowledge all this time ?
CLARENCE E. BOSWORTH Providence, R.I.
Education of a General
Sir:
. . . It would appear that the Communists at Panmunjom are using the usual Pavlovian methods on our negotiators. It is somewhat reassuring to learn from your July 7 report on Mark Clark that our military men are aware of the technique of raising hopes and dashing them.
CHRISTOPHER W. HOEY New York City
Fascinating
Sir:
Your July 7 PERSONALITY sketch on Professor Carl Jung was the most interesting in your new series to date. None of Jung's books contains half as much fascinating material as this one-page sketch. And, if TIME will permit me, I'd like to suggest another resident of Switzerland for a future PERSONALITY delineation--the famed theologian, Karl Barth.
NATHANIEL RUTHERFORD Cincinnati
Soviet Slavery
Sir:
You are to be commended highly for your splendid July 7 article about the 2,500,000 prisoners of war missing in Soviet Russia ... NATO's fact-finders talk about P.W.s only, and fail to mention the civilian victims . . .
Early in World War II some 1,200,000 persons were deported from Poland alone to the Soviet Union, one-third of them children. Between 1940 and 1949, the Russians deported about 267,000 persons from Estonia. From Latvia, nearly 350,000 persons were deported. Some 550,000 were sent to Siberia from Lithuania. "Only" 20,000 persons were abducted to the U.S.S.R. from Czechoslovakia. In Rumania, between 1944 and 1951, about 300,000 persons were sent to the Soviet Union and some 500,000 Germans were taken from Transylvania. Some 70,000 Hungarians were deported to the U.S.S.R. for political reasons. And these conservative figures do not include the millions of innocent persons who are the victims of the mass internal deportations in the Iron Curtain countries and in Soviet Russia proper . . .
GEZA B. GROSSCHMID Associate Professor Dept. of Economics Duquesne University Pittsburgh
Power Shovels
Sir:
As a heavy-equipment operator, I would like to bring TIME [July 7] up to date on an American colloquialism, i.e., "steam shovel," which was referred to in the article about the Trans Mountain Pipe Line through the Rockies. "Steam shovels" were obsolete 10 to 15 years ago, and at present all shovels are powered by diesel or gasoline and should be referred to as power shovels . . .
I hope the publication of this letter enables sidewalk superintendents to converse properly as we do in the construction trade.
WILLIAM B. BRODE Lewistown, Pa.
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