McCarthy & the Army (Contd.)
Sir: I have never in my life read anything so vile blind and corrupt as your interprettion (May 3) of the McCarthy-Army hearings . . . LAVERNE WHITT Cincinnati
Sir: . . .Don't you realize that millions of your readers are watching and hearing the Senator and the Secretary, the expressions on their faces, their answers to embarrassing questions? Don't you know that your readers are able to make their own decisions, for the first time in history, on such subjects as who is lying, who is honestly trying to get at the truth, who is the honest lawyer, and who is the high-paid cover-up artist from the big city? We see McCarthy ask--then read in TIME that McCarthy sneered . . .
H. S. FOWLER North Manchester, Ind. Sir: After observing the behaviour of Senator McCarthy in the hearings now being shown on TV, I believe that he is indeed a menace to our democratic form of government . . .
MRS. DONALD CLEMENTS Washington, D.C. Sir: I am amazed at the nation's apathy in regard to the Army-McCarthy hearings. People who say that the hearings are a burlesque of trials may be entirely correct, but they cannot deny the fact that persons representing us are responsible for the presentation of this burlesque; we should not ignore the childish squabbles of our Government any more than we should ignore its mature actions . . .
JOAN PLUMMER Whittier, Calif.
Sir:
In light of Senator McCarthy's unusual activities relative to that group photograph and the "secret" FBI report, I should like to recommend that some enterprising university grant him a special degree as "Doctor of Letters and Photographs."
G. ALAN TURNER
Columbus, Ohio
Sir:
. . . This flagrant waste of the taxpayer's money has got to be stopped . . .
RONALD HAGEN
Jacksonville
Sir:
. . . A national disgrace . . .
JAMES HELBERG
Cumberland, Wis.
Movers & Shakers
Sir:
I would like to compliment you on the May 3 issue of TIME, in which you featured Earth Mover Harry Morrison . . . It is my opinion that Harry Morrison and other American builders of this type are doing more to build good will with our foreign neighbors than the Marshall-Acheson-Dulles combined team has ever done or ever will do.
E. L. SCRUGGS
Lancaster, S.C.
Sir:
After a driving day on a construction job (a new California school), a couple of drinks and a steak dinner, and then reading of Harry Morrison, one cannot help feeling inspired and glad to be a part of {our] industry . . .
HOWARD KLEINE Camarillo, Calif.
Sir:
We of Berkeley have always been under the impression that the Bay Bridge is longer than the Golden Gate Bridge, which is one mile in length.
To which small segment of the Bay Bridge do you refer when you say, "MK built the San Francisco side of the 4,62O-ft. Bay Bridge . . . "?
G. G. MERRYMAN Berkeley, Calif.
Sir:
In your April 26 issue . . . you published the following statement: . . . "thousands of vacation-minded U.S. citizens will be keenly interested to learn that south of the border this summer the dollar will reach 44% further." I am sure that most vacation-minded U.S. citizens will be equally interested to learn the truth. A recent . . . visit to Ciudad Juarez convinced me that the U.S. dollar goes little or no further than it did before devaluation. One large, modern curio shop . . . which is patronized almost exclusively by U.S. tourists, stamped out the old peso prices on the bulk of their items and left only the unchanged U.S. dollar prices showing on their dual currency tags . . . Evidently, devaluation of the peso merely means a 44% increase in peso prices.
PAUL A. REESE Silver City, N. Mex.
Cripes, Such Creeps
Sir:
TIME'S May 3 article asserting that "a U.S. soldier off duty is often a pretty overwhelming sight (to the average Briton)" is . . . misleading.
The article stated that we can wear zoot suits, Harry Truman shirts and other native costumes at such all-American affairs as ball games. Zoot suits? They've been out of style for years! Sport shirts? When can you wear a sport shirt if summer comes one day a year? Gulf Stream or no Gulf Stream, we're still 51DEG N.; this isn't Key West . . .
If the writer of the article knew what he was talking about, he would have mentioned the cartoon in a London newspaper lampooning Yanks dressing "in accordance with local custom" [see cut] . . . If they want us to dress "in accordance with local custom," would the Air Force approve of the "creep" style? They wouldn't have to disapprove it, because no sensible Yank would wear it. (For the nontourist, the "creep style" looks very much like a city-slicker gambling man's costume in a Western movie.) . . . The American G.I. is not only dressed better than the "average" Briton, but his pants are pressed, too.
(A/2c) FRANCIS X. SOMERS
Newbury, Berkshire, England
Welcome Mat
Sir:
My most recent notice of change of address was the third I have sent you in as many months. Yet in only a week's time, the change was effected and TIME was at my new doorstep. It makes us feel like we are really moved in when TIME arrives.
WAYNE P. GASPER
Memphis
Israeli & Arab
Sir:
In the issue of May 3, your Middle East correspondent Mr. Keith Wheeler refers in detail to an Israeli "attack" on the Jordanian village of Husan.
I wish to draw your attention to the fact that no such "attack" ever took place. The so-called proof that was furnished by the Jordanian authorities consisted of nothing except a collection of spurious pieces of evidence that clearly indicated that the whole affair had been carefully staged for the purpose of misleading U.N. authorities and world public opinion . . .
. . . A request by the Jordanian authorities for an emergency meeting to deal with this "serious incident" was rejected by the Chairman of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission . . . The government of Israel categorically denied that any such attack took place from Israel territory . . .
JOSHUA H. JUSTMAN Consulate General of Israel New York City
Sir:
You validated the statement that the struggle between the Arab and Israeli "is a conflict of right with right" and justified the Israeli right "because 4,000 years ago the narrow strip of Palestine became the cradle of their culture and religion."
To point out the preposterousness of this statement and its justification, I want you to follow your logic and imagine who will be the right owner of the world if it is to be given to whom it belonged to 4,000 years ago. Why is this principle applied exceptionally to the Arabs of Palestine, who are not to blame for the expulsion of ancient Jews from that country of multicivilization ?
MUHAMMAD JABER Arcata, Calif.
Proud Men
Sir:
Re your story on the 45th Infantry Division (TIME, May 3). During my military service, I guess I griped as much as any other GI. But the 14 months in Korea that I wore the Thunderbird patch on my left sleeve were proud ones . . . Thanks for your tribute to a topnotch outfit.
LES CRANDALL Hillsdale, Mich.
Sir:
Those rough, tough '"Thunderbirds" of the 45th Division may have "participated in more combat days than any three Marine divisions" but oh, brother, what a difference there can be between combat days!
Let's look at the record: the 45th's casualty loss of 20,993 in 511 days averages 41 men per combat day, whereas the Fifth Marine Division, which was in action only 25 days in World War II, paid the horrible price of 8,935 casualties on Iwo Jima, or 357 men per combat day.
Personally I wouldn't have traded a thousand days on the French Riviera for one on Iwo !
JULIAN G. YOCUM Steubenville, O.
Comics Controversy
SIR:
ARTICLE IN TIME, MAY 3 SERIOUSLY MISREPRESENTS THE FACTS IN REGARD TO THE WORK OF THE CHILD STUDY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. AS THE OLDEST PARENT EDUCATION ORGANIZATION IN THIS COUNTRY, WE HAVE, SINCE 1912, ADVISED. PARENTS AS TO THEIR CHILDREN'S READING. OUR PUBLICATIONS HAVE REPEATEDLY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY CALLED FOR THE ELIMINATION OF CRIME AND HORROR COMICS. ONE MEMBER OF OUR STAFF ONLY SERVES AS CONSULTANT TO ONE PUBLISHER ONLY AND THAT A COMPANY WHOSE COMICS MAGAZINES HAVE REPEATEDLY WON HONORABLE MENTION FOR THEIR HIGH QUALITY BOTH AS TO CONTENT AND ADVERTISING, AS WELL AS FOR THEIR PUBLIC-SERVICE FEATURES. THESE FACTS HAVE BEEN PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE.
MRS. CLARENCE K. WHITEHILL
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD CHILD STUDY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA NEW YORK CITY P:Senator Kefauver, member of the Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency, maintains that TIME'S story was correct.--ED.
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