The Cut that Guts

Sir:

Your Aug. 26 article on the foreign-aid program is frightening. The Communists may not yet have won the world, but they have certainly won in the U.S. Congress.

F. B. SHERMAN San Francisco

Sir:

Will our American politicians never grow enough to consider the needs of the country rather than their personal gain? President Eisenhower is being slaughtered for his ideals, which are not politically motivated.

SHIRLEY HIGGINS London

Sir:

In this year of 1957, Congress started a "bring our boys home" cry. The cry is misleadingly worded. Sometimes it sounds like "states rights," and the civil rights bill is gutted. Sometimes it sounds like "economy," and foreign aid is gutted. Above all, it sounds like a young child (Congress) trying to prove its independence of its parents (Ike) by threatening to run away from home (responsibility). We can only hope that men like Henry Kissinger (Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy) will, each in his own line, bring us and our Congressmen to a realization of what we are doing before Russia does the job for us.

BETTY C. HOGE

Baltimore

Ronald Knox

Sir:

Your Sept. 2 obituary on Monsignor Ronald Knox was heartwarming. He was a truly great man.

JOHN J. RAINEY

Troy, N.Y.

Sir:

Agreed that "all identity discs in heaven are marked RC," but with all respect to the late Monsignor Knox, his Protestant brethren think it means Redeemed Christian. The Jew wears his happily as one of the Returned Chosen, while the Buddhist feels he has Realized Contentment. For the Hindu it simply indicates he is a Reincarnation Candidate until he has Reached Completion.

HENRIETTA N. CARUTHERS Rellefonte, Pa.

Don't Go Near the Water

Sir:

Your Sept. 2 reference to September Morn ("about as innocuous as the, White Rock girl") was apt. That once chunky nude, the White Rock girl, peering into the drink, has evolved into a slim-hipped, lissome thing with a new hairdo and delicate, almost boyish proportions--an interesting example of an old-fashioned trademark evolving with public taste and changing times. Seldom does one see the White Rock girl in her innocent nudity. No, sir! She's enveloped in drapery, her bosom covered and a self-conscious smirk on her face. The bluenoses have obviously complained, and the company has probably ordered little White Rock to put on her underwear.

WILLIAM RODGERS Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.

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Two Kinds?

Sir:

We welcome TIME'S high-level handling of the important story of the Ben-Gurion-Goldmann ideological dispute. You have helped to illuminate Zionism as an issue of concern to men of all faiths. However, Ben-Gurion's and Goldmann's "prestige' may be high among Zionists, but your reference to it as high among "Jews" is dubious. Most Jews are indifferent or hostile to Zionism. We reject the "Jewish" nationalism of Zionism and hold that Judaism is a religious faith of universal values.

CLARENCE L. COLEMAN JR. President

American Council for Judaism Chicago

Sir:

Your article emphasizing a fallacy of "two kinds of Jews" was nothing better than food for thought for anti-Semites and Communists.

SUSAN C. TURICK

Brooklyn

Sir:

You have left the impression with some that there are only two kinds of Jews; a vast majority of Jews are of a third kind--not Zionists at all, but, on the contrary, patriotic, contented citizens of the countries in which they live, and whose religion is Judaism.

THEODORE NAMAN

Houston

Sir:

Can a Zionist be a true American?

A. S. AYISH Toledo

Cosseting Cozzens

Sir:

Your Sept. 2 article about Mr. Cozzens is most interesting, but why does he look so glum? Certainly he has much for which to be grateful. If he has achieved so well his desire to be away from people and financial (at least) success, surely this should bring about a bit of a glow to his countenance?

ANN JAMES Santa Cruz, Calif.

Sir:

That Cozzens fellow is certainly remarkable. Snob, introvert, hermit--all this, and a proud Anglo-Saxon blueblood too. Do you think poor greaseballs like me will ever be able to appreciate the genius of this man?

MEYER PERLOW Boston

Sir:

Could it be that Cozzens, like so many of us, has feelings of insecurity and self-doubt that he attempts to conceal by his profession of superiority ?

CHARLES W. HUGHES

Arlington, Va.

Civil & Other Rights (Contd.)

Sir:

Why is it that TIME has not seen fit to print any account of the recent race incidents in Chicago, in which some 30 persons were injured? If these had occurred in Mississippi, TIME would have given its usual lengthy, distorted account.

BERT H. JONES McComb, Miss.

Sir:

When I failed to see full coverage of the Levittown, Pa. riot, I began to wonder why. If this incident had happened in Montgomery, Ala., wouldn't you have carried it?

T. C. ALMON Decatur, Ala.

The Morals of Integration

Sir:

As a practicing Roman Catholic, I must say that I have nothing but contempt for those ungracious, unsympathetic remarks made by a Vatican spokesman against Archbishop Rummel's views on integrating whites and Negroes (Aug. 19). What New Orleans'

Archbishop Rummel has blinded himself to is the difference between the order of essences and the order of existence. In other words, a moral decree from His Excellency's dais is one thing and. practicing the decree in a classroom of hostile races is another thing.

MAURICE DU QUESNAY New Orleans

Sir:

Apart from other considerations, who decides whether there shall be integration or not in American schools: the Supreme Court, the U.S. Government, or the Pope? Since when has the U.S. permitted interference in its affairs by the head of a foreign state? G. H. LINDSEY New York City

Getting High on High

Sir:

Your Aug. 26 article "Drys v. Wets" quoted four National Airlines stewardesses who brought in a petition to a congressional committee asking that drinking be continued on our airlines. Testimony was also submitted to the Senate aviation subcommittee by the airline pilots who strongly supported the bill to ban the serving of liquor on commercial flights. There are usually two sides to a question.

(THE REV.) GEORGE WERNER The Saugerties Methodist Church Saugerties, N.Y.

Sir:

Your article failed to report my reasons for introducing a bill to prohibit the service and consumption of alcoholic beverages on airplanes'; the bill's intent is to provide greater safety for passengers on aircraft. STROM THURMOND United States Senate Washington, D.C.

Sir:

Why doesn't Senator Strom Thurmond worry more about the social problems of South Carolina rather than alleged "flying saloons"?

BRENDA HEIMAN HARVEY GOODFRIEND San Diego

For Crying Out Lewd

Sir:

I certainly don't condemn the editors or staff of Confidential for publishing such a magazine; it's the old story of supply and demand. Since John Q. Public sops up such questionable material, why not put the John Q. Publics on trial?

HOBART E. PIHL Los Altos, Calif.

Sir:

For crying out lewd! Don't get trashful, please. Leave the stories like the Confidential trial to the tabloids and bring us only the good ones we are used to reading from your magazine.

HANS L. HEIMANN Providence

Sir:

Re your Aug. 26 story on Confidential and Hollywood: please be more careful in future about associations. It isn't that those of us in publicity object so much to your flat statement, "Tips for stories were handed the Meades . . . by a shadowy legion of informants who ranged from call girls and pressagents . . ." It's just that our wives are asking, if we are in this classification, how come our take home pay is so little?

STAN MORRIS Press Information American Broadcasting Co. Hollywood, Calif.

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