After the Visit
Sir:
I have been astounded, appalled and infuriated with the incredible spectacle of American business and political leaders fawning all over a delegate of international gangsterism. Do any of our business, industrial or political leaders think of the aggression against small states, mass murders, purges, brutal suppression of dissident minorities, repeated doublecrosses--to say nothing of the long and ever-growing list of agreements and treaties broken, deliberately and with considerable malice aforethought, by Communists?
CLARENCE E. COFFIN JR.
Coronado, Calif.
Sir:
Mr. Mikoyan was not here to scout for his country. Indeed he was here for the opposite purpose. He came in the same way that Stevenson and Humphrey went to his country. He came in peace -for the purpose of promoting peaceful trade.
J. HENRY REMQUIN
Milwaukee
Sir:
Congratulations and more power to those who so aptly demonstrated against the general manager of the Khrushchev Butcher Shop: Anastas Mikoyan.
J. J. WEISBLOTT
Toronto, Ont.
Sir:
By supplying the Communists with credit to buy capital goods, the West would be putting another nail in the coffin of freedom. It would 1) permit a Communist industrial speedup that would enable them to beat (with their usual subsidies) Western bloc quotes in export markets hitherto untouched by them; 2) free more money for the U.S.S.R. to lend at less-than-cost interest rates to uncommitted neutrals, thereby winning favor and using them up economically. Yes, trade with the Communists, but restrict the goods to food and consumer items, etc.
RALPH B. ROSENBLUM
Sydney, Australia
Missiles: Theirs & Ours
Sir:
The success of the Russian moon rocket should teach you Americans a lesson. Concentrate more on science and less on jazz, hula hoops and the almighty dollar.
B. R. CHIBBER
Nairobi, Kenya
Sir:
Let Russia shoot its Luniks. Two-thirds of the Soviet people don't even know what a decent outhouse looks like.
N. P. RECKAS
Albany, Calif.
Sir:
Well, there's one thing we can be sure of. The Russians won't get into Heaven first with their missiles; they don't believe in it.
WILLIAM GOMBAR
Baumholder, Germany
Sir:
Why do some question the spending of millions to search outer space? Can't they see we desperately need more inhabited countries to whom to give democracy and cash? There might even be farmers up there, and by adding a little to our taxes and raising the national debt limit a few more billions, we could subsidize them as we have our own.
RALPH SIMMONS
Monmouth, Ill.
The Victors
Sir:
Fidel Castro has put a bad taste in everybody's mouth with his senseless "trial by jury," followed by the customary executions. Is this his dream of Cuba's new-found democracy ?
ALLEN S. PLOTKIN
Scranton, Pa.
Sir:
TIME has won the gratitude of the Cuban people for its impartial coverage of the Cu ban situation. Our people, led by the new Bolivar, Fidel Castro, have given a unique example to the whole world in their fight against one of the most cruel dictatorships.
I do'not envy the American people who have to rub shoulders with those torturers and rapists who have taken refuge in your country in order to enjoy their stolen millions.
JOSE M. ESTRUGO
Havana
Sir:
It is amazing that the two current heroes of certain segments of the American public are Fidel Castro and Anastas Mikoyan. Castro made war on the Cuban people for years --burning their homes and crops and sabotaging their roads, bridges and communications. This hero justifies his wholesale executions by saying that Batista did the same thing. As to the other hero, Mikoyan, who ordered the mass murder of many Hungarians, he was wined and dined, and his opinions eagerly sought. Apparently, it all depends on who commits the atrocities.
MRS. BEN KIMBROW
Cold Springs, Ky.
Ladies Not for Burning
Sir:
"The devil was abroad in Salem all right, but he was not in the witches. He was in the people who burned the witches." TIME [Jan.5] should know that no witch, wizard or warlock was burned in the Salem-New England madness. They were either imprisoned or hanged, with the exception of one man who was pressed to death.
FLORENCE RYERSON CLEMENTS
Hampton Falls, N.H.
P: Right. Many New England witches were hanged, none was burned. The exception was Salem's Giles Cory who was bound, stretched out on the ground and covered with heavy stones. When the dying man's tongue protruded from his mouth, the local sheriff pushed it back with his cane. --ED.
Power & Poetry
Sir:
Your Jan. 12 article on General Electric and Ralph Cordiner was most interesting and well presented. However, Mr. Cordiner's ideas on decentralization have been carried out with such expediency in the Schenectady area that hundreds of workers have found themselves stranded in an area ill-prepared for such drastic changes.
MARGARET J. OAKSFORD
Broadalbin, N.Y.
Sir:
Your article is enlightening and thoughtprovoking, but I am shocked at you for lauding G.E. and not considering the penalty labor has to pay. Cordiner's policy will not crush union power; if anything, it will make the unions stronger. He better work with them rather than against them.
LLOYD D. WELLBAUM
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Sir:
Ah, those corporate minds! "Far to the right" Cordiner informs us: "Civilization is moved forward by restless people, not by those who are satisfied by things as they are." G.E. better retire that boy. He's about to become a democrat, or even worse, a Democrat. Bet the board lets him off the hook when he explains that "civilization" only means G.E.
GENE DAVIS
Coral Gables, Fla.
Sir:
My loyalty to TIME is due in large part to its superior prose. For instance, the lead sentence of the G.E. article is, surprisingly, a poem:
Amid the rolling hills . . . the domed buildings stood bizarre and unexpected, like monstrous silver derbies tossed away by a giant.
LOUISE DYER HARRIS
Newtonville, Mass.
At Home with the Eames
Sir:
That was a very impressive picture of Charles Eames's home in your Jan. 12 Art section. Who cleans it, and how?
ANNE GUNDERSON
Ames, Iowa
P: The Eames's three-day-a-week cleaning woman says she has no trouble. --ED.
Sir:
I dragged in an old ladder from the garage, and it now stands in the center of the lounge. Man, we're really living, thanks to Designer C. Eames.
MRS. H. M. ELLIOT
Danbury, Conn.
The Case of Marie Torre
Sir:
Concerning your Jan. 12 Press story, "Protecting the Source": the national press seems to have made a martyr of Marie Torre. An irresponsible press has no place in a nation founded on freedom, because a man is not free if he is not protected by law from the spreading of malicious gossip about himself. If the law did regard the relationship between a reporter and his source of information as confidential, what would protect the individual from being slandered by an irresponsible columnist who could disclaim responsibility lor his malicious actions by pleading "confidential relationship?"
RONALD B. BRASS
Washington, D.C.
Dressing Down the Governor
Sir: If Mr. Rockefeller considers a business suit adequate for his inauguration, why the black tie for the evening celebrations? Why not formal dress for a formal occasion ? As far as evening junketing is concerned, any man who picks up a $40,000 tab can wear a bikini and be regarded as the best-dressed man in the assemblage.
CATHERINE NELLES
Aurora, Ont.
No Change
Sir:
On your Dec. 29 cover the artist drew a Morgan-type silver dollar with a 1958 date. The last year the Morgan-type silver dollar was minted was 1921.
BERNARD SLOTNICK
Paterson, N.J.
P: Artist Artzybasheff expects no one to change his dollar. --ED.
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