Republicans in New Hampshire

Sir: Lodge wins in New Hampshire. Nixon says he will accept the vice-presidential nomination. Robert Kennedy leads in preferential polls for the vice-presidency.

Shades of 1960! Can it be that in 1964 it will be Johnson and Kennedy versus Lodge and Nixon?

GEORGE BROMBERG Los Angeles

Sir: The New Hampshire primary can hardly be interpreted as a victory for Lodge, but rather as a rejection of Goldwater and Rockefeller.

JOHN W. KRIENKE Springfield, 111.

Sir: I am delighted with Lodge's decisive victory in New Hampshire. He is not merely an easy out for those disenchanted with Rockefeller's liberalism or Goldwater's rash conservatism. He has the respect of many Americans for his long and loyal service in the Senate, the U.N., and now as Ambassador to Viet Nam. He is, in short, the best-qualified candidate for the White House. This is why he won in New Hampshire.

KENNETH G. HANCOCK Madison, Wis.

Republicans at Home

Sir: The capsulate view of the private lives of Republican potential candidates [March 6] was admirable. Such tidbits add a dimension of personality to figures who may otherwise tend to be distant.

MARCIA HOPP Syracuse, N.Y.

Sir: Is there any significance to the fact that your article about G.O.P. presidential hopefuls shows them all amidst plush surroundings of homes, apartments, etc., with the exception of Richard Nixon, who is pictured on a park bench?

JIM CONLIN Pontiac, Mich.

>None. Former Vice President Richard Nixon was just in a mood to take a walk with Checkers.--ED.

Sir: Apparently the latest political-status symbol for the ladies is a double strand of pearls: note Peggy Goldwater, "Happy" Rockefeller, Mary Scranton and Margaret Chase Smith. Mrs. Romney must be keeping her pearls beneath her jacket as long as George's ambitions are under his hat.

MRS. JANICE KILLIAN Glen Ellyn, 111.

The Five-Gallon Look

Sir: Referring to Lyndon's five-gallon hat as a "Stetson" [March 6] is like identifying all rifles as Winchesters and cameras as Kodaks. Mr. Johnson buys a specially designed hat made by the Texas-based firm of Byer-Rolnick.

CLARENCE C. HOMEYER Houston

Divided Districts

Sir: The Supreme Court decision on redistricting [Feb. 28] for the ostensible purpose of equal representation has evolved into a laughable paradox. What seemed to be the victorious culmination of a long-standing protest by liberals to increase urban representation and hence Democratic power will actually boost Republican representation in most of the areas where gerrymandering has occurred. I can't stop laughing.

CHARLES L. BAILEY JR. Selinsgrove, Pa.

Sir: The highest court has come to the only moral and logical conclusion compatible with true democracy: that the vote of every citizen should have the same weight, regardless of color, creed, origin, financial ability--or place of residence. MARTIN FREUND New York City

J' Accuse

Sir: I cannot find words strong enough to protest your outrageous and unfair review of The Deputy [March 6]. Your cute word plays, however, will not hide the fact that you are insensitive to the central issue of the play, which is not the Pope but people--6,000,000 people exterminated by the Nazis. From his office in Rockefeller Center, your reviewer imagines that there "might have been a far finer spur to conscience." When I walked out of the Free People's Theater in Berlin in the company of a stunned audience after having seen the play last summer, I could imagine no "finer spur to conscience," then or now.

(THE REV.) RICHARD E. KOENIG Immanuel Lutheran Church Amherst, Mass.

Sir: It is foolish to argue that Hoch-huth's play is a "shift-the-blame show," in which the attempt is made to whitewash the German people at the expense of the Roman Pontiff. In the play itself, the guilt of Germany is presented in a brutal and radical manner. Not a single sentence hints that the Pope is "guilty" of the mass murder of millions of people. This, however, does not change the fact that Pope Pius XII remained silent and refused to condemn the Nazi atrocities. Bodo Nishan

East Lansing, Mich.

Sir: I think some notice should be taken of the fact that Pius XII, in his "complacency, indifference," etc., procured the life rather than the death of thousands of Jews. A papal condemnation of Germany would only have caused the atheistic Hitler to terminate relations with the Vatican. This, in turn, would have severed all opportunity for the Vatican to supply ways and means of escape to the Jews. However, no condemnation was made, and the ways and means of escape remained open, as thousands of Jews can testify.

PETER DABOUL II Providence, R.I.

Sir: Rolf Hochhuth has a Nazi mind and unscrupulously capitalizes on a painful dilemma. Pius' protest was not heard, so Hochhuth makes him a criminal.

(THE REV.) JULIAN FUZER DeWitt, Mich.

Sir: While Pope Pius XII did not publicly condemn the ghastly Nazi crimes to "prevent more misfortunes," men in more vulnerable positions did speak out. German Bishop Clemens August von Galen, for example, spoke out against those responsible for "Action T-4," the murder of defectives. He also read the list of his detailed charges from the pulpit of the Sankt-Lamberti Church in Munster, Westphalia, on Aug. 3, 1941. After protests by more clergymen, Hitler, allegedly worried about weakening morale, had Action T-4 stopped in August 1943. Bishop Galen, who became known as the Lion of Munster, earned much respect for his courage. He died a Cardinal in 1946.

FRANK HAARHOFF Toronto, Ont.

Sir: The author of The Deputy should be reminded that the brutalities and injustices committed by Hitler and his followers were not stopped by protests. It took lives and billions of dollars to put an end to their activities.

ROBERT M. THEIS Cold Spring, Minn.

Teaching Teachers

Sir: The National Council of English Teachers [March 13] is apparently convinced that high school teachers would be greatly benefited by submitting themselves to the ministrations of college professors. But if these professors did such a deplorable job of preparing these teachers in the first place, as the council's figures imply, why does the council now believe that the teachers would be benefited by another dose of the same medicine? When college professors have a product worth buying, they will find plenty of customers.

H. P. SMITH

Hieh school English teacher Wexford, Pa.

Save the Kangaroos

Sir: At the risk of being laughed at by many Australians, I must say that I couldn't help feeling pity when I saw the photograph of the slaughtered kangaroos [March 6]. That little fellow standing and staring at the dead carcasses really touched me.

The Australian people may well take heed of the thought that these animals may be extinct in a very short while at the rate that they are being slaughtered. Controlled, humane killing to solve their problem would seem to be one thing. Mass slaughter such as this is indeed horrible.

MRS. JANE R. LANG Baltimore

Meaningful Religion

Sir: It is gratifying to see that some Anglican liberals [March 6] are at last beginning to grope toward what some of us found a long time ago. It would seem obvious that religion must not disagree with what science and psychology tell him. When thinking people are presented by religious orthodoxy with a package of concepts regarding the nature of man and the universe, on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, the choice amounts to either total rejection or ethical schizophrenia.

WILLIAM S. OAKES Owensboro, Ky.

Sir: I was happy to learn that the Cambridge Theologians "admit that they have no new faith to put forward, and no solutions to present dogmatically."

These 20th century "theo-niks" should renounce holy orders as their contribution to spring-cleaning our branch of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

(THE REV.) JACK ADAM St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Las Vegas

Dorothy & Bard

Sir: I am sure you assumed at the time you reviewed Vincent Sheean's book, Dorothy and Red [Nov. 15] that, since certain events took place more than 40 years ago and both main characters had passed on, so also had Joseph Bard, Dorothy Thompson's first husband. Such is not the case. Joseph Bard is very much alive, and your reference to him is distressing in the extreme--not only to him but to his many friends and admirers. Mr. Bard is a well-known literary figure, and one whose reputation is highly respected throughout the world. He is, among other distinctions, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Contrary to the impression your article may have created, Mr. Bard continued to enjoy Dorothy Thompson's affection and respect to the end of her days.

NORMAN SCHUR New York City

> TIME regrets any distress caused either to Mr. Bard or to his friends.--ED.

Out, Damned Spot

Sir: As a photoengraver for the Los Angeles Times, I was ordered to perform the surgery [March 6]. As a Frenchman, I didn't have my heart in it.

MAURICE ROSSET Los Angeles

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