War & Peace

Sir: I have a suggestion for the State Department: Give those students who took up a collection [June 25] for the Viet Cong a one-way ticket to Hanoi.

ANDREW L. FAUCI Las Vegas, Nev.

Sir: Who says "most Americans" don't swallow the idea of U.S. "combat support" in Viet Nam? Has any major pollster tapped grass-roots opinion lately?

RONALD H. LIMBAUGH Boise, Idaho

> The Gallup poll last week reported that, of those expressing opinions, 23.6% would continue present policy in Viet Nam, 35.4% would increase military action, while 38.4% would stop it.

Sir: There is no possibility of establishing a stable representative government in the religiously and otherwise divided state of Viet Nam. We are not defending a "free people" but conducting an extremely inefficient and costly military operation against Communist China with little or no damage to the real enemy, and we are killing a lot of women and children. The idea that the free world would interpret withdrawal as giving up the fight is nonsense. Asian Communism can be contained from a number of bases, including Formosa, Japan, the Philippines and Pakistan.

CLINTON O. JONES Lenox, Mass.

Sir: Those men giving their lives in Viet Nam desire peace as much as any one of you who are safe and sound in the U.S. But they realize that peace and freedom are not possible for that little country or for the world as long as Communism is what it is today.

(SK3) MICHAEL E. BEAVER U.S.S. Regulus

There's a Smile . . .

Sir: I read with interest in your issue of July 2 your account of the television debate on Viet Nam in which I participated. I must take exception to your statement that I "smiled weakly." I never do that. Either 1 smile or I don't.

HANS J. MORGENTHAU Chicago

Before Waterloo

Sir: In "1815 and All That" [June 25], there is a regrettable mistake. I am quoted as saying, at the memorial service for the men of all nations killed in the Battle of Waterloo: "We have had many ceremonies this week. You might call this one eccentric, in line with the curious behavior of the English." I did make the comment that same day when planting an oak tree to commemorate the first cricket match ever played in Belgium by British officers on the eve of the battle. The ceremony at Hougoumont, however, was a solemn and very impressive religious service, and your report places these words in the wrong context.

RODERICK BARCLAY British Ambassador to Belgium Brussels

Time for Compassion

Sir: Re "The Banished American" [June 25]: It seems to me that while in Kusadasi, Ken Baldwin has not only served adequate time for his circumstantial crime, but has taken a somewhat distasteful situation and converted it into a diplomatic mission. Since he has done so much to ease and elevate the Turkish view of America, I can see no reason why the U.S. Army can't find the compassion in its heart to pardon Mr. Baldwin.

WILLIAM A. ROMANO Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y.

American Jews

Sir: A splendid, succinct and generally balanced appraisal of Jewish life in the U.S., circa 1965, is TIME'S essay on "The New American Jew" [June 25]. You have caught beautifully the pride of being a Jew, the pride of belonging within a great people, the pride of helping to build a nation, and the love of the U.S. Considering the history of the Jews for 57 centuries, this development is a monument to the validity of free institutions. Of course, there is always the danger of euphoria. For, we all know, the evil of anti-Semitism lurks even here in alleys and cracks and in dark minds, ready to break out if we are not entirely vigilant. But in mounting this vigilance, the Jew is increasingly finding at his side his Christian neighbor as well as our nation's institutions.

JACOB K. JAVITS U.S. Senate Washington, D.C.

Sir: The article, a masterpiece of editorial journalism both in content and depth of achievement, paints a colorful articulation, a true and honest portrait of the American Jew. It is positive, yet critical. As a matter of fact, you too have captured the Jewish quality that you so aptly summarized in the last paragraph: ". . . it is sharp humor, often directed at oneself."

GUNTHER LAWRENCE Union, American Hebrew Congregations New York City

Sir: "The New American Jew" is a splendid job, solidly based and elegantly written.

HERMAN EDELSBERG Anti-Defamation League Washington, D.C.

Sir: A superbly perceptive piece.

JACK WINOCOUR Editor

World Jewry London

Sir: I kept thinking you were talking just about me.

AMELIA JACOBS South Bend, Ind.

Sir: In your perceptive and otherwise excellent essay, you neglected to include any mention of Zionism. Zionism is not a movement whose goal is to send vast sums of money overseas. It is, rather, a modern manifestation of the ancient messianic movement committed to the preservation and perpetuation of basic Jewish values and ideals, recognizing Israel as the focal point of the totality of Jewish living, a cultural center from which will come a renascence of the Jewish spirit.

DEBORAH WEISSMAN National Young Judaea Haverhill, Mass.

Sir: Judaism is neither religion nor nationality. It cannot be defined in terms of race, creed or color. It is a hereditary neurosis, a triumph of involuntary affiliation. Perhaps that is its fascination for Americans today.

BERNARD EVSLIN New Rochelle, N.Y.

Sir: Anti-Semitism in the corporate business world is probably less prevalent than your essay indicates. Many Jews who fail to climb the executive ladder are quick to use anti-Semitism as a cloak to hide their own weaknesses. These people, by helping to keep the fear of anti-Semitism alive among Jews, do more harm to Judaism than George Lincoln Rockwell and the whole American Nazi Party.

ARTHUR C. BUDD New York City

Fraternal Discrimination

Sir: I am a senior and a member of Phi Gamma Delta at Gettysburg College. Our chapter has received the dispensation you mention [June 25], allowing us to admit Negroes, but only to comply with the demands of the college administration. I can say with certainty that a Negro will not be admitted to our chapter in the foreseeable future. The reason for this will not be a "gentlemen's agreement"; it will be because the members do not want a particular individual as a member of their fraternity. And if a group of men do not have the right to decide with whom they want to form life-long ties of brotherhood, why do we live in the U.S.?

BART OVEROCKER North Plainfield, N.J.

Sir: If Commissioner Keppel were to read the entire Civil Rights Act, he would notice that Article V specifically mentions that private social organizations retain the right to choose their members as they see fit. As a fraternity member (Delta Upsilon, which is nonsecret and has no racial or religious restrictions on membership), I am shocked and incensed that this puffed-up bureaucrat can simply ignore the law and tell my fraternity brothers and myself whom we may or may not pledge and initiate.

FRANK L. HOWE Sun Prairie, Wis.

Sir: Many moons ago the Jewish peddler's grandson Barry Goldwater was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Arizona, 1928-29.

JACK FLINN Seattle

Concrete Trees

Sir: The inside concrete "trees" in the new IBM building in Cranford, N.J. [July 2] remind me of one of the Remter inside the Marienburg, built in about 1309-1383. The Marienburg, in the former province of

East Prussia, is one of the most famous examples of the many castles of the former German orders, built here especially as a bulwark against the then heathenish East.

SIEGFRIED KIRCHHEIMER New York City

Delightful, Not Decaying

Sir: Your article on nonstudents [June 25] created a completely erroneous impression of Berkeley and the University of California. The city of Berkeley, particularly around the campus, is delightful, not decaying, and a small fringe of nonstudent hangers-on do not remotely typify this magnificent institution.

MICHAEL ASIMOW Los Angeles

Sir: I attended Columbia in 1962-1963. Your characterizations are correct, but your analysis is wrong. Barnard girls are never in need of "a Negro at a party," because there are too many Negroes available and welcome. And the conversation never "finally works up to the crucial question, 'Where's the party tonight?'" because the dialogue doesn't cease.

NORMAN H. POSNER Baltimore

Rockwell-Standard

Sir: One of Rockwell Manufacturing Co.'s hardest tasks seems to be straightening out the confusion about Rockwell Manufacturing Co. and Rockwell-Standard Corp. They are completely separate companies, making different products, although the same Rockwell family is connected with both. We were, shall we say, discouraged on reading in TIME [May 28 that "Willard [Rockwell] Jr., 51, was named president and chief executive ol Pittsburgh's Rockwell Manufacturing Co. last month." The fact is that Willard F. Rockwell Jr. was president of Rockwell Manufacturing Co. for 17 years--from 1947 to 1964. In 1963, he was named president of Rockwell-Standard Corp., a post that he held for over a year simultaneously with his post as president of Rockwell Manufacturing. Last month, in the action you were referring to, Mr. Rockwell was named chief executive officer of Rockwell-Standard in addition to his post as president there.

G.M. BRUCE Director of Public Relations Rockwell Manufacturing Co. Pittsburgh

Sexus

Sir: The title of TIME'S review of Henry Miller's Sexus ("The High Price of Zap"--June 25) suggests a possible rebuttal that might be called "The High Price of Pap." Henry Miller is one of the few people in our society who spend their lives trying to salvage living souls from the whirring junkheap of robothood. His books glitter with the joy of life, and they are capable of leading any halfway open-minded citizen to a point where he can deal with evil.

LEO DAUGHERTY Commerce, Texas

Sir: Your reviewer raps Miller for not being a "competent novelist"; yet the book is not a novel but an autobiography! Miller himself said of this book, "I made a herculean effort to represent myself for what I then was," and the result was "not a lovely picture I made of myself."

As for the comment that Miller was "an effective pornographer": yes, a raw, living, truth-seeking, effective pornographer.

RALPH FINCH Detroit

Covering the Poles

Sir: Your issue of June 18, like so many of its predecessors, was a precious contribution to our education. The article on Gemini 4 was thorough and scientific as well as rich in humor and sentiment; and, at opposite poles, the article on prehistoric Cycladic statuary was an expert and illuminating review of the evolution of Greek sculpture. Please continue to engage men and women of high competence in their fields to keep us informed on the many aspects of our complex and fascinating age. Sincerest congratulations.

WILL DURANT Los Angeles

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