Watchmen on the Suez
Sir:
Congratulations on your March 11 article, “The Watchman of Zion.” My only hope is that people all over the world will read it and finally realize that the Jews can also fightwhen they have something to fight for.
MIRIAM KIBRICK Newark
Sir:
Your March 11 “Nasser—the Other Man” couldn’t have been better. Here is an ambitious tyrant whose methods will gain him nothing but perdition. I only wish that more people would see him in the sane light that you do.
STEPHEN ETTINGER New York City
Sir:
We deplore your childish and hypocritical attitude towards President Nasser. We don’t seem to be able to pick up a TIME issue these days without finding some sort of cockeyed premonition of his imminent downfall; Nasser is there to stay. May TIME choke to death on its fury.
FOULATH HADID INDER SINGH
London
Sir:
I suggest that you print another such article on “Ben-Gurion—the Other Man.” Ben-Gurion’s record as the little “Hitler” of Israel would be truthful reading. Aggression, Israel’s policy, is becoming better known every day; its record of defiance to the U.N. is there for everyone to see.
FAYE REDDING Columbus, Ohio
Sir:
I have become thoroughly convinced that Ben-Gurion is nothing but a treacherous hypocrite, full of hatred for the Arab, deceit for the Christian, and malice for everything not Hebrew.
O. N. CAMPBELL
San Francisco
Sir:
It seems to me there could have been someone more worthy of the honor of being on your cover.
HILMA BENSON Pontiac, Mich.
Sir:
Was it misinterpretation or the printer who mixed Ben-Gurion and the deity in your opening quotation [“Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” —Psalms 121:4] ?
D S. HIBBARD Pasadena, Calif.
«I Neither.—ED. Assa Maddera Pack
Sir:
Clifton Fadiman should have given some credit for the growth of Televenglish [March 11] to Ed Murrow’s Person to Person program. Most of the “persons” on his shows never fail to begin a statement without “Assa maddera fack.”
ALICE E. CHRISTGAU Minneapolis
Sir:
I agreed to give my 13-year-old son a .22-cal. rifle for Christmas—provided that his first target would be our TV set. The bargain was duly carried out. His grades have improved ; he spends more time in our workshop; and none of us miss the delights of television in the slightest degree. Want to borrow our rifle, anyone?
C. E. TRIPP
Hudson, Ohio
Sir:
It may be interesting to note that stern Critic Fadiman himself did much to forward the cause as Headmaster of the Quiz Kids by conscientiously addressing the unseen audience as “Folks”
HELMUT HROTHGAR New York City
Sir:
Your article was awright, but in twenny years Televenglish will definitely sound natchral.
RICHARD CORLISS Philadelphia
Buckley’s Bastion
Sir:
I trust the new William Buckley school [March 4] will have a sign out in front stating, “Through these portals pass the most opinionated, unthinking, archaically trained students in Connecticut.”
MRS. MARJORIE T. DREYFUS New Haven, Conn.
Sir:
More power to Mr. William F. Buckley and his efforts to establish a school to teach American fundamentals and a conservative curriculum to youngsters. If the moral and intellectual damage done to America and her future by several decades of “progressive education” could actually be recorded, the result would probably exceed even the most extravagant estimates.
ANDY STUDEBAKER Seattle
Right-to-Work
Sir:
Anent your March 11 treatment of our right-to-work law: you do our cause a service by emphasizing the opposition of Indiana’s organized labor and enlightened capitalists. This emphasis illustrates the fact that our legislature enacted this anti-compulsion law because it was demanded by an army of Hoosier citizens. This army was comprised largely of industrial workers who resented the ultimatum:”Join the union or be fired!”
CHARLES W. BAILEY
Anderson, Ind.
Sir:
There are many decently and democratically administered unions, and if I were a working man I would be proud and willing to belong to one. But the point is that a man’s right to associate or not to associate with one is involved, and until his most powerful weapon of protest against the corrupt and the wrong in the union to which he belongs is restored to him, i.e., withdrawal from membership without forfeiting his job, corruption and exploitation of union members will not only continue, it will grow. THOS. F. MEAGHER Spokane
Sir:
Oldtimers seem to feel that, originally and on paper, the unions were good, but the folks who later took over just don’t know what to do with them.
MRS. JAMES EVANS Oklahoma City
The New Pillosophy
Sir:
Re “Happiness by Prescription” in your March n Medicine section: in The Captive Mind (1953), by Czeslaw Milosz, a Mongolian philosopher is said to have produced a pill which “was an organic means of transporting a philosophy of life.” This pill changed a man completely; he became serene and happy. In a subsequent war forecast between the East and West, the West laid down their arms, since their mental condition made them no longer capable of recognizing their real environment or interests. The new tranquilizing pills, which incidentally are of Oriental origin, may produce a people incapable of any constructive contribution to our own “brave new world.”
KATHLEEN M. McCoRMiCK Toronto
Sir:
The new tranquilizers or “Don’t-Give-a-Damn pills” are a boon to the mentally disturbed, but could also become the bane of an increasingly irresponsible citizenry. How about some subsidized slot machines dispensing “Give-a-Damn” pills for those who need the grit and guts to do a hard day’s work? (THE REV.) GEORGE HAGNIAIER
C.S.P.
Church of the Good Shepherd New York City
Janet, Go Home
Sir:
If Mrs. Janet Thomas [March 18] will go back to “tiny England” and take every damned Englishman in the U.S. with her, I would be happy to contribute to her fare.
STEVE E. MORRIS Houston
Sir:
The citizens of that “lousy burg” Baltimore ought to be able to raise enough for Janet’s first-class passage back to the whist drives in merry ol’ England. Bet her husband would kick in, too.
ROB KING Waterloo, Neb.
Street Scene in Cyprus
Sir:
That picture in your March 11 issue, showing a British soldier holding a machine gun over the heads of Cypriot children whose hands are raised in abject terror, should convince the world of the brutality and injustice of colonial rule, whether it be British or Russian brand.
HEINO KRIGOLSON
Vancouver, B.C.
Sir:
Your March 11 issue contains two articles: one on “terrorists,” the other on “freedom fighters.” This raises an interesting question: Would a dastardly “terrorist” become a heroic “freedom fighter” if he happened to be a Hungarian instead of a Cypriot?
J. H. GROFF Souderton, Pa.
Going Steady
Sir:
How ridiculous for young people of college and high-school age to confine their dating to a single person [March11]. And how stupid to defend it with the hope that it will teach fidelity in marriage when it in no way approximates marriage. Just think how “secure” one must feel going steady. Not for them the shattering experience of sharing an evening with someone new, putting one’s best foot forward in an effort to please, etc. Amherst President Cole says going steady tends to make the young people and their social activities more somber—boring would be a better word. He also noted that young people are marrying earlier today than ever —he might have added and divorcing more often.
PATRICIA MERRILL Portland, Ore.
Sir:
The Roman Catholic Church, no longer being able to chop off heads or burn people at the stake, has turned to less violent pursuits, such as debating whether or not to declare “going steady” a mortal sin.
HELLMUT STUCKERT Beverly Hills, Calif.
Childbirth on Record
Sir:
Your March 4 article a la the Dr. Grantly Dick Read method was a complete waste of space. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence should realize that perhaps there are a few isolated cases where women can give birth without a great deal of discomfort. Chances are that if Dr. Read were a woman he would not be one in this category; it would delight me to see the gentleman go through a long and painful labor.
RUTH S. BROOKS
Baltimore
Sir:
At last the “adult” answer to Elvis Presley —none other than a woman in labor on a long-playing disk for $3.98! I can think of nothing more relaxing than curling up on a long winter’s night to a few recorded contractions. As the mother of a recent two, I would find it jolly tiring.
MRS. KARL W. KLAGES
Bellingham, Wash.
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