Dear Editor

DEAR EDITOR ETHNIC CONFLICTS Bogdan Raditsa's discussion, in his August 19 review-essay on Yugoslavia, of the prewar and World War II antagonism between Serbs and Croats was moderate and...

...Hamtramck, Michigan John Modzelewski 'IDEALISM' President Eisenhower's inability to show that "democracy is a more idealistic system than Communism," as reported in Tris Coffin's column [NL, August 19], sheds considerable light on the Administration's inability to combat Communism on a political plane...
...Responsible American Congressmen and editors have lent themselves to the propagation of such un-American ideas...
...It takes a deeper concept of freedom—and of the American idealism of Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt—to make headway against Communism...
...In large measure, convinced democrats (like Raditsa) are free from such animosities, and plead the cause of national reconciliation within the framework of a Danubian or all-European confederation...
...Needless to say, the House Committee on Un-American Activities under Congressman Francis Walter, unlike the old Dies Committee, is not interested in such matters...
...Too many articles by former East European dignitaries are not so...
...Tiso, the Bandera terrorists of the Ukraine...
...Glen Cove, N. Y. Herbert J. Miller...
...As Senator Fulbright noted, to the leaders of the big-business Administration—and their military front man—freedom means little more than "the freedom to buy whatever gadget appeals to us at the moment...
...But the remnants of Hitler's political machine in the East—and there are many former Nazi collaborators in this country —continue to spread his poison...
...DEAR EDITOR ETHNIC CONFLICTS Bogdan Raditsa's discussion, in his August 19 review-essay on Yugoslavia, of the prewar and World War II antagonism between Serbs and Croats was moderate and constructive...
...In fact, a whole literature of race hatred has grown up in America: Serbs and Croats, Czechs and Slovaks, Russians and Ukrainians accusing each other of pro-Communism...
...All the more credit, then, to The New Leader, which over the years, with the assistance of democratic exiles like Raditsa, has consistently presented a balanced interpretation of East Europe's tragedies...
...It is remarkable to see in the Congressional Record, as well as numerous slick magazines, articles by apologists for the Croatian Vstasha, the Slovakian quisling regime of Msgr...
...In the name of such values, can one do more than sign worthless military contracts, make vainglorious gestures and push one's weight around to no apparent purpose...

Vol. 40 • September 1957 • No. 35


 
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