LETTERS
LETTERS Lebor Schools In Germany Need Support From WALTER CALLS the interratiomal Solidarity committee, 303 Fourth Avenue, New York 10, N. Y., is heading up a campaign to support the new...
...Many of us do, but we will not make a religion of our policies, as Mr...
...Those willing to help should write to the Committee...
...B. Larrabee is ihe publisher of "Printers' Ink...
...Although it is true that local candidates helped Truman in many states, Harry ran ahead of the local ticket—as well as the pollsters—in almost as many other states...
...This is not surprising, for humanity, by and large, is filled with many faults and selfishness and ingratitude...
...BOHN'S column on "The Man of Faith" struck an unusually responsive chord in my mind...
...The F:F.L, or the "Stern Gang" which yvtu mm .pciiicunt enjoys calling it, cam* into existence for a very good reason...
...I think Mr...
...Charity makes him tolerant of the mistake^ of others...
...Then he goes on to say: "I have lived in Prague for three months now and my heart is not broken...
...That is, the vote was not uniformly light, and in some places it was not light at all...
...Not only that, but I always pass it on to some friend while pointing out the importance of some particul r article, especially those articles by 1 Bohn and Chamberlin...
...Leader Hailed By President OIF Tuskegee From F. 0. PATTERSON President, Tuskegee Institute I AM GLAD to see the January 12 issue of The New Leader in which Mr...
...It is too bad that Mr...
...while bis idea of perfectibility, based upon the perfection in the God he worships, leaves him eternally dissatisfied with anything short of the perfection he believes exists in that perfect Being who has created him...
...Alexander wrote, I would not bother to protest, but there ere deeper and more significant things than name calling...
...Mascetta apparently has done...
...N. Y. Christian Faith Needed For 'Real' Idealism From MATTHEW JF...
...large numbers not, as is officially stated, because they are slackers and chronics, but because of their doubtful political past or their unsuitable mentaUty...
...with Arab leaders...
...His faith in God ii unimpaired because he knows that God endures man's evil for the purpose of bringing him to repentence...
...If the Stern group felt it was necessary to make arrangements to allow Jewish immigration to Palestine, it is quite understandable...
...humility gives him an insight into his own tendency toward error...
...If calling the F.F.I, "terrorist" was the only misleading fact which Mr...
...It is one of the few newspapers in which i rea 1 practically every article containe therein...
...Robert J. Alexander's article uppear, on Negroes in Government...
...That is, did the "sure thing" atrribsphere radiated by the polls cause farm Republicans to stay home, thus forcing a light national vote but a heavy city vote...
...Martin's argument breaks down to mere sophistry...
...The implication is that he, having spent three months in Prague, is now an expert, whereas the six-hour man is not...
...The existence of the Jewish underground was an outcome of British terrorism and deliberate double-dealing Likes Lyons Piece From MARY VERDIE PERMIT THIS to be my fust and only fan letter...
...If you haven't read that article, by all means look it up...
...Stern Gang Not Terrorist, He Says, Telling Why From SAMUEL ETSTEIN AS A CONSTANT READER of your worthwhile publication I have found it a great help in my work to separate truth from propaganda...
...Alabama...
...Worth's heart...
...New York City...
...Chicago, for example, set a new all-time voting record...
...Thousands of people—expropriated business men, lawyers, and other professional men—just now serve the state or starve, instead of bcinfl able to pursuit' independent careers...
...For that is "ie real starting point for improving humanity...
...The leaders of the group were not u bunch of fanatics, neither are their followers gangsters and thugs which the bulk of American, as well as Jewish papers, continuously kept calling them...
...They are doing wonderful work in giving young people the training they need for trade union work...
...A This is a most constructive contribution to better race relations in America...
...Confusion in 'The Nation' From C. B. LARRABEE ON PAGE 208 of the February 19th issue of The Nation, I came across an article by Alexander Werth, which seems to me to be a tip-off on the confused, and I might almost say abject state of some so-called liberal minds...
...Though not a candidate for the position, 1 have been trying for some time to get the Secretary of Agriculture to make such an appointment as this article suggests...
...Politics, being the art of the possible, is by its very nature calculated to disillusion the idealist, unless the idealist understands the Christian ideas of charity, humility, and human perfectibility...
...Many writers, newspaper men, and artists have either been purged or are destitute because their strong liberal convictions will not allow them to cooperate with the government...
...The genuine Christian is not H mavod at the faults of others, lie ke -s that the struggle to perfect his e n will last a lifetime...
...Martin refers to the lightness of the vote...
...An examination of votes cast in the large industrial centers will show that the vote was unusually heavy...
...His general premise L is correct—-that is, Gallup, Hoper and Co...
...Claims Polisters Hart GOP, Won tor HST From HOWARD JACKSON ABRAM V. MARTIN'S piece on the pollsters was about as good as most of the post-election post mortems, but it still missed the boat...
...But, the Committee says, the men and women who are carrying on these schools "lack everything —food, writing materials, books...
...Mascetta interesting and timely because he seems so characteristic of so many modern "liberals" who have put so much faith in Socialism to right the world's evils and are so naively puzzled that every honest man does not embrace the "good" inherent in this humanitarian system...
...To one who has looked to you for a truthful and objective job of reporting, I can not but wonder why you allow your correspondent in Israel, Mr...
...I think 2 percent would be more like it...
...Is it possible that the pollsters' error was one of commission and not of omission...
...LETTERS Lebor Schools In Germany Need Support From WALTER CALLS the interratiomal Solidarity committee, 303 Fourth Avenue, New York 10, N. Y., is heading up a campaign to support the new labor schools which have been founded in Germany to take the place of those destroyed by Hitler...
...The political idealist who rejects the Christian God, i. e., the God of Abraham, Moses, and Christ, usually ends up by losing his faith in the people he professes to serve...
...Whether you like it or not, if you are a eoUege student or a government official, you have to study your Marx and Lenin and Stalin, and also such a classic of Caech Communism as President Gottwald's own 'Ten Years.' Actual concentration camps do not exist, but 'labor camps' have been or are about to be opened for ulleged 'industrial slackers,' black marketers,' and other 'uncooperative elements.' " I wonder just what it takes to break Mr...
...Mark Alexander to deliberately distort the facts and to write with extreme bias to the "terrorist" elements in that country...
...The reason for the act was to frustrate an attempt by the British Colonial Office to force the Jewish people of Palestine to undergo another revision of the Mandate which the League of Nations gave to them...
...Far from the condemnation which Mr...
...Thus the Christian idealist with his sharp awareness of the extent and the insidiousness of evil among men does not despair when evil seems to be in the ascendency...
...He starts out with the usual snooty reference to the journalist who spends six hours in Czechoslovakia and then says, "To see Prague breaks your heart...
...I thought the picture of your Mr...
...The Eugene Lyons article on Anna Louise Strong in your last issue was superb...
...Evanston, 111...
...It was the best story on Miss Strong that has yet appeared in the press, Bridgeport, Conn...
...It is the belief of this writer that Christians can see the "good" in Socialism— and even in Communism—with greater clarity than Socialists can see the "good" in Christianity because Christians, generally speaking, are trained to a more comprehensive view of the world and of man, and because it is the primary business of Christians to look for and to recognize the good wherever it may be found...
...Tuskegee...
...The underground fighters knew that it was usless to beg from Britain and that more extreme measures would be necessary to free the Jews from Europe...
...Support for them is disperately required...
...The highly significant basis for his calculations is found in small type...
...I admit that Czechoslovakia today has some extremely unpleasant aspects...
...In so doing, he overlooks one highly important factor...
...The assassination of Lord Moyne was not as your correspondent called it "symbolic...
...No Weekends Lost for Reader From FRANK R. CIOSSWAITH The IVese Ltmder is my weekly Bibk and i would be absolutely lost any week-end without it...
...New Y6rk, N. Y...
...New York, N. Y. (C...
...There are six of them in the principal cities of Bizonia...
...Mase ta I"-'4 his "real" faith...
...had no way of predicting how many people would actually go to the polls...
...For example, the socialist Jewish Daily Forward wrote editorially on January 19, 1945: "One must be blind not to see that here is not a case of an ordinary crime, but that we are dealing for the ideals they believe in...
...This cause will appeal to many—especially to trade union members...
...Many other cities had similar experiences, thanks to organized labor...
...A free sailing port in Italy, under Mussobni's order was given to the Jews, or the Irgun, as I should rightly call it...
...In his discussion of this "congressional election," Mr...
...The Fascists and Nazis were willing to let the Jews of Poland, Lithuania, and even Germany, go to Palestine, provided the British would allow them...
...Alexander writes about, the Jewish press in New York, although not in sympathy with the assassination of Lord Moyne, was understanding and felt that there was some justification for it...
...especially with regard to the Jewish situation in Europe...
...There is certainly no better time than now...
...At least 5.000 college students are being thrown out of the universities and technical college...
...There he says "if Gallup predicts a 50-50 split in the vote, and it turns out to be 52-48," then his percentage of error is 8 percent...
...BLISS DR...
...But once past that point, the "scientific" side of Mr...
...Martin is dealing out irrelevant abstractions when he talks of '48 being a "congressional election...
...Your correspondent should look at both sides of the picture...
...To be like God, the Christian must train himself to bear with the infirmities of his neighbor...
Vol. 32 • March 1949 • No. 11
