TELLS WERTHAM: SOVIET CRIME GOVTMONOPOLY
Marcus, Anthony
Tells Wertham: Soviet Crime Govt Monopoly From J. ANTHONY MARCUS I HEARTILY AGREE with Norbert Muhlen's review of the book by Fredric Wertham The Show of Violence in which he misinforms the...
...However, there is one expression which obviously is based upon a misunderstanding and which might cause confusion concerning Finland's status...
...I look forward to many more issues in which you will continue to take up the chalenge against all our enemies— and to present that positive, progressiveprogram against all forms of totalitai iansm...
...Sometimes also, when authoritative Catholic opinion is agreed, some of the darn Catholics will not heed...
...cumstances restricted and her freedom in many ways, particularly in questions of international policy, more nominal than real...
...2. In the Soviet Union, murder, theft, robbery, cheating, etc., on an unprecedented wholesale scale is a government monopoly...
...it is right and necessary to take intelligent precautions and protection against overt, subversive activities...
...Through government institutions, society tries to curb these criminal elements...
...The author says: "Sweden drew up plans for a United Defense Past with Norway and Denmark, with the intention of inviting Finland to join...
...There the government itself is the super-gangster-murder-torturercheat...
...Please don't frighten us Catholics so that we who write hesitate to state our opinions on leading issues for fear we'll be accused of telling the rest of our queer group how to think...
...N. Y...
...ADA Leader Lauds Stand Oh "Hysteria'' From MICKEY LEVINE Chairman, Manhattan West Side ADA YoUH EDITORIAL deriding the hysteria and general nonsense which is being dished out to us in the press and in public utterance concerning "Red" infiltration, expressed an attitude too few anti-communists have adopted...
...In the Soviet Union these criminals number in the millions, and their victims in the tens of millions...
...Through the fact that Finland fought during more than five years and sacrificed in dead every sixth man of those able to carry arms, the country was saved from occupation by both Russians and Germans and thus also from the fate of other Soviet border states...
...in spite of public opinion in the Northern countries and the sympathy for Finland in Scandinavia, there has been no sign of such an intention...
...But we must not fall into a trap engineered by our totalitarian foes...
...There are Russian troops in Finland ten miles from the capital and the Finish army is reduced to a minimum...
...As a result of the world war Finland was left in Moscow's sphere of interests...
...And—second—the alternative to communism is not fascism and reaction...
...If Dr...
...But this does not make void the fact that Finland is in ihe grip of Moscow and that her situation is precarious -and full of danger...
...We are the exponents of that "third force"—democratic action by the peoples of the world to preserve their freedom and to improve their condition of living...
...Through the peace she lost the South-Eastern part of her territory, the military gateway into the country from the East...
...New York...
...And if he is 'brave, he will apologize to his readers for having rushed to print with half-baked facts...
...As a matter of fact it would have been impossible for Finland to join such an alliance, as impossible as to adhere to the Atlantic Pact...
...It is our duty to defend liberal and radical solutions to sound problems—we dare not forfeit this leadership in ideas to the communists...
...Albrechtsen shows warm understanding and sympathy for these countries...
...This is the task of The New Leader and that was the tone of your editorial...
...In domestic policies Finland's old democratic order is for the time being intact and the influence of tho home Communists checked...
...New York, N. Y. No One Tells Cathoic Laity How to Think From HARRY W. FLANNERY I WAS VERY INTERESTED to read in your issue of June 11, an article by Ralph G. Ross telling Socialists how to think about how Catholics are told how to think about The Great Books...
...Liberalism and radicalism must not be equated with communism...
...Really, gentlemen, such nonsense is not worthy ot you...
...You have an intelligent publication, and its editors ought to be smart enough to know that everytime a Catholic, especially a priest, writes on a subject, he is not telling other Catholics how to think...
...Yet some of the most determined supporters of the Act are leading Catholic clergy and laymen...
...Calif...
...For instance, Leo III, Pius XI and Pius XII issued some encyclicals on Labor which were most definite, but some of us who have been trying to put these into action find some of our most difficult subjects are Catholic employers and Catholic business men of influence...
...Finland is independent in principle, but her independence is under the pcesent cir...
...It is correct and proper to expose Stalinist machinations...
...Commonweal, America, the NCWC Department of Social Action and the American Catholic Sociological Society have all agreed that the Taft-Hartley Act is "awkward and unworkable in many respects" and "an inadequate and shortsighted approach to the problem," one "based on a philosophy of repression rather than one of cooperation...
...Hollywood...
...Sometimes, you know, one Catholic does not give the same directives to other members of the Church as some other Catholic...
...I am sure we will forgive him then...
...If Dr...
...Therefore we can never sanction opportunistic deals with Francos, Perons, Schachts, etc...
...Wertham is honest with himself, he should go to the Soviet Union where he could easily establish the correctness of the above statements...
...Tells Wertham: Soviet Crime Govt Monopoly From J. ANTHONY MARCUS I HEARTILY AGREE with Norbert Muhlen's review of the book by Fredric Wertham The Show of Violence in which he misinforms the readers about Stalin's Heaven...
...Wertham would take the pains to live in Stalin's paradise, he would discover that: 1. In America there are individual criminals who murder, cheat, steal, etc...
...Ex-Minister Contends Finland Was Unable to Join Norse Pact From H. J. PROCOPE Former Finnish Ambassador to the United States ' IN A RECENT ISSUE, you published a short but interesting contribution by Viola Albrechtsen about Scandinavia...
Vol. 32 • July 1949 • No. 29
