Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR The New Leader welcomes readers' comment, regardless of point of view. For space reasons, however, we prefer letters under 300 words. 1914-18 Interventionist Fans Flames of Old...
...New York City Matthew Low Upholds MRA in Fight With World Labor Group William E. Bohn's column in the February 15 New Leader on Moral Re-Armament's clash with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions impressed me immensely because of the extreme callousness with which the issue was handled in most of the conservative press in America...
...Prio denied that he had anything to do with arms smuggling, as charged, and stated that, like millions of other Cubans, he could not be prevented from opposing the usurper Batista, who now holds power against the will of the Cuban people...
...Eliseo Riera-Gomez Holds That Herberg Would 'Freeze Life and History' I have just read the February 22 New Leader and was annoyed at the letters praising Will Herberg's pompous clich?s ["Government by Rabble-Rousing," The New Leader, January 18...
...I thank him...
...will do it...
...It is time they realized that Ho Chi Minh is no Tito and that doing business with Malenkov is no more honorable than doing business with the Boche...
...If, then, there is life yet in the old controversy, let a 1914-18 interventionist put on record the conviction that, if this country is still to any extent a force for freedom—and so for peace—it is largely because in both world wars, though it stayed out far too long, it did eventually throw its weight to freedom's side...
...Carlos Prio Socarras, Cuba's constitutional President, ousted by a coup d'etat and now living in exile in the United States, had been arrested in Miami, fingerprinted and treated like a common criminal for alleged violation of the U. S. immigration laws...
...Milwaukee Francis A. Henson Director, Educational and Political Action United Automobile Workers of America, AFL I thought the Farrell piece was terrific, and I note that Harvey Breit, of the New York Times Book Review, thought so, too...
...Even the New York Times did not seem to consider it worthwhile to correct erroneous statements and commented only briefly on a letter to its editor by Sibnath Banerjee, president of the Indian Socialist unions, who was the central figure in the controversy...
...This smear hurts both MRA and the good name of the ICFTU...
...They are using socialist idealism to disguise a pernicious nationalism and are hunting for votes even at the price of surrender to the Kremlin...
...Brownell, Nixon, Summerfield, Know-land, Jenner, Velde & Co...
...Incidentally, I was pleased to see that The New Leader reviewed C. P. Oberndorf's A History of Psychoanalysis in America [February 1...
...New York City J. Meiers...
...1914-18 Interventionist Fans Flames of Old Controversy When I read, in the February 8 New Leader, reviewer Donald Robinson's summary characterization —with which I entirely agree —of 1914-18 American neutralism as "a mistake," I wondered whether it would pass unchallenged...
...Herberg would freeze all of life and history into a tiny ice-cube rack, where nothing can move, nothing can melt—and make sure nobody suggests contact with whiskey (that's risky...
...Latin American democrats were disturbed by the action of the New York Federal grand jury which indicted the legal President of a friendly country on the basis of suspicion and unproved charges, thereby making propaganda for Batista's totalitarian regime...
...Latin Americans do not understand how the United States, which fought for a UN General Assembly resolution condemning atrocities by the Chinese and North Korean Communists, can persecute Cuba's democratically elected chief of state while giving aid to the tyrant who succeeded him through an armed coup and stays in power only by torturing or murdering all those who oppose him...
...The latter's latest victims are Dr...
...The system of checks and balances may frustrate demagogy, but it may also frustrate democracy and make way for demagogues —as may well be the case in France...
...San Diego Francis R. Gleeson The readers of The New Leader ought to be grateful for this remarkable source of information, towering above what most other American magazines have to offer in the field of foreign affairs...
...Leyden, Netherlands Karel F. Gunning Farrell's 'Reflections at 50' Draws Praise from Readers I have just read with great interest James T. Farrell's article, "Reflections at Fifty" [The New Leader, January 25...
...Chicago Julian J. Steen Don't you think it is about time the editors of The New Leader grew up...
...As a Socialist student in Leyden, I have closely watched MRA in action, and I am convinced that, if anything will be able to bolster our democratic unions against apathy and Communist infiltration and help us achieve a. better society, the spirit of MRA will...
...These "France Firsters"—among whom are many French Socialists—are, on the one hand, trying to scuttle EDC and, on the other, trying to present Malenkov with a new satellite state in Southeast Asia...
...New York City Anita Bellow Readers Unburden Selves About 'The New Leader' I wouldn't do without The New Leader for anything...
...Mario Fortuny, who was murdered after being subjected to horrible tortures by Batista's Gestapo...
...for heaven's sake, gentlemen, start fighting the native fascists in the Administration...
...Colonialism of any kind is wrong...
...As an American citizen of Latin American extraction, I must call attention to the fact that our policy toward Batista is causing us to lose face in the eyes of people suffering under dictatorships throughout Latin America...
...Ridgely Cummings, writing in your March 1 issue, has reassured me that some of the 1914-18 neutralists are still alive...
...Please send me ten copies so I can show them to my friends...
...Are there never times when popular enthusiasm and social idealism may be constructive and necessary political factors...
...Once the French opponents of EDC change their stand, they may be able to bargain—and their hands should be strengthened by anti-totalitarians everywhere—against full-scale German rearmament under the treaty...
...They must also realize that the choice is between French colonialism, in which some of France's libertarian traditions still survive, and Soviet enslavement in Indo-China and elsewhere...
...New York City Walter K. Lewis Protests Recent Arrest Of Exiled Cuban Chief Cubans and Latin Americans generally were shocked last December to hear that Dr...
...Reds, Reds, Reds...
...Buffalo, N. Y. C. I. Claflin Upbraids French Neutralists For Stand on EDC, Indo-China The present attitude of the French neutralists on EDC and Indo-China can spell disaster for the entire free world...
...But a "France First" philosophy at a time when the free world is fighting for existence is even worse...
...Why don't you consider series of articles of this sort by leading novelists and poets...
...Its refreshing, virile "newness" of approach, and its balanced, unhysterical leadership in unappeasing, anti-United Front liberalism, should command a much larger audience...
...Armando J. Hernandez, brutally tortured by Military Intelligence agents, and Mr...
...He makes me feel younger...
...Coral Gables, Fla...
...It won't be the Reds who will suppress The New Leader...
...Approaching this age myself, I am tremendously impressed with his observations...
Vol. 37 • March 1954 • No. 10
