Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Author Suggests that Typo Be Start of Reform Movement I note in your April 12 issue the headline, "Books on the Middl East." Don't worry, because that's how it ought to be spelled....
...Fritz Neufeld was a printer by profession, but his restless mind searched far and wide in the arts and sciences...
...Consequently, Eisenhower appointed " Negro (who, incidentally, knows practically nothing about organized labor) because then the top labor representatives could not publicly complain about the appointment, even though their candidate was turned down...
...they feared that Senator McCarthy would attack Edelman because he had been a member of the Socialist party at one time, and so they were afraid to try to get security clearance for him...
...Kirschenbaum also deserve congratulations for their fine work...
...New York City Vic La Rocque Clifford Forster Praised For Civil Liberties Work I would like to express a thought regarding Clifford Forster's resignation as special counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Forster, however, is both simultaneously, and this is truly difficult...
...left in his will for this purpose...
...As one who was privileged to know Reuter well, I must say that this statement seems fantastic...
...A native Berliner, he joined the Socialist movement in his early teens and participated actively in its battles...
...The fact is, however, that Manteuffel, certainly a general in Hitler's army and a man of the Right today, was elected to the Bundestag on the Free Democratic party ticket...
...Maybe you can get some of the money that G.B.S...
...They are the unsung heroes of a struggle that has long engaged many good people concerned with making democracy more than word in political documents...
...I shall always be proud of having been a working colleague of his in the difficult struggle to maintain our traditional civil liberties...
...Vernon, N. Y. Alfred Baker Lewis Commends 'New Leader' for Article on Housing Project I was very much concerned with John Porter's story ["A Victory for Democratic Housing," The New Leader, April 26...
...Jim Crow" [The New Leader, March 15], claims a good deal too much for the Eisenhower Administration in the way of getting rid of segregation and discrimination...
...it is a law-abiding, democratic group...
...The small group of men who wanted it to return to its pre-Hitler activities have been expelled from the organization...
...Actually, however, the Stahlhelm of today is a veterans' fraternal organization exclusively devoted to the welfare of its members...
...This party is a member of the coalition that makes up the Government, and Manteuffel spoke in Berlin in defense of EDC and the Western community...
...In 1933, he was one of the first to be put in a concentration camp...
...Once, when I showed him a plainly militaristic, pro-Nazi postcard I had bought at a Berlin newsstand, he said to me with his wonderful smile: "Thank God we have a democracy in which neither I nor anybody else can control the newsstands...
...It is true that Eisenhower made a politically smart appointment of Ernest Wilkins as Assistant Secretary of Labor...
...He practiced his humanitarian ideals in everyday life and made many friends who are sad that he has gone...
...John Edelman of the Textile Workers had been urged for the job by Walter Reuther of the CIO...
...Buckeye, Arizona Upton Sinclair Early Anti-Nazi Fighter Is Mourned By Friends Fritz Neufeld died of a heart attack on March 27 at the age of 52...
...Then the Negro soldiers proved in Korea that they fought as well as other Americans, if not better, when integrated into combat units, but much more poorly when segregated-for the obvious reason that under segregation they felt they had little to fight for...
...The Reverends Stone and Davidson and Mr...
...It is easy to be a civil libertarian without being significantly anti-Communist...
...The Stahlhelm is not "notorious...
...Washington, D. C. Irving Ferman...
...He leaned over backwards to uphold the principles of free speech and assembly, e.g., the Harlan and Krauss cases...
...On the basis of these false premises, your writer poses the rhetorical question: "How many German officials now care very much about the totalitarian revival...
...He was also a member of the first group that sang "Die Moorsoldaten" in the peat bogs...
...And the end of discrimination in hotels and restaurants was the result of a suit by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, before Eisenhower was elected, and decided by the Supreme Court, none of whose judges at the time of the decision were Eisenhower appointees...
...Your magazine is to be commended for revealing the behind-the-scenes efforts to get a housing project approved in the face of prejudiced community feeling...
...But this job, according to past precedent, belongs to a member of organized labor...
...Surely totalitarians would have suppressed these meetings...
...The other [meeting]," your editorial continues, was "to hear Nazi General Hasso von Manteuffel...
...New York City Norbert Muhlen Says Ike's Role in Fighting Jim Crow Has Been Exaggerated Your editorial, "Ike vs...
...School segregation has not yet been ended...
...The end of segregation in public swimming pools was ordered under President Truman...
...Finally, your claim that the Eisenhower Administration is responsible for ending segregation and discrimination in Washington is completely wrong...
...Surely, too, the record of the last five years shows that German officials are concerned about the possibility of totalitarian revival...
...He came to the United States in 1947, via England, Norway and Sweden...
...West Berlin recently allowed two meetings: one of the notorious Stahlhelm," the editorial began...
...His social conscience never ceased to trouble him...
...But taking the first step is always the hardest in a matter of this kind, and the first step was taken by President Truman...
...they now fight it in public as a "betrayer of Germany and its soldiers...
...So, the integration job in the armed forces was completed...
...New York City Lotte Bernstein Max and Marcelle Breier Alex and Hilde Olsen Guenther Reimann Irving and Else Ravin Lotte Scheucher Challenges Recent Editorial On Rightist Meetings in Berlin I was shocked by the third item in the editorial, "Future Headlines" [The New Leader, April 19], which dealt with two recent meetings in West Berlin...
...President Eisenhower had little to do with it except in not blocking it...
...Integration in the armed forces has been completed under President Eisenhower, it is true...
...The truth is that West Berlin authorities acted exactly as genuine democratic officials should act...
...Let's start a reform movement...
...But Eisenhower and his Administration were afraid to make that appointment...
...The late Mayor Ernst Reuter would never have permitted either meeting," your writer claims...
...The ethics of controversy and the political goals The New Leader strives to achieve-one of them being understanding among all free nations resisting the Communist threat-should preclude such disregard for facts...
...It is likewise easy to be significantly anti-Communist without being a civil libertarian...
Vol. 37 • May 1954 • No. 18
