Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Calls Recent Niebuhr Article Ideology for U.S. Imperialism Your lead article in the April 12 New Leader ["Why They Dislike America"] expresses a political and moral ideology designed...
...How he can support the discredited regime on Formosa, or that old reprobate Syngman Rhee, is something I cannot fathom...
...New York City W. T. Couch Raps Chamberlin, Bohn for 'Holier Than Thou' Stand I am renewing my subscription for another year...
...Winnipeg, Canada Joseph Thomson Reader Commends 'New Leader' For Sensible Makeup Policy Enclosed is a check to renew my subscription for the coming year...
...If the intellectuals berate McCarthy, how can the ordinary man see this as other than a sign that McCarthy may be an honest man...
...I think there are good reasons for believing that Senator McCarthy did not generate McCarthyism out of nothing...
...Imperialism Your lead article in the April 12 New Leader ["Why They Dislike America"] expresses a political and moral ideology designed to extend American imperialism...
...Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
...Westport, Conn...
...I can only speculate whether it is bureaucratic blindness, racial prejudice, or just an urge to deport these unfortunates somewhere that is motivating the Department...
...It would inevitably lead to U.S...
...who is in charge of the department which seeks to give this aid and comfort to the Chinese Communists, should be asked to explain why he is permitting an action so foreign to our country's traditions, so contrary to its present express position, and so hostile to its interests...
...How many intellectuals recognized that this was what the country was doing and said so during World War II, when telling the truth was most needed...
...This seems ironic, since this country fought for some additional months in Korea because it would not be a party to physically handing over to Communist China former Chinese soldiers who refused to go back...
...Could it be that there is an important relation between the two??one that the intellectuals have so far failed to examine in public...
...involvement in distant colonial battles, and eventually to full-scale war...
...Reinhold Niebuhr advocates velvet-glove diplomacy for potential allies and, by implication, the iron fist for those who disagree with Nixon and Eisenhower...
...Nevertheless, the Immigration Department has "found" that these Chinese will run no real risk of "political persecution" if they are returned to Communist China and is proceeding to deport them...
...In any event, the proceedings are shockingly immoral and, like most immoral political acts...
...When he attacks the British as appeasers, he also shows his poor caliber...
...What is more, it took the bombing of Pearl Harbor to get it into World War II...
...Fresno, Calif...
...But if this was not their intention, how could it have happened if the people had not been deceived by their leaders, who, of course, may have first deceived themselves...
...3. An unconditional-surrender war with a re-education program attached looks perilously like the proposition: "We will kill you if you do not submit to our will and allow us to make you over in our image...
...This is not a case of the Immigration Department enforcing a harsh provision of a harsh law??the Immigration Department is in fact violating that law...
...In addition to the enjoyment your magazine gives me, it is most satisfying merely to have to turn a page to continue an article...
...Name Withheld Reader Says Intellectuals' Mistakes Created McCarthy I wish to suggest that the view of Senator McCarthy most frequently expressed in The New Leader is dangerously misleading...
...I find many New Leader articles exceedingly interesting and stimulating, but I can never accept the "holier than thou" attitude of writers like William Henry Chamberlin and William E. Bohn??especially Chamberlin...
...Ridgely Cummings Questions Attempt to Deport Chinese to Communist China The Immigration Department is seeking to deport some 400 Chinese to Communist China under the standards of the McCarran-Walter Act...
...Could it be that the errors our intellectual leaders committed during World War II were so gross that they are still blinded by them...
...2. If every man, woman and child in the United States had been a convinced Communist during World War II, it is doubtful whether the country could have worked more effectively to build up the power of Communist Russia...
...Surely we could not reproach them if they chose this latter course...
...I believe The New Leader could do worse than give some serious attention to this possibility...
...The following questions, if answered honestly, may throw some light on this problem: 1. "We know that the people of the United States did not take part in World War II in order to turn Eastern Europe and China over to the Communists and create the prospect of World War III or of continued retreat before the expanding power of the Communists...
...How can the people know that they are not continuing the deceptions of World War II...
...4. Is the earlier belief in Honest Joe Stalin, fostered by our country's political and intellectual leaders, any easier to explain than the present widespread belief of the people in Honest Joe McCarthy...
...It could be that those of us who are now criticizing him are partially responsible for what he is doing...
...waited until 1917 before it got into the fray...
...And in World War I the U.S...
...The article could well have been entitled, "Why the Rest of the World Should Fear the U.S...
...This is certainly more sensible than the custom adopted by most magazines, which makes it necessary for the reader to hunt for the second page of an article...
...This is an old trick of yellow journalism, but surely one can expect more objectivity in The New Leader...
...Where would he and many others be today if not for the gallant British in their lone stand against Hitler's might...
...Could it be that the American intellectual has led in the deification of America...
...5. How can the people believe what the intellectuals now say...
...Even that act forbids deportation of an alien to country where he may suffer political persecution, and, on that ground, deportations to Russia and the satellite countries of Eastern Europe have in many instances been halted...
...It seems to me that some writers conveniently ignore the facts...
...Can this failure be repaired now by any means whatever...
...It seems clear that the result of deportation in this case would be (1) virtually certain death for the deportees (or, at the minimum, "political persecution" in some labor camp), or (2) a "deal" whereby the deportees, most of whom have lived in this country for a considerable time, will use their special knowledge of this country against us...
...Margaret O. Williams...
...unwise...
...He softens his program a little by suggesting economic generosity neatly tailored to the racial and psychological prejudices of those who accept our domination, but his reasons are expediency rather than morality...
Vol. 37 • May 1954 • No. 19
