Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Approves of Navy's Action In Ellen Wilson Case The article, "I Was a Security Risk" [The New Leader, May 3], gives the impression that Ellen Wilson should not have been discharged from...
...This attitude now permeates public affairs and takes the form of a compulsion to find corruption, mismanagement and even treason everywhere...
...Raleigh, N. C. Herbert Collins...
...Being deprived of a high-school and college education was one of the keenest disappointments of my early life...
...However, the offender has the burden of proving his repentance...
...Washington Crossing, Pa...
...Leslie Kettle Decries Importance Given To Political Apostates Never before have so many people made a profession of studying their past associations and denouncing them as errors and heresies...
...Miss Wilson attended Trotskyite meetings as a college student insufficient grounds, in our view, for dismissal...
...Thus, no man shall have the effrontery to forget, fail to confess or refrain from diagnosing himself hereafter...
...In Chapter I, Section 7, we find the following: "Keep thee far from a bad neighbor...
...they have be clouded the enactment of legislation in general...
...Indeed, our time has produced a new type: the renegade who acquires an aura of importance because he has left the Communist camp...
...It is a pity that a magazine like The New Leader does not receive the support it deserves...
...The rest of my review hinging, as it did, on my original statement must have made little sense...
...associate not with the wicked...
...We consider it significant that she volunteers, without shame, to make that fact public...
...DEAR EDITOR Approves of Navy's Action In Ellen Wilson Case The article, "I Was a Security Risk" [The New Leader, May 3], gives the impression that Ellen Wilson should not have been discharged from her job with the Navy...
...Then they even go on to accuse and inform on others...
...But even now, when we hear so much about educational needs, what do the supposedly educated read...
...When a person old enough to vote, marry or carry arms decides to associate with "bad neighbors" or the "wicked," he becomes responsible for the association and tends to be judged thereby...
...I prefer the Navy to be too strict rather than too lax in situations like Ellen Wilson's...
...Conspirators do not belong in Government installations...
...There is no doubt that associating frequently with "bad neighbors" and the "wicked," which includes gangsters, fascists and Communists, is a barometer of one's thinking...
...That these people often subsequently take equally untenable, dogmatic positions is ignored for the sake of admiring their departure from Communism...
...The fact about her one-time Trotskyite connection is volunteered by Miss Wilson as a result of her own soul-searching...
...He always reveals in his attitude to the witnesses the motives and tactics that characterize his own actions...
...Cambridge, Mass...
...This took several hundred years to write and contains the outstanding philosophies of the greatest Jewish rabbis...
...We are at the stage where scandals are political necessities...
...I had tried to sum up my interpretation of Kafka's attitude by putting in his mouth the following words: "Kafka's anguished cry, as I hear it, seems to say: 'I am unworthy of loving, and you, Milena, are mistaken about the object of your feelings.'" The statement I had attributed to Kafka was printed as follows: "I am unworthy of being loved, and you, Milena, are mistaken about the object of your feelings...
...What it grows into depends on the political motives of the individuals who guide the questioning of the informer...
...Recent political investigations have not only resulted in a minimum of significant legislation...
...As the librarian in a Navy installation, she surely could get information about things the Communists would like to know...
...Rego Park, N. Y. Paolo Milano Cites Philosophical Support For 'Guilt by Association' In connection with the rather heated discussions concerning ''guilt by association," which many claim should not be applied to Communists or fascists, may I quote from the Ethics of the Fathers...
...What cloistered lives we led then...
...Her work should not be connected with any of our defense forces...
...By encouraging the habit of self-denunciation and self-analysis in public, however, we encourage a kind of political gossip that has no place in a free society...
...Katharine Taylor Regrets Choice of Picture Used in Review of Trotsky Book David Shub's masterly review of Isaac Deutschcr's book on Trotsky [The New Leader, May 3] was, in my opinion, greatly weakened by the inclusion of Ludendorff's picture...
...Athens County, Ohio Mrs...
...It seems to me that a person who attended Trotskyite parties and meetings is really a security risk...
...One of the main points of the article, however, was that she was never told the reasons for her discharge...
...a heretic like Miss Wilson if she is still that should be right at home in a library, public or private.The Editors Recommends Hook Article To American Educators I have just finished reading Sidney Hook's "Robert Hutchins Rides Again'' [The New Leader, April 19...
...An example of this is Judith Coplon...
...If that were not enough, they become authorities and authors who proclaim what they have been, currently are, and hope the world will become...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. Nathan D. Shapiro Reader Praises 'New Leader' For Caliber of Articles In these days of charges and counter-charges of treason, graft and corruption, it is refreshing to read well-reasoned, scholarly articles that deal with vital issues...
...The changing of one phrase, in the middle of my piece, threw the meaning so off balance as to make the line of my argument quite incoherent...
...The habit of informing and accusing, once germinated, tends to grow...
...Of course, religion and democracy recognize and welcome repentance...
...I believe it is a very important article which should be read by educators all over the country...
...Once the habit of informing grows, it is easy to become the judge of all men especially Communists, anti-Communists, other apostates, and men who have erred without publicly denouncing themselves...
...and abandon not the belief in retribution...
...But, perhaps, all this is only natural...
...What could be more fitting, in a review of Kafka, than a little fateful error...
...It cannot be presumed...
...Sol Feinstone Reviewer Calls Attention To Kafkaesque Mistake My review of Kafka's Letters to Milena [The New Leader, May 10] must have been confusing to your readers...
...Bronx, N. Y. J. Minkin, M.D...
...It is not at all paradoxical that Senator McCarthy made an issue of ''motives'' during the first session of the hearings on his row with the Army...
...The professional apostates profit from the fact that people's past mistakes are today subject to intense scrutiny...
...Unless the present administration constantly unearths some scandal, it runs the risk of exposing itself to charges of mismanagement...
Vol. 37 • May 1954 • No. 20
