Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Swedish Union Official Hails 'The New Leader' As the Swedish Miners' Federation representative to the Miners' International Federation, I find The New Leader extremely valuable....
...Through its activities over a period of years, ADA has developed contacts in Europe that an individual liberal would have a hard time matching...
...What other organizations did so...
...The West German trade unions have consistently supported MRA since the period when the late Hans Boeckler was their chairman shortly after the war, although individual members may have differed on the subject...
...Their wives were active in "front" and established organizations...
...However, as part of a highly organized conspiracy with key people in many places they were very active in selling Soviet foreign policy to Americans as liberalism...
...Let us use as a touchstone the proposed forcible return of Korean prisoners of war—an issue for true liberals to scream about if there ever was one...
...the only reference to Lenin was an admiring one...
...therefore, he must go heroically against and beyond reason...
...Using the prestige of Harvard, they wrote and reviewed books, lectured at forums and before church, women's, labor and youth groups...
...Was this activity to prove so much wasted effort...
...Washington, D. C. Sidney Koretz In his review, Daniel Bell agrees with Granville Hicks that the threat of present-day domestic Communism is not serious...
...In reality, it was not founded until the year 1923...
...Washington, D. C. James T. Long ADA Offers Travelers Chance To Meet European Liberals Your readers who are planning to travel abroad this summer may be interested in ADA's Trips Abroad program, which makes it possible for travelers to meet leading European liberals...
...Yet, it was selected as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, while the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Herald Tribune, Saturday Review and Chicago Tribune joined many other book-review sections in singing paeans of praise...
...Bell and Hicks might have a point if the Harvard faculty Communists had spent all their time bewailing their lack of numbers...
...It was Lenin, during the initial split from the Mensheviks, who spoke out against all "softness...
...He once remarked that it would not matter an iota if three-fourths of the human race perished...
...There were, in all, fourteen faculty Communists at Harvard in 1938...
...The Communists did not dominate the cultural field," so why the fuss...
...Greenwich, England R. C. Mowat Correction In the article, "Turkey and America," by Ahmed Emin Yalman [The New Leader, April 19], the impression was created through faulty editing that the Turkish Republic was in existence as early as 1919...
...Anyone interested in further information is urged to write the undersigned at Americans for Democratic Action, 1341 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington 6, D. C. David C. Williams Disputes Letter Attaching Moral Re-Armament Group Kenneth V. Russell's letter in The New Leader of March 22 suggests that he has been misinformed about Moral Re-Armament...
...The fact is that MRA was proscribed by the Nazis, its adherents suffering persecution and death because (to quote a Gestapo report on the subject) "it supplies the Christian garment for world democratic aims...
...The implication that MRA supports or is supported by the Nazis is actually the opposite of the truth...
...The New Leader review exposed the true nature of this book...
...The AFL and the American Legion took a firm stand...
...the important thing was that the remaining fourth should be Communist...
...They recommended "promising" students for fellowships and jobs in colleges, foundations, industry and Government...
...The DGB (Federation of German Trade Unions) pursues the same policy as the British Trades Union Congress in not interfering in the personal convictions of its members...
...Whit-taker Chambers rightly thinks that Communists are "hard-headed" and realistic...
...They wrote letters, often under assumed names, which appeared in newspapers throughout the country...
...Reason is on their side, he maintains...
...In one of James Burnham's books (I believe it was Containment or Liberation...
...I was amazed once when I heard the American Legion's anti-Communist expert express impatience with those he called his "bourgeois" employers for not understanding the problem's enormity...
...Or take Theodore White's book, Fire in the Ashes...
...Stuvsta, Sweden Edward Mattson Add Footnotes to Review Of Granville Hicks's Booh I would like to add a footnote to Daniel Bells fine review of Granville Hicks's Where We Came Out [The New Leader, May 17...
...These included such phrases as "best book of the year," "most thoughtful," "superb analysis," "'valuable appraisal," "inspiring...
...Russell's hoary "quotations," all of which are either false or taken out of context, should be decently interred...
Vol. 37 • May 1954 • No. 22
