Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Reader Lauds Critique Of Schine Pamphlet Although I was happy to become acquainted with The New Leader when a friend gave me a gift subscription, I had about decided not to renew...
...Five or six years ago, I began to respect it...
...no matter how worthy that system may appear to the enthusiastic follower...
...Hitler and Stalin spent a good part of their lives in driving wedges between man's responsibility to the state and his responsibility to God...
...Moline, III...
...In fact, since 1946 there has been a swing to conservatism in the entire country and in this same period sentiment for a third party has not grown...
...Hammondsport, N. Y. Olive M. Arland The New Leader is a "must" magazine in our house...
...There are many definitions of religion, but they all have to do with a "belief binding the spiritual nature of man to supernatural being...
...Let's have more of them...
...My compliments, gentlemen...
...Trenton, N. J. Mrs...
...From that untenable basis, he proceeds to re-echo pleas for the "true religion of secularism," careful to note a "sharp distinction between religion and supernaturalism...
...New York, N. Y. Rolf Kaltenborn During this period of worldwide struggle between the allied totalitarianisms on one side and democracy on the other, The New Leader is one of democracy's best weapons...
...If secularism were to triumph here, our life would not be much different from that in the Soviet Union, where the "true religion of secularism" reigns supreme...
...A belief or a faith in the purely natural is not religion at all...
...Palmer W. Wright Most enthusiastic appreciation for some wonderful recent issues...
...Gradually, I felt it was indispensable and subscribed, still thinking that among your contributors were too many Communists turned anti-Communist...
...Particularly welcome are the reasoned and perceptive analyses by true "vital center"-oriented anti-Communists like Sidney Hook, Reinhold Niebuhr and Granville Hicks...
...Robert S. Wolff I am pleased with what appears to be substantial improvement in your magazine's policy...
...DEAR EDITOR Reader Lauds Critique Of Schine Pamphlet Although I was happy to become acquainted with The New Leader when a friend gave me a gift subscription, I had about decided not to renew because of the multiplicity of magazines on our library table...
...This convinced me that I had to continue receiving The New Leader...
...Detroit, Mich...
...Lillian G. Buck Says Army-McCarthy Hearings Point Up 'New Leader's' Value After listening to the colloquy between Mr...
...and to the extent that they were successful they created living hells on earth...
...he is willing "to go along with Humpty Dumpty and let any writer use words exactly as he pleases"???by equating the words "secular" and "religious...
...Boris M. Joffe The coming of The New Leader is one of the bright spots of each week...
...it is pseudo-religion...
...There was too much hate...
...Then came your critique of G. David Schine's pamphlet ["Pvt...
...The New Leader, June 21], C. E. Ayres criticizes Ordway Tead for deploring "the prevalent atmosphere of secularism in which so much of college education proceeds...
...El Cerrito, Calif...
...Tenafly, N. J. Mrs...
...Richmond Lawrence T. King "New Leader" Policy Meets Reader Approval There was a time when I disliked your magazine...
...But we have not attracted great new forces to our party...
...Schine's Famous Pamphlet," by "William Caldwell, The New Leader, May 24], which, as far as I know, no other person or magazine had picked up for analysis...
...Therein lies the great danger of deifying a political system...
...Jenkins and Senator McCarthy on what the American public can do about Communism, I resolved to keep The New Leader coming into my home...
...In the United States, our system of government is based on the recognition that man's first allegiance is not to the state, but to God...
...National City, Calif...
...H. L. Huches Disagrees with Ayres's Definition of Religion In his article, "Can Education Stay Secular...
...Richard Chase Correction In David Dubinsky's article, "New York's Liberal Party After Ten Years" [The New Leader, June 14], the following paragraph was inadvertently omitted: "We have done all this with forces that have been historically and traditionally associated with us...
...Your "Eyeless in Gaza" editorial [The New Leader, June 14] is something you can be proud of...
...New York City Paul "Wohl I enjoy your magazine not through any sense of agreement or disagreement with its contents, but because it seems to be one of the few publications where some serious attempt is made to present both sides of current arguments...
...The critic then performs a semantic somersault...
...In the past year or so, I have come to admire The New Leader...
Vol. 37 • June 1954 • No. 26
