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DEAR EDITOR Readers Discuss Fitch Article On Evanston Church Convention As an American Protestant and exile from Communist Hungary, 1 am grateful to you for Professor Robert E. Fitch's article,...
...They were convinced patriots who made the desperate move in the last hour because they did not believe in final victory...
...Actually, however, it would make it possible for an individual Indian to submit an application to the Secretary of the Interior for a decree of competency that would entitle him to manage his own affairs...
...Wellfleet, Mass...
...For space reasons, however, we prefer letters under 300 words...
...2. These patriot...
...g. In December 1943 again, when Hitler suddenly canceled a conference in his headquarters after von Stauffenberg had prepared everything...
...Nevertheless, the Montana Power Company has indeed shown creditable broadmindedness...
...New York City Armin E. Mruck Takes Up Argus on Jibe At Cohn and Schine In his guest column...
...I have no quarrel with the mildness of that discipline: that is an internal church affair...
...But, with the exception of the Klamath and Menominees, who reluctantly agreed for their own complicated reasons, they affect only very small Indian groups in Western Oregon and Texas...
...Isn't this going just a bit too far...
...but very few have availed themselves of that privilege...
...Cohn and Schine, young men in their first adultery...
...What is mure, why misuse the word "adultery...
...I assume it was meant to serve as a counterpoise to Bela Fabian's July 26 article...
...Washington, D. C. W. V. Eckardt Notes Plots Against Hitler Prior to July 20 Revolt W. V. Eckardt's article, "The July 20 Plot Against Hitler" [The New Leader, July 26], brings to mind three points concerning the German Resistance: 1. Even if Hitler blamed the plot on "an extremely small clique of ambitious, unscrupulous and criminally stupid officers," Goeb-bels dared to express another opinion...
...Let Professor Fitch, in deference to his Christian conscience, look at who has done the major job of "labeling" and "isolating" party-liners in the Protestant world...
...f. The abortive plot in December 1943, when Hitler did not appear at a meeting of the Army Group Center on the Eastern front...
...That is apparently why Congressman D'Kwart in his "competency bill" sought to provide new incentive: ready cash for the land that individual Indians hold as part of the reservation...
...h. In Berlin, in January 1944, when Hitler could not inspect a new infantry uniform because of an Allied air raid...
...It stands to reason that his usefulness to Montana Power in this assignment would be quickly ended had he supported a measure which his charges bitterly resent even though his company favors it...
...Matthews...
...In what respect have these men been more personally "interested"—in the snide sense implied in the context—in exposing Communists than other anti-Comrnunists, or than anti-Nazis had been in exposing Nazis...
...August 9...
...Three young officers had volunteered to blow themselves up with Hitler by means of time-bomb which one of them was carrying in his rucksack...
...Two have passed the house unanimously...
...Let Professor Fitch look into single and symbolic case of Communist infiltration of religious areas: the pro-Soviet monthly, the Protestant...
...Dig That Crazy Idea, Senator: Bop Instead of COP Leadership" [The New Leader, July 51...
...b. When General von Hammerstein wanted to arrest Hitler on the Siegfried Line in September 1939, and Hitler called his visit off...
...e. The attempt of Scblabrendorff, mentioned in Eckardt's article...
...Gilbert LeKander Individual Indians have been able to petition the Secretary of the Interior for "decree of competency" since 1910...
...c. On November 8. 1939, when Hitler left the Munich Beer Hall five minutes before the set time...
...He will discover that this was done by the Matthewses...
...M. K. Argus writes: "The trouble with the investigation was that too many of its principals were adult men in their second childhood, instead of, like Messrs...
...He goes on to assert, in cavalier defiance of statistics, that "these have been extraordinarily few in number...
...At least six other termination measures have so far failed because Congress at last seems to have become more alert to Indian opposition...
...As a matter of fact, one of the Flathead Indians who came to Washington to testify against termination was an important employe of the company...
...churches themselves, but precisely by the dedicated anti-Communists whom he arbitrarily disapproves...
...The Eighty-third Congress, it is true, did pass a number of termination measures to which most of the affected Indians finally consented...
...In every case, the Indians have been fully consulted and represented by counsel, and have agreed...
...Seven leading officers had volunteered to arrest him...
...when Chamberlain and Daladier defeated the plans of Beck, Haider and Witzleben...
...One bill met with such strenuous objection from some of the Utah tribes involved that it is still held up in conference after passage...
...I understand he handles his company's relations with Flathead Indians...
...There is no apparent conflict between his employment and his views...
...Certainly Mr...
...came from all walks of life, but one group seems to be outstanding...
...Argus knows that these young men are not married, and I'm sure he was not using the word in its religious sense...
...This seems to contradict the oft-expressed idea that Hitler based his power and success largely on the conservative East Elbian junkers...
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...Professor Fitch, for example, brands J. B. Matthews and Rev...
...Some 183,000 Indians, together with other groups throughout the country, have protested against this bill...
...Six of the so-called termination measures...
...As Mr...
...My quarrel is with Professor Fitch and others like him who, while pleased that pro-Sovieteer-ing clergymen have been neutralized, not only fail to give credit to the fervent anti-Communists who did the job but even smear some of them for having clone it...
...Falsification and smearing are no sweeter because the victims are Matthews and Poling...
...But the most significant statement is the one that follows: "It is now the case that practically all of them have been labeled, isolated and...
...Thus, "persuaded" by his white neighbors, an Indian could, in a moment of weakness, break up the reservation and an entire grazing-land utilization scheme and deprive his children of the freedom to live as Indians...
...Alexandria, Va...
...New York City Eugene Lycos Questions Facts in Article on Legislation Affecting Indians W. V. Eckardt's article, "Terminating the American Indian'' [The New Leader, April 26], claims that Congressman Wesley A. D'Ewart's bill would "'free' the Indian—without his consent...
...The employe, Steve DeMers, is a. prominent Indian leader whom Republicans in Montana hoped to see as Indian Commissioner...
...He will find that one of the first exposures of that impious hoax appealed in The New Leader...
...I believe, have passed the Senate unanimously...
...On July 22, 1944, at ministers* conference at Hitler's headquarters, he said: "The men of the 20th of July did not act frivolously...
...But even The New Leader was, in that instance, merely carrying on the job that had been started by individuals like Dr...
...The fact that an important Indian employe of the Montana Power Company testified against the termination of the Flathead Indian reservation is just another indication of how strongly the Indians feel...
...They must choose between their satisfaction over the exposure of pro-Kremlin churchmen and their distaste for the exposers...
...so far as ecclesiastical discipline permits, neutralized...
...Red Clerics Visit U.S.,' which also dealt with the Evanston convention of the World Council of Churches...
...the Polings, the more courageous Congressional investigators by publicalions, come to think of it...
...Daniel Poling as "interested parties" indulging in "peculiarly vicious and irresponsible charges of Communism...
...he writes, ''American Protestantism has had its quota of consistent followers of the Communist-party line...
...LeKander, who is Congressman D'Ewart's executive secretary, well knows, opposition to HR 4985 was so strong and Indian consent so noticeably absent that it has been recommitted to the Indian Affairs subcommittee...
...3. There were actually eight, not three, different attempts to remove Hitler before July 1944: a. In September 1938...
...Certainly the isolating and neutralizing which he approves has not been accomplished by the Protestant The New Leader welcomes readers' comment, regardless of point of view...
...DEAR EDITOR Readers Discuss Fitch Article On Evanston Church Convention As an American Protestant and exile from Communist Hungary, 1 am grateful to you for Professor Robert E. Fitch's article, "The Temper of World Protestantism" [The New Leader...
...between their unquestioned right to dislike some anti-Communists and their stance on moral absolutes...
...That ecclesiastical discipline is ineffective is evident from the large number of Protestant ministers, some of them in fairly important church posts, who still follow the party line...
...A time-bomb built into a pillar a few feet from the platform exploded, killing and wounding several members of bis "Old Guard...
...Eckardt also suggests that the Montana Power Company is eager for termination of the Flathead Indian reservation...
...like The New Leader in its day...
...If the Secretary refused his application, the bill provides that he could go to court to establish his competency...
...Stephen Borsody I want to draw attention to a curious bit of unfairness in the article by Professor Fitch...
...Witzleben was taken sick and could not execute this plan...
...Naturally...
...Under the proposal, the views of the tribal government are not wanted and even the decision of the Indian Bureau can be overruled by state courts...
...What Professor Fitch really means is that Dr...
...The Fitches cannot have it coming and going...
...The Indian would have to make this application himself and no one could force him to do it...
...d. In January 1942, when von Witzleben wanted to stop two divisions moving from the Western to the Eastern front in order to use them to arrest Hitler...
...Going through an honor-roll of the leading figures in the Resistance, I found that, of 163 people, 61 were officers and 56 were members of the nobility (27 of them either barons or counts...
...Matthews, the Reverend Poling and their kind have brought fervor of conviction and the aura of intolerance that goes with intense feeling to their chosen task of neutralizing the Kremlin's agents, even in the ecclesiastical area...
Vol. 37 • August 1954 • No. 34
