Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Closer Reading of 'New Leader' Would Help the Administration Salvador de Madariaga's contribution to the "Alternatives to the H-Bomb" symposium [The New Leadeb, August 9] was indeed...
...Then Washington might not be so confused and dazed by each new Kremlin victory...
...This course, however, you call "intolerable," and I pretty much agree...
...DEAR EDITOR Closer Reading of 'New Leader' Would Help the Administration Salvador de Madariaga's contribution to the "Alternatives to the H-Bomb" symposium [The New Leadeb, August 9] was indeed excellent...
...Dallin, however, I think that our differences with the French can be resolved without abandoning them to the Kremlin...
...New York City A. J. Muste Increased Support of France Considered Vital to Democracy To support his thesis that France is not worthy of our support ["Is France Our Ally...
...Under the circumstances, you point out, the only peaceful course left is to press for the best conditions of "coexistence" that the West can obtain...
...For space reasons, however, we prefer letters under 300 words...
...According to the French Foreign Legion, which released figures to refute this booklet, there are 19,000 Legionnaires serving in Indo-China, 11,400 of whom came from Germany or countries behind the Iron Curtain...
...But the existence of other non-Communist nations is important to the United States, even if they are not bewitched by all our words and deeds...
...We helped rebuild Germany economically and physically, while we virtually neglected this ally...
...The time has come, I think, for us to decide whether our conflict with Communism is simply a personal fight or is being waged in defense of the democratic ideal...
...The men who weep today that French labor is Communist-controlled (which is not true) are the ones who years ago sabotaged sincere efforts to help French labor clean its own house...
...To some degree, France has cause to doubt our veracity...
...France gave America the chance to kindle the fires of democracy and liberty...
...Dallin appears to have been influenced by the current tendency to impute moral weakness or treason to those who do not accept all our points of view...
...If Premier MendesFrance can make his country genuinely independent once again, we shall have a great deal to be thankful for...
...It should be noted that the Marshall Plan did not have its desired effect because French industrialists grew fat and the workers received few of its benefits...
...If your excellent series on "Alternatives to the H-Bomb" is a way of saying that we cannot turn back to policies that have been advocated and tried, and that we must not surrender but must open-mindedly seek new approach, it may prove an epochmaking event...
...If the latter is true, as we insist, then the United States must strengthen and support democracy abroad by every legitimate means...
...If she has 5 million Communists today, it is only because we were more concerned with making an enemy a friend than with making a friend more certain of his own future . and ours...
...The New Leader welcomes readers' comment, regardless of point of view...
...But France's basic love of liberty can be counted on for support in the event of all-out war with Communism...
...The New Leader, July 26], David J. Dallin quoted from a pamphlet published by the German Social Democratic youth organization which made the unlikely claim that 46,000 young Germans had lost their lives in IndoChina and 33,000 were missing...
...Needless to say, this aided the Communists numerically and propagandawise...
...Unlike Mr...
...Certainly this would be much better than having France degenerate into a mere client state...
...Indeed, the ultimate effectiveness of France as an ally depends on how we help her...
...New York City Lawrence M. Nevins While I can understand France's fear of a new German army, I, too, am concerned about her refusal to recognize that Russia is a military threat...
...I only wish the Administration would read your pages more closely, so that it could understand the real nature of the Communist menace...
...Your magazine is doing a splendid job in its uncompromising stand against the diabolically clever propaganda of the Soviets...
...It seems clear now, as you suggest, that the Administration in effect is repudiating both liberation and containment...
...The men who now deplore the surrender of Hanoi were the first to condemn an effective Point Four program...
...Arthur Kelley New Foreign Policy Approach Urged as Key to World Peace Your editorial entitled "The New Isolationism'' [The New Leader, July 12] is a fine piece of writing and a trenchant analysis of the trend in American foreign policy, even though I disagree with much in your own program...
...What we really have to fear is a piecemeal surrender of this liberty by opportunistic politicians who have forgotten that Popular Frontism was a dismal failure domestically, as it must be diplomatically...
...But what then...
...San Jose, Calif...
...It should be apparent, too, that we cannot combat the Kremlin by underwriting colonialism and poverty...
...New York City Walter K. Lewis...
...Certainly any deal worked out under these conditions will represent an uneasy and in many respects ignoble truce, and will not contribute to genuine peace...
Vol. 37 • August 1954 • No. 35
