Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Offers Clues to Analysis Of McCarthyite Psychology In Anatole Shub's review of the book, Mc-Carthy and the Communists [The New Leader, September 6], he asks two questions: "1. What...
...Neutralism" is isolationism and abandonment...
...Dallin remains true: German losses were much greater than those of the French...
...He would make no concessions to Spaak, Adenauer and other representatives of free nations at Brussels...
...France is now at the highest peak of production in its history...
...Henry Halpern, Secretary, 7 East 15th Street, New York 3, N. Y...
...Cambridge, Mass, William Henry Chamberlin Says Coexistence Debate Shows Words Have Lost Their Meanings The debate between Irving Brown and Rein-hold Niebuhr on "coexistence" [The New Leader, October 4] should reinforce the views of Stuart Chase, Hayakawa and others who believe words have lost their precise meanings...
...STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, as amended by the acts of March 3, 1933, and July 2, 1945 (Title 39, United States Code, Section 233) of The New Leader, published weekly at E. Strouds-burg...
...Samuel M. Levitas, Signature of Bus...
...Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of September 1954...
...France was not defeated in Indo-China by losses in manpower and money...
...Because Niebuhr is addressing himself to coexistence as ?? minimal description of non-warlike reality, while Brown is arguing about the word as he hears it in Europe, i.e., as a deceptive slogan employed by Communists and neutralists...
...Actual French losses were about 150 men per year, according to their own official figures...
...Didn't they know that there would be increased pressure elsewhere, because we are dealing with a malevolent enemy who moves from one position to another...
...Forest Hills, N. Y. Bernard Herman Scholarship of Russian Democrats Provides Much Enlightenment Boris I. Nicolaevsky's article on the Ryumin case [The New Leader, October 41 is another reminder of how much we in the free world can gain from the scholarship of Russian democrats...
...It was our allies, England and France, who regarded crossing the Thirty-eighth Parallel as "aggression...
...Neither Brown nor Niebuhr wants World War III...
...7 East 15th Street, New York 3, N. Y...
...correspondents and hastily-trained "experts.'' Bethesda, Md...
...is not "abandoning" any ally...
...Business Manager, Samuel M. Levitas, 7 East 15th Street, New York 3, N. Y. 2. The owner is: The New Leader Association, Inc., 7 East 15th Street, New York 3, N. Y...
...No one in this discussion has accused Mendes-France of "treason...
...Can we cure this situation with more billions of dollars...
...In the discussion entitled "Is France Our Ally...
...And Mendes-France is no more treasonable than Chamberlain was at Munich...
...State of New York ?? County of New York J 1. The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business manager are: Publisher, The New Leader Assn...
...Chicago Arthur J. Johnson Chamberlin Defends His Attack On Policies of Mendes-France E. F. Helms, in The New Leader of September 27, takes issue with my suggestion that French Premier Mendes-France may be remembered in history as Mendes-Moscow...
...2. The strategy of the Soviet and Red Chinese delegations at Geneva was clearly geared to the objective of bringing down the Laniel-Bidault Cabinet and substituting a Mendes-France Cabinet...
...A comparison with American losses in Korea is therefore not an apt one...
...What she did is keep up a constant fire of complaint about the enormous "drain" of fighting the Communists, and as a result obtained enough money from America to make a substantial profit on the war...
...You see these child-adults every day...
...He says in part that the "most frequent forms'' of masochistic strivings are "feelings of inferiority, powerlessness and individual insignificance...
...Its psychological and political doldrums are not due to poverty...
...Nominally, America paid 80 per cent of the war's cost...
...Since the French Union forces consisted of Germans, Senegalese and other colonials, the major point made by Mr...
...the onus is on France to prove that she will not desert everybody...
...The official French casualty figures show that the total number of men killed from 1945 to May 31, 1954 (a few months before the end of the war) was 34,000...
...There, I think, is where the debate should begin...
...America never bought an ally in "World War I or World War II...
...Salt Lake City John P. Farkas Supports Dallin's Article Asking "Is France Our Ally...
...They fear the unknown, and when they fear, they hate...
...For the record, he said he did not want those votes, but the Communists presumably knew what they were doing when they voted for him...
...As I see it, many people do not understand what Communism or a Communist really is in 1954...
...3. Mendes-France killed EDC with the decisive help of the hundred Communist votes...
...Harry Lichtenberg, Pres., 7 East 15lh Street, New York 3, N. Y...
...nor does either man favor appeasement...
...They are grown people who are not mentally mature enough to stand on their own two feet and be individually responsible in a democracy??an adult form of government...
...6. The journalistic support for Mendes-France comes from newspapers that are anti-American and neutralist in tone, like Le Monde and L'Express...
...both believe that some negotiation with the Soviets should be attempted wherever hard, real settlements are possible...
...George N. Alexander Correction Due to an unfortunate error, the review of Charlotte Mew's Collected Poems in the September 27 New Leader was credited to "Michel Farrar.'' The correct name is Michel Farano...
...The onus is not on America to prove that we did not desert France...
...Pa., for October 1, I954...
...The New Leader, July 261, I think the correctness of David J. Dallin's point will be missed if we concentrate on the accuracy of the German Socialist youth organization's claim that 46,000 Germans lost their lives fighting in Indo-China...
...Sweden and Switzerland have comparatively good housing, but are neutralist...
...5. The average number of copies of each issue of this publication so Id or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the 12 months preceding the dale shown above was 15,400...
...He advocated a policy of surrender in Indo-China as far back as 1950, which indicates that Anatole Shub, who took the affirmative side in this discussion, is in error when he says that the truce in Korea brought about the Indo-China debacle...
...4. Mendes-France was very ready to make concessions to Molotov and Chou En-lai at Geneva...
...5. One of the first acts of the Mendes-France Cabinet was to fire the anti-Communist Paris police chief, Jean Baylot...
...Mendes-France rose to the Premiership on wave of "peaceful coexistence," appeasement of Moscow and Peking, anti-Americanism and Germanophobia...
...Treason" is conscious working for the enemy...
...Editor, William E. Bohn, 7 East 15th Street, New York 3, N. Y.: Managing Editor, Anatole Shub, 7 East 15lh Street, New York 3, N. Y...
...And the Czechs said as much in 1938...
...As far as I know, you are one of the few publications which has consistently made available to your readers the expert services of such astute observers as Nicolaevsky, Raphael Abramovitch, David Dallin, Michael Karpovich and Solomon Schwarz ??who still understand Russia better than thousand U.S...
...Both men believe in free-world solidarity...
...If ?? Communist France is beyond Moscow's achievement now, a neutralist France, acting as a roadblock to effective Western defense, is a fairly satisfactory alternative from the Kremlin's standpoint...
...Just let them have fun and remain ignorant??Superman will take care of everything...
...They know all the batting averages, but they don't know whom they're voting for or the issues that concern their very bread and butter...
...This was an avowed primary objective of Soviet and international Communist policy...
...Yet, that still does not tell us in what manner and under what terms future coexistence should proceed...
...Of these, half were native Vietnamese...
...Circumstantial evidence for this possibility may be briefly summarized as follows: 1. Mendes-France was the first non-Communist who received the votes of the French Communists when appointed Premier...
...Moreover, it comes with ill grace to lay the blame on America for a Korean truce based on the Thirty-eighth Parallel...
...Rebecca L. Socolow Notary Public, State of New York Commission expires March 30, 1956...
...Because of Popular Front infiltration of American journalism during the Thirties, many fine Russian scholars were deprived of the audience they deserved...
...of the balance, about 1,200 were French officers...
...she never really did any fighting...
...The New Leader welcomes readers' comment, regardless of point of view...
...The fact is that we have coexisted with Communism for 37 years, and may for many years to come...
...better off we will be...
...For space reasons, however, we prefer letters under 300 words...
...Is the economic situation in France or her huge slums responsible for the present difficulty...
...Why, then, the debate...
...He will find his answers in Erich Fromm's book, Escape from Freedom, which deals with the psychology of the totalitarian mind??especially the chapters on "Mechanisms of Escape," "Authoritarianism," and "Psychology of Na-zism.'' Fromm uses the term "sado-masochistic ambivalence...
...Samuel Silverberg, Treasurer, 7 East 15th Street, New York 3, N. Y. 3. The known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds,mortgages, or other securities 4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fid??ciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, also the statement in the two paragraphs shown the affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner...
...lost more men in Korea in one week than France lost in Indo-China in eight years...
...They are willing to allow Superman to take them to war to get rid of that fear...
...The answer again is No...
...Treason is not to be confused with political error, shortsightedness, moral weakness, cowardice, pacifism or just plain stupidity...
...The quicker this is realized, the...
...There are no supermarkets for buying allies...
...It was the Foreign Minister of Vietnam who cried: "We were betrayed...
...The answer is No...
...And we have ?? right to ask for convincing proof...
...Finally, the U.S...
...The U.S...
...What within this man makes him what he is...
...2. What is the nature of the disease in our society which has enabled so many respectable people to tolerate him and his ways far so long...
...Italy, which has housing as bad as France, was for EDC...
Vol. 37 • October 1954 • No. 41
