Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Cites Role Played by Benton In the Fight Against McCarthy I have just read your editorial, "The Watkins Report" [THE NEW LEADER, October 4]. I like your reference to the wall...
...Deutscher came to see me in Jerusalem, and I remember discussing with him his last book on Russia after Stalin...
...Memphis J. A. BAYARD Author Corrects Inaccuracy In Council of Churches Article My article, "World Council of Churches at Evanston" [THE NEW LEADER, September 20], contains a misleading sentence that should be corrected...
...this is what coexistence means...
...In referring to the Assembly's debate on the Jews, I said that the original statement on the conference's main theme supported the State of Israel...
...Of the two "censurable" actions cited by the Watkins Committee, that concerning General Zwicker is an example of McCarthy's atrocious manners...
...Coexistence" is an abstract term of a high order, a kind of verbal tent which can cover many events on the space-time level...
...And off they go, hammer and tongs...
...John Doe selects the event which pleases him and then declares: "That's what coexistence means...
...I like your reference to the wall that was "hewn out of New England granite...
...This is not accurate...
...What is unfortunate about Shub's remark is that Kennan stands almost alone among Democratic figures in speaking publicly about these trends...
...Sde Boker, Israel DAVID BEN-GURION Cites Danger of Unemployment In a Cybernetic Revolution I was particularly impressed by Daniel Bell's "The Failure of Socialism and the Future of Utopia" [THE NEW LEADER, September 201...
...Episcopal delegate Charles P. Taft criticized the endorsement of proselytism (included in the original draft) largely on the ground that it would be harmful to interfaith good will...
...Atomic energy and cybernetics can make "men like gods" if the foolishness of tradition-serving politicians does not in the meantime consign humanity to decimation in a Third World War...
...Of course, coexistence does not include trade, diplomatic recognition, love or affection, but it does prohibit aggression...
...Representatives of Coptic and Orthodox churches in the Middle East and Africa joined in Mr...
...New York City NATHAN D. SHAPIRO THE NEW LEADER welcomes readers' comment, regardless of point of view...
...The rise or fall of such a kingdom after Jesus Christ is a fact of political history only, and is subject to the laws of such history and has nothing to do with either eschatology or Christian theology...
...To aid its plans, the Kremlin has created and broadcast its own definitions of peace, civil liberties, free elections, democracy and "coexistence...
...Georgetown, Conn...
...to intense scrutiny, noting that many of Roosevelt's heirs have so failed...
...They mistakenly feared political implications (i.e...
...As used by experts in labor relations, such as Ben Selekman, it describes a condition where union and management profoundly distrust each other but prefer a wary truce to outright labor warfare...
...The promises made to ancient Israel were all fulfilled in Jesus Christ...
...I voted for Adlai Stevenson...
...Their minds do not meet...
...Deutscher's entire description of Israel's spiritual climate is a biased, shallow piece of cheap anti-Zionist propaganda, and not a single statement attributed to me is correct...
...Your readers may be interested to know that the Allentown County Fair, while not so big, was also used by the CIO unions to distribute leaflets??particularly a sticker which said: "Don't blame me for your troubles...
...but he has dealt with it??on many occasions...
...DEAR EDITOR Cites Role Played by Benton In the Fight Against McCarthy I have just read your editorial, "The Watkins Report" [THE NEW LEADER, October 4...
...There is no evidence whatsoever that the Pauline doctrine about the Jews implies an earthly kingdom for the Jews at the end of time...
...Meanwhile, two dozen top theologians, most of them Europeans, made a public pronouncement of their concern for "the hope of Israel," which, they contended, "is wholly Biblical and is not to be confused with any political attitude toward the State of Israel...
...However, the issue is far from dead...
...Richard Roe selects another event and says: "You're crazy...
...I objected to his prognosis and said that, not being a Marxist, I don't believe there will be any essential change in Soviet Russia despite the "economic revolution" produced by Stalin...
...The debate raged over the question of the evangelism of the Jews and its relationship to the main theme, "Christ??the Hope of the World...
...Whether or not that revolution spells Utopia, society will have to find avocations for citizens no longer required for wealth production...
...This takes a little time, but not as much time as is wasted in verbal battle about the naked term up in the stratosphere...
...The quote that Mr...
...Bell recognizes that the steam-power revolution, which Marx and other socialists used as a basis for an economically collertivist system, wasn't the last revolution by a long shot...
...It may be that he should press the subject more vigorously, as Shub suggests...
...Deutscher's invention??whether naive or not, I cannot say...
...pro-Zionism) in the reference to "the ultimate fulfilment of God's promises to the people of ancient Israel" and in the sentence stating that "the Christian concern for the Jewish people, scattered over the whole world, is sign of hope...
...Indeed, the coming cybernetic revolution will make both Adam Smith and Karl Marx obsolete...
...Deutscher attributes to me about Lenin and the Russian Revolution is Mr...
...For space reasons, however, we prefer letters under 300 words...
...Irving Brown, in his article "Coexistence Is Poison," in the same issue, says that "this illusory word promises the world a formula whereby the lion will lie down with the lamb...
...New York City RALPH L. ROY Calls Public Relations Campaigns At County Fair Grounds Effective That was good piece by Sam Romer on the Minnesota State Fair [THE NEW LEADER, September 20...
...One of the proponents of cybernetics, Norbert Wiener of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is actually worried over the unemployment which he feels cybernetics is certain to create...
...STUART CHASE Too many uninformed or naive Americans are crying about our alleged opposition to "coexistence" with Communist countries...
...But far more important is the finding that McCarthy was contemptuous of the Senate when he refused to answer the Benton charges before the Gillette-Hennings subcommittee...
...they might be speaking different languages...
...A substitute resolution, passed over some opposition, recommended further study of the question...
...Niebuhr has no intention of lying down with anybody, but accepts "coexistence" as an unhappy condition, because he feels "survival is preferable to annihilation...
...These distorted definitions and statements fool only the most gullible...
...Charles Malik of Lebanon sent an urgent telegram to the Assembly, which read in part: "I wish to associate myself with the statement from the churches of Christ in the Arab world...
...New York City MARK STARR Readers Add to Discussion Of Semantics of 'Coexistence' As a student of semantics, I was greatly interested in Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Case for Coexistence" [THE NEW LEADER, October 4...
...Undoubtedly, these fairs do present an excellent opportunity for good public-relations work...
...Schenectady, N. Y. HERBERT M. MERRILL Says Kennan Has Warned Against Anti-Democratic Trends Here In an otherwise interesting and thoughtful review of George F. Kennan's Realities of American Foreign Policy [THE NEW LEADER, October 4], Anatole Shub makes one assertion which strikes me as unfair...
...What the speaker means may be very different from what the hearer understands...
...New York City JOHN HOWE Ben-Gurion Asserts Deutscher Misquoted Him in 'Reporter' I was very much perturbed by the article of Isaac Deutscher which appeared in the Reporter of April 27 as an intervie w with me...
...Anyone familiar with the true meaning of "coexistence" and the history and purposes of the Kremlin knows that the United States, since 1933 when it recognized Communist Russia, has honestly practiced coexistence with the Communists...
...All references to the conversion of the Jews subsequently were deleted by a 195-150 vote...
...May I suggest another term of a lower order, and less packed with emotion: "accommodation...
...The semanticist, wary of all high-order terms, would either not use "coexistence" at all or be careful to specify "coexistence" with whom, where, when, how, and for how long...
...Taft's opposition for a different reason...
...Coexistence between East and West is indeed subject to vast semantic confusion because of the many meanings which can be??and are??assigned to it...
...But, when you refer to the fact that the report would not have been possible without the moral stamina of Senator Ralph E. Flanders, it would be appropriate to point out that there was even earlier material for the "wall," namely, the moral stamina of former Senator William Benton...
...I therefore repudiate any implication from any statement that any political event concerning the Jews is grounded in the Bible or in Christian hope...
...Unfortunately, too, several delegates from the Arab states and at least one Chicago newspaper arrived at the same erroneous interpretation...
...Only the Communists object to "coexistence" and make war on their neighbors...
...He criticizes Kennan for "failure" to subject anti-democratic trends in the U.S...
...A cybernetic revolution is just ahead of us, a wholesale saving of manpower by automatic controls and machines...
...If Doe equates "coexistence" with what Chamberlain did at Munich, and adds the snarl word "appeasement," he is in another world of discourse from Roe, who equates it, let us say, with the unfortified border between Canada and the United States...
Vol. 37 • October 1954 • No. 43
