Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR United, Neutral Germany Held Now Possible, Desirable What's wrong with the idea of a united, neutral Germany, which William Henry Chamberlin and others seem to regard with such horror?...
...We must deal with the nationals of those countries, with private enterprise and not the governments, which are shot through with corruption...
...The sorry misbehavior of our allies during the Korean War must not be forgotten...
...here is the text: "I read with great interest the description of life in Soviet Georgia by your Moscow correspondent, Harrison E. Salisbury...
...After several weeks, the first letter arrived...
...Only those who have felt the lash of Soviet tyranny know a friend when they see him, even without having received American handouts...
...There were two Armenians living in the United States...
...When the Soviet Government invited Armenian refugees to settle in Soviet Armenia, they decided that one of them would try it out...
...The second correctly describes it as made up of "Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Old Catholic denominations...
...Prices are low, and the stores are full of merchandise...
...Our true allies are behind the Iron Curtain...
...Tucson, Arizona HARRIET GARFIELD Recalls Advice to 'Times' On Salisbury Three Years Ago Mark Vishniak's article, "Salisbury Re-Viewed" [THE NEW LEADER, October 18], reminded me of a letter I sent to the Editor of the New York Times three years ago which the Times did not see fit to print...
...It was an astute political analysis, but, even more, it was justly sympathetic to the human being and painter who somehow transcends his political foibles...
...The first, entitled "The Temper of World Protestantism," dealt with the Council throughout as if it were exclusively an organization of Protestants...
...Acheson (a vicious amalgam, I confess, though I can't say who is its victim) proposed German rearmament...
...We have complete freedom, do not have to fear anything, and even the secret police is nice and helpful...
...Surely that little Reichswehr is not going to defend Europe...
...the recent spectacle in Indo-China leaves no reason to think that those who showed ignorance or cowardice there would be any better in other regions...
...Buffalo, N. Y. C. I. CLAFLIN Finds Wolfe Piece on Rivera Both Astute and Sympathetic Many thanks for Bertram D. Wolfe's article, "The Strange Case of Diego Rivera," in THE NEW LEADER of October 11...
...They made up "code: Whatever was written in black ink should be taken at face value...
...While the Kremlin has millions of stooges in the free countries, we have hundreds of millions of allies behind the Iron Curtain...
...There is only one alternative to the H-bomb—a revolution in the Soviet Union...
...As for the industrially backward countries, let them bestir themselves first in their own behalf...
...In one point, however, the second is a decided improvement on the first...
...I may be stupid, but I can't see the purpose of the so-eagerly-pursued West German rearmament...
...The Kremlin knows that a single Communist soldier in Allied territory means war with the United States...
...what was written in red ink would be the opposite of the truth...
...I seem to remember the late Ernst Reuter saying a united Germany was worth 100 divisions...
...It was written in black ink and said: 'Everything is just wonderful here...
...And there are plenty of men in the free world who know how to make use of the explosives in the Kremlin's orbit, even if it is beyond the comprehension of men like Harriman, Kennan and Mumford...
...The only thing I have been unable to get is . . . red ink.' "May I suggest that you send your Moscow correspondent a bottle of red ink...
...Let them come here and engage our great engineering firms to tackle their industrial and agricultural problems...
...And, if we try, it will never be appreciated...
...Noting that, according to Mr...
...Anglicans—known in this country as Episcopalians—commonly describe themselves as at once Catholic and Protestant...
...New York City J. ANTHONY MARCUS...
...They must show their anti-Communism by uprooting the fifth columns in their midst before we can call them allies...
...Chamberlin and Mr...
...Crawling on our knees begging them to take some more of our billions will not buy their friendship...
...Besides, if the Kremlin wanted to sweep across Western Europe, it could have done so even before Mr...
...You can buy everything: beautiful fruit, choice cuts of meat, delicious pastries, foreign newspapers, and even cars, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and television sets...
...If we can succeed in freeing 18 million East Germans from Communist tyranny, that will be worth more in every respect than 12 divisions under the command of Generals Speidel and Heusinger...
...We have very good jobs and wonderful apartments...
...Both lead to appeasement and ultimate disaster...
...Why not, in the name of peace and the European future, make one last proposal for free all-German elections supervised under UN auspices not by Bonn and/or Potsdam, but by substantial European and Asian neutral forces...
...Orthodox and Old Catholic repudiate the appellation Protestant altogether...
...It should always be remembered that Roman Catholics are not alone in claiming with insistence the Catholic name...
...Salisbury, the Georgians lead a comfortable existence, that food is plentiful, cheap and varied, that strains and tensions are absent and that everybody talks freely to American diplomats, I cannot resist the temptation to tell your readers a story popular among Georgia's neighbors, the Soviet Armenians...
...His "competitive coexistence" has as much chance of keeping peace in the world as George Kennan's lamentable "containment...
...It will not be done by our bureaucrats...
...All three are, equally with Protestant denominations, members of the World Council of Churches and of its constituent National Councils...
...New York City PETER MEYER Sees Revolution in Soviet Union As Only Alternative to H-Bomb Our experience with our so-called allies seems to have been lost on W. Averell Harriman [THE NEW LEADER, September 13...
...We must begin doing the same to them...
...that, and not NATO, is the real deterrent...
...Oakland, California ARTHUR ENDICOTT Notes Broad Representation At Evanston Church Assembly Both your treatments of the Evanston session of the World Council of Churches [THE NEW LEADER, August 9 and September 20] were on "high level...
...the other one stayed in America, waiting for his friend's reports...
...The Soviet Government has been giving the free world a fine headache since the war...
...It's all well and good to talk about the Soviet refusal to hold free elections for a united Germany, but in candor we must confess that we are holding out for the Adenauer regime in the same way the Soviets are holding out for the Ulbricht dictatorship...
...If some of our allies do not trust us and would like to try their luck under the hammer and sickle, the sooner they learn the blessings of life under Soviet tyranny the better the chances for their salvation...
...I think it may be of some interest to your readers now...
Vol. 37 • November 1954 • No. 44
