Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Poet Lauds Armour's Poems and Wolfe's Story on Diego Rivera I want to tell you of my delight in Richard Armour's contributions to THE NEW LEADER. For me, he is our wittiest writer of...
...He apologized to the Fuhrer: "We are not driven by care for...
...Probably there should not be a requirement to accept the lowest bid, for other considerations besides the amount of benefits are involved, particularly promptness and fairness in paying claims...
...But Mr...
...He told his congregation of the "divine call in [Hitler's] spiritual revolution, which is beginning to take place throughout the whole of our nation...
...There is one thing particularly which I think proper legislation can and should do...
...The man always hated the Weimar Republic, and a biographer says of him vis-a-vis the Nazis: "Their program for a national revival was fundamentally his own, with its vehement denial of all that was meant by individualism, parliamentarism, pacifism, Marxism and Judaism...
...Profession and social standing, race and nationality are today again being regarded by us as important facts...
...RICHARD GINDER Says Election Coverage Shows We Don't Have One-Track Mind I am always amused by those who complain that THE NEW LEADER has a one-track mind, that its only real interest is in fighting Communism...
...our church, but much more by care for the Third Reich.'' From his concentration camp, Pastor Niemoeller begged Hitler for permission once again to sail against the enemies of Germany...
...Dubinsky clearly shows, publicity about the management of welfare funds is the best preventive of mismanagement and graft...
...I should like to note, too, that Bertram D. Wolfe's "The Strange Case of Diego Rivera" [THE NEW LEADER, October 11.] especially interested me...
...Hahn is mistaken if he thinks that Niemoeller ever repudiated Hitler...
...Niemoeller and His Creed, p. 32) He voted Nazi in 1924, and he "welcomed January 30, 1933 [the day of Hitler's accession to power] from the bottom of his heart as the fulfilment of cherished hopes" (ibid., p. 33...
...Santa Fe, New Mexico WITTER BYNNER Denies That Pastor Niemoeller Was Opponent of Third Reich In THE NEW LEADER of September 27, Walter F. Hahn tells us ("The Rise of Neutralism") that Pastor Martin Niemoeller lashes out against West German Chancellor Adenauer "almost as viciously as he did against Hitler...
...Indeed, says his biographer, "Niemoeller knew himself to be a better National Socialist than the German Christians...
...For me, he is our wittiest writer of satiric verse...
...Portland, Oregon JAMES T. HARRIS Urges Competitive Bidding for Welfare Fund Insurance Benefits David Dubinsky deserves a great deal of credit for "Safeguarding Union Welfare Funds" [THE NEW LEADER, October 40...
...My last visit with Trotsky, whom I knew long ago in New York, was at Frida Kahlo's house, not long before the assassination??which both Trotsky and his wife told me was bound to come...
...Comparing Luther with Jesus, he arrived at the judgment, strange for a Christian divine, that "the German Luther is more important to Germany than the Jewish Rabbi of Nazareth...
...While thousands of his fellow-Germans were committing suicide or being beaten to death in concentration camps, while the whole of Christendom was praying for the victims of Nazi savagery, Niemoeller was thanking his Fuhrer: "We again feel ourselves created beings...
...It is good to know that an influential labor leader sees the need for legislation to supplement CIO and AFL efforts to prevent graft in the administration of these funds...
...That is to provide at least the chance for competitive bidding by requiring notice to the insurance industry generally when any particular fund is preparing to provide benefits for union members...
...But since the Western world has become awakened to the peril of Bolshevism, your coverage has, been excellently balanced between national and international affairs...
...These people are still talking in terms of THE NEW LEADER of 1944-45, when you quite rightly concentrated on the one important subject practically everyone else ignored: the perfidy of Stalin...
...As Mr...
...Keep it up...
...Niemoeller eventually differed with Hitler on a matter of church administration, for which??it is true??Hitler clapped him into a concentration camp...
...Huntington, Indiana REV...
...N. Y. ALFRED BAKER LEWIS...
...and publicity is certainly more valuable where there are competitive bids to be publicized in addition to such things as the expenses and salaries paid by the various welfare funds...
...He was a U-boat commander in World War I.) In the light of all this, one wonders how any civilized person can hear Pastor Niemoeller out, much less take him seriously...
...Vernon...
...Your eleven-correspondent report on the election [THE NEW LEADER, October 25] shows once again that you can??and do??cover any subject with the best of them...
...But, under a competitive system, union representatives and employer representatives would at least have to justify their decisions...
Vol. 37 • November 1954 • No. 46
