Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR THE NEW LEADER welcomes readers' comment, regardless of point of view. For space reasons, however,we prefer letters under 300 words. Chides Dr. Bohn for Criticism Of Nixon's Campaign...
...Nixon was only telling the truth...
...In reading Dr...
...Alton Ochsner's book, Smoking and Cancer [THE NEW LEADER, November 8], led me to consult the book itself for an answer to a question that has been troubling me for some time: Why do pipe and cigar smokers seem to be in as little danger as non-smokers, while cigarette smokers are in mortal peril...
...In any event, the news that the ALP was able to muster 44,862 votes is disconcerting...
...Evidently, cigarette paper itself has malignant effects...
...If the ALP and the Communist party have become, as the New York Times said editorially, "virtually indistinguishable in recent years," then we must conclude that 44,862 persons in our midst still voluntarily associate themselves with the Communist conspiracy...
...That would settle the medical problem, although I am sure it would not satisfy the Puritans who have so long and so persistently been trying to establish the evil nature of tobacco and liquor...
...Once again, he reiterates the known evidence that heavy cigar and pipe smokers are in a class with non-smokers, considerably less imperiled than moderate cigarette smokers...
...Ochsner's book, I discovered no apparent contradiction with these researches...
...New York City SOL STEIN Does Tobacco Cause Cancer??Or Is It Cigarette Paper...
...How the persons under discussion could be at the same time Communists and Democrats is difficult to make out...
...Bohn is ordinarily a very unprejudiced, objective individual, I wonder how he arrived at this conclusion...
...Researches which were publicly disclosed at about the time Dr...
...WILLIAM E. BOHN Urges Positive Support for Ike In Place of Negative Attacks It would be impractical in a letter to attempt a point-by-point refutation of the innumerable charges pressed by Eugene V. Rostow ["Ike's Foreign Policy," THE NEW LEADER, November 221...
...Underground agents are not likely to risk exposing themselves by attempting to establish residence qualifications for voting...
...The Administration's refusal to act on rash impulse, its genuine concern for the sentiments of our foreign allies, its continued and successful efforts to weld intra-European cooperation, its fervent support of the United Nations, its effective propaganda moves against the Soviet Union, its atoms-for-peace proposals ??these are only a few of the Eisenhower policies for which we should be grateful...
...Even during the turbulent Thirties, and especially since that time, it has concentrated its efforts on a small core of Communists who operate??chiefly underground??in concert with non-indigenous Soviet agents...
...The affidavit which Mr...
...Didn't the Roosevelt "dictatorship" give the Communists all their opportunities in this country...
...The Soviet Union is hardly naive enough to suppose that it can accomplish much here through the ballot...
...Ike and his chief advisers deserve commendation, not censure, for their forthright efforts to promote worldwide good will at the risk of committing political suicide for themselves and their party...
...In the general opinion of those who have studied the matter, the New Deal program reduced the impact of unemployment and so reduced the appeal of Communism...
...This, it seems to me, makes the cigarette manufacturers' problem a simple one??replace the present paper...
...Suffice it to say here that, in my humble judgment, this article is perhaps the most rabid piece of partisan propaganda that has appeared in THE NEW LEADER in the three years that I have been a regular reader of your provocative journal...
...The other campaign statement was that "the Communist party has determined to conduct its program within the Democratic party...
...I have a suspicion that, if the President were a Democrat and not a Republican, most self-styled liberals, instead of holding his foreign policy up to ridicule, would be chanting his praises as a "great and courageous statesman of vision and peace...
...Wouldn't it be true to say that, from the time Fianklin D. Roosevelt took over until Truman went out, Democrats constituted 99 per cent of the country's Communists, fellow-travelers, left-wing labor-unionists and other left-wingers...
...New York City RALPH L. ROY Says ALP Vote Doesn't Reflect Seriousness of Communist Menace In some quarters, the fact that the American Labor party was not able to hold its place on the ballot in the recent election is being taken as sign that there is no serious Communist menace in this country...
...There is every reason to suppose that Soviet agents are still operating in this country, and the more important their work is to the Soviet Union, the less likely they are to have voted for the ALP...
...Your publication of the opening section of Dr...
...Since Dr...
...Rostow's haphazard hysteria is balanced only by his careful omission of important material and his bold distortion of the facts to which he makes reference...
...To prove that this is true, one would have to show that the Communist party had made a decision to work along with the Democrats...
...Yellow Springs, Ohio RUSSELL B. STEART The column referred to quoted two statements by the Vice President...
...Stewart, cutting loose from the Vice President, ventures the statement that 99 per cent of the Communists have been Democrats...
...Beaumont, Texas ARTHUR MCNABB...
...But is the danger presented by Communist sympathizers in the United States reflected in their showing at the polls...
...Our correspondent has probably been led to think as he does because there was an increase in the number of Communists and fellow-travelers during the Great Depression...
...One was to the effect that Adlai Stevenson had not changed since "he testified for Alger Hiss...
...This is an alarming fact when we consider the harm that has been and can be done by a single Communist sympathizer...
...Bohn for Criticism Of Nixon's Campaign Statements In the November 29 issue of THE NEW LEADER, William E. Bohn implies that Vice President Nixon's campaign remarks were mud-slinging...
...Instead of Rostow-style negativism, Americans of both parties who are interested in preserving and strengthening the foundations of international cooperation should speak out in defense of Ike against the current upsurge of what the New York Times and other newspapers of moderation have labeled "Knowlandism...
...Stevenson signed with reference to Alger Hiss merely said that, to the best of his knowledge during the time that he knew him, Hiss had had a good reputation...
...Ochsner's book was on the presses indicate a possible explanation...
...It would seem that Mr...
Vol. 37 • December 1954 • No. 50
