Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Condemns False Liberalism Of 'Frontier,' 'Nation' I was very pleased to read John A. Despol's article exposing Frontier magazine in the December 21 New Leader. A year and a half ago, I...
...We are very grateful for American aid during the war and since, and those who speak for us have said so repeatedly...
...In the first place, there are some liberals who are not Democrats and some Democrats who are not liberal...
...They must make the best of things as they are and accustom themselves to their new surroundings...
...Owen should have waited until he could produce evidence of this assertion...
...depots and bases, but that does not constitute a "GI Question...
...San Gabriel, Calif...
...As for Communists in Government, the Republicans are now howling about cases regarding which they were as blind and silent as anyone else a decade ago...
...Moreover, you would not enjoy being told every so often that we "held the fort" from 1914 to 1917 and from 1939 to 1941, and ruined ourselves doing it, while you made up your minds that it would pay you to fight, and then grew rich in the process...
...Perhaps there are a few "vociferous, high-spirited young Americans" who find the "British way of life" very dull, and a few score jilted and sore young Britons in the immediate neighborhood of the U.S...
...So far, the present administration has shown far less effectiveness in that matter...
...It is disturbing how many people continue to regard the Nation as an organ of liberal opinion...
...Dorchester, England C. J. Kane...
...The New Leader, January 11], Robert E. Fitch seems to load the blame for any dishonesty and mistakes under Democratic administrations on the shoulders of all liberals...
...Florence H. Kirkpatrick Blames 'Sensation-mongers' For 'GI Question' in Britain I must take exception to John E. Owen's statement, in "U.S...
...At that time, practically the only people who seemed to realize the Communist menace were the Socialists and Social Democrats, and nobody would listen to them...
...As for the man from Wisconsin, most liberals think the indiscriminate cry of "Wolf...
...Wolf...
...Secondly, it seems self-evident that the only group that could be "overtaken by the consequences of its own acts" (my italics) is those who committed them...
...If only journalists looking for articles to write would leave the GI alone, there would be no "GI Question'' and nobody would worry about "anti-Americanism," which is not a real question here...
...There is no "GI Question" in Britain, except in the headlines of some of our—and your—sensation-mongering newspapers...
...No political party is immune to infiltration by corrupt elements...
...servicemen...
...Nor do we like reading or hearing every week that we should be grateful for American aid and that we must do more to deserve it...
...What evidence have they given of a change of heart, of putting the welfare of the country above sacred profits...
...I hope The New Leader keeps out of the red and continues, for we surely need it to point the way through the confusion created by such magazines as Frontier and the Nation...
...The "GI Question" is the same one that faces all troops who serve in foreign countries in peacetime...
...Finally, we cannot but admire the naive imagination that can conjure up capitalists, "reformed" by the New Deal and the Fair Deal, now striving heroically against the despicable ogre of Labor...
...There is no reason to think that these elements can kill the liberal movement any more than Teapot Dome killed the reactionary movement...
...A few examples would make this fanciful picture more convincing...
...Who are some of these tine fellows lobbying to have their special privileges, such as tax amortizations, etc., canceled...
...Portland, Ore...
...helps nobody but the wolves...
...Airmen in Britain" [The New Leader, November 23], that he expects British judges or magistrates to give vent to their political feelings in the event of their having to sentence U.S...
...It is true, however, that Britons resent being told how dull their country is and how much better things are in America...
...Ruth Haefner Opposes Blaming Liberals For Sins of Some Democrats In his article, "Are the Liberals Killing Liberalism...
...It is the duty of all citizens to strive to weed incompetents, crooks and spies out of the Government, but it is also their duty to stand by their principles...
...A year and a half ago, I took a trial subscription to Frontier, but never renewed because of its pro-CP slant...
...A little later, the Truman Administration started the task of weeding out Communists and prosecuting the leaders of the party...
...But Britons feel that to say "thank you" too often is insincere...
...I was also pleased to see the comment on the Nation's Communist-front advertisers...
Vol. 37 • February 1954 • No. 5
