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DEAR EDITOR LASTING VALUE I have just re-read Boris I. Nicolaevsky's "The Return to Stalinism" [NL, April 19, 1954]. Even though it was written eleven months ago, Mr. Nicolaevsky's knowledge of...
...it is a clash of factions of rival hierarchies...
...The "gigantic military state" in Asia which Professor Spykman feared was not Russia but "a modern, vitalized and militarized China of 450 million people" whose long-run power potential he felt to be more inimical to our interests than the threat of Japan...
...for a Far Eastern policy based on geopolitical realties...
...I believe that, once they admitted the inadmissibility of war, they might be more capable of coming up with political solutions to the problems posed by aggressive Bolshevism...
...Dean Griswold merely comments that in many circumstances an inference is not warranted and that, if inferences axe to be drawn, the conclusions should depend on the "nature of the question asked" and the "nature of the tribunal asking the question...
...Ebullient and incautious in speech, meddlesome in action, and lacking the theoretical equipment that is the pride of every high-ranking Communist, he has also earned a deal of unpopularity in circles ranging from the peasants whom he once tried to force into 'agro-towns' to the bureaucrats whom he is now exiling to the steppes...
...I was in the United States from 1943 to 1946 as a prisoner of war and have become interested in your country, its policies and its people...
...It is no mere clash of personalities that torments Soviet political life...
...The fact that less blood is shed nowadays does not mean that the Byzantine intrigues and secret shifts of power between groups have become any less acute...
...Ross should therefore have supplied data showing the amount of opium exported by China just before the Nationalists fell...
...Washington, D. C. SIDNEY KORETZ MATUSOW In the article "Harvey Matusow's False Witness" [NL, February 21], Sol Stein correctly stated that I introduced him to Matusow...
...In my opinion, the export of opium between 1939 and the fall of the Nationalist Government could have increased tremendously...
...THE NEW LEADER, I think, will help me get a true picture of the problems and events that challenge the free world from day to day...
...Tas says that "nothing is more delusive than the efforts of 'practical' men to de-ideologize our struggle, when the very freedom of the world is at stake...
...Bad Godesberg, Germany MARGOT STARKE MAC ARTHUR Reinhold Niebuhr's "Anatomy of American Nationalism" [NL, February 28] was disturbing...
...Have we erred in treating China as a great power now when it is that only potentially...
...The main count against Khrushchev is his involvement since 1950 in grandiose agricultural flops...
...If this is so, then Dean Griswold is on very sound ground and takes a position quite opposite to many professional liberals...
...Ross gives various facts which prove that opium and various other drugs come from Communist China, but I found no evidence to substantiate his contention that the mass exportation of dope is officially carried out by the Red Chinese Government...
...He feared that it would be difficult after the war to find public support in the U.S...
...Its cavalier treatment of General Mac-Arthur's magnificent address on war in the atomic era was hardly what I would expect from a Christian liberal...
...The General went on to say that Red Chinese interests were parallel with those of the Soviet, but that they showed "the same lust for the expansion of power which has animated every would-be conqueror since the beginning of time...
...Your editorial of February 28 said: "It would be surprising if Khrushchev lasted any longer than Malenkov...
...For instance, Mr...
...Surely the members of the Soviet ruling group, riven by factional struggles, will not long tolerate repeated failures by Khrushchev...
...He also] has confessed that industrial productivity—which must show a constant rise according to Stalin's theories—is sinking...
...In the last of his three lectures, Dean Gris-wold mentions what I believe is the real problem of the privilege against self-incrimination?namely, the inferences which may be drawn from the exercise of the privilege...
...Unfortunately, he does not come to grips with this problem...
...Hagen, Germany FRIEDRICH JAEGER KHRUSHCHEV I was quite struck by how similar your estimate of Nikita Khrushchev's chances of remaining in power was to that of the Economist here...
...That is, he agreed with the view, as expressed by Walter Lippmann, that "the Chinese revolution is as Chinese as the French revolution was French and the Russian revolution was Russian...
...In his address to Congress on April 19, 1951, General MacArthur said that it is "for its own purposes" and with "its own concepts and methods" that China is allied with Soviet Russia...
...Duluth HARDY JORGENSEN NEW READER I have just read your ad, "30 Years of Devotion to Freedom and Democracy," in the Progressive...
...That China could be a menace in its own right, rather than simply as a satellite of Russia, was predicted by Professor N. J. Spykman in his America's Strategy in World Politics, published while we were at war with Japan...
...Bronx, N. Y. MARVIN MARKMAN...
...I thought, too, that after his experiences with the AYD and McCarthyism it would be well for Matusow to see that there are anti-Communists who could never compromise with an Albert E. Kahn or a Joe McCarthy...
...New York City CLIFFORD FORSTER DOPE PEDDLING After reading Irwin Ross's "Red China's Dope Peddlers" [NL, December 20, 1954], I feel that the facts presented do not justify the conclusion drawn...
...If the balance of power in the Far East is to be preserved the United States will have to adopt a similar protective policy toward Japan...
...Such a policy, he maintained, required that we bolster the sea power of Japan against the land power of China...
...Nicolaevsky's knowledge of the Soviet Union is so thorough that the article casts a remarkably revealing light on the current Khrushchev-Malenkov affair...
...The Economist wrote on February 12: "Khrushchev himself seems a most unlikely personality to remain at the top of the Soviet hierarchy for long...
...Many liberals believe that no inference at all can be drawn from resort to the privilege...
...Surely, if MacArthur, the professional soldier par excellence, is now willing to proclaim publicly that atomic war is suicide, it is time for the so-called "hard" liberals to rethink their position...
...London JAMES PERCY RED CHINA In his article on "The Formosa Crisis" [NL, February 7], Sal Tas says that "it is well not to overestimate China's military power...
...I would very much like to read your publication, which you classify as a soundly liberal magazine...
...Ross compares the amount of opium exported from China in 1939, when the Nationalists were in control, and the amount exported from China at present...
...I think New Leader readers should know, however, that I did not endorse Matusow's forthcoming book, nor did he indicate that he had lied about his past testimony...
...It is unfortunate, however, that he has not spelled out precisely where he stands on this point...
...Particularly in matters concerning Communism and the Soviet Union, I have always found that THE NEW LEADER is not only worth reading but worth re-reading...
...Khrushchev's swaggering bluster seems hardly enough to hold the Soviet humpty-dumpty together...
...In effect, this is to say that exercise of a constitutional right provides a general immunity for the user...
...New York City WALTER K. LEWIS FIFTH AMENDMENT I would like to comment on Dean Erwin Griswold's talks on the Fifth Amendment, which in book form were reviewed by Alan F. Westin in THE NEW LEADER of February 21...
...Doing precisely this, Professor Spykman turned out to be a true prophet, although he did not foresee what he would have deplored as a straitjacket of "moral-ism," which prevents us from seeking "diplomatic" relations with enemies and their supporters in order to maintain some influence on and knowledge of them...
...It would seem that here Dean Griswold accepts the thesis that no universal immunity is given by the use of the privilege and that each user must take the risks attending such use...
...I brought Matusow to the American Committee for Cultural Freedom because I wanted it to see the documentation he claimed to have...
...Twice in one generation," he said, "we have come to the aid of Great Britain in order that the small offshore island might not have to face a single gigantic military state in control of the opposite coast of the mainland...
Vol. 38 • March 1955 • No. 11
