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DEAR EDITOR SHAPE I was very interested to read Melvin J. Lasky's account of his visit to SHAPE and NATO ["Inside SHAPE," NL, February 28], and although, as Secretary-General of NATO, I cannot...
...We are currently trying to obtain important materials relevant to such a study...
...Michelson said all this, he was absolutely right...
...I am no Zionist...
...Hoover misled the public with silly platitudes and optimistic lies when honesty and energy were required, that Mr...
...thought, reached the conclusion that this was an unguarded statement...
...DEAR EDITOR SHAPE I was very interested to read Melvin J. Lasky's account of his visit to SHAPE and NATO ["Inside SHAPE," NL, February 28], and although, as Secretary-General of NATO, I cannot fully subscribe to all of his ideas, I found them most stimulating...
...Mamaroneck, N. Y. Robert Nelson BRAIN-WASHING It is strange that the two American prisoners "suddenly" released by Communist China, who mouth the Red claim that the country of their imprisonment is a veritable paradise and the United States a vicious form of government, should want to return to the U.S...
...This would continue their peace and joy...
...Ben-Gurion, on second The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Not only is this quota-tion completely accurate, but anyone familiar with Mr...
...New York City William M. Goldsmith We are preparing a study on Communism and the churches, sponsored by the Fund for the Republic, and would like to contact anyone possessing information on: 1. Documented evidence of actual Communist attempts to infiltrate the churches or make use of clergymen ?Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Jewish...
...San Diego John Melvin Ricketson BEN-GURION My attention has been drawn to letter by David Ben-Gurion which appeared in the October 25, 1954 New Leader...
...If they prefer, they can call Riverside 9-7182...
...In justifying the swinishness of Republican campaigning in the last elections, the writers reached back 20 years to dig up the bogey of Charles Michelson...
...This is literally what he said when he related to me and to my wife his visit to Moscow in the early 1920s...
...This degree is planned for administrators and others in the role of professional leadership as opposed to the Ph.D...
...I do not recall just what Mr...
...Was Davar perhaps surreptitiously engaging in "cheap anti-Zionist propaganda...
...2. Examples of false and irresponsible charges of Communist influence on religion in America...
...Similarly, Mr...
...In particular, we are anxious to locate a complete file of the Party Organizer, and any other internal party bulletins or communications relating to their trade-union activities...
...I foresee young people of both the great democracies crossing the Atlantic to visit the other country and cement ties...
...The situation is still worse where left-wing youth is concerned...
...But the most important unit of all is slighted and passed over—I mean, of course, the human individual...
...But the main point of my articles was to explain why someone who, like myself, was a strong anti-Zionist over many years could not maintain the old anti-Zionist attitude any longer...
...Unless this day arrives soon, American labor and Government may regret the lack of attention they have paid to the predominantly anti-American youth of the British Labor party...
...Ben-Gurion says that my ''entire description of Israel's spiritual climate is a biased, shallow piece of cheap anti-Zionist propaganda...
...I look forward to the day when some enlightened body provides opportunities for young people in the British trade unions and Labor party to visit the United States...
...New York City George E. Axtelle...
...Local Labor parties and trade-union branches are particularly ignorant of real conditions in the U.S...
...In addition, we have had some difficulty locating Communist party materials used in attempts to capture control of various AFL and CIO unions, We would appreciate it if readers of The New Leader who possess such material or know of its whereabouts would contact us at: Fund for the Republic, 412 West 110th Street, New York City...
...As an active member of the Labor party and of my trade union, I am perturbed by the apparent lack of contact between the United States and Great Britain on the "grassroots" level...
...Hoover was incompetent and uncomprehending in the face of the Depression, that Mr...
...Incidentally, Davar, the organ of Mr...
...Ben-Gurion but two articles with my impressions on Israel...
...He explained to us that in his view Lenin missed his opportunity because he failed to come to terms with the Social Democratic parties of the West...
...May I point out that what I published in the Reporter was not an interview with Mr...
...The members of the class themselves agreed that The New Leader would be an admirable tool for this purpose...
...Michelson said when he "was masterminding the campaign to discredit President Hoover and the Republican party in 1932...
...Ben-Gurion asserts that my "interview" with him in the Reporter of April 27, 1954 misquoted him and that "not a single statement attributed to [him] is correct...
...planned for those who aim toward scholarship...
...I can hardly believe that anyone is naive enough to think that the Labor party in Britain is of no consequence, or that delegations of trade-union general secretaries are thoroughly representative of the rank-and-file...
...It is remarkable how mere longevity can wrap an egregious failure in the mantle of nobility and statesmanship...
...Paris (Lord) Ismay THE INDIVIDUAL While reading this week's New Leader, a long-recurring uneasiness within me suddenly took definite, conscious shape...
...The class in which I am using The New Leader is a. course entitled "Problems of Contemporary Life" required of all candidates for the Doctor of Education degree...
...Manchester, England Peter Donoghue AMENDMENT May I make a slight correction in your item "Between Issues" of February 28...
...We would appreciate it if persons with such information would contact us at: 500 West 122nd Street, New York 27, N. Y. New York City Ralph Lord Roy PAUL Carter HOOVER How touching it was to find several writers in your March 7 "Dear Editor'' column rushing to the defense of dear, poor Herbert Hoover...
...I would suggest that the American people raise a fund for the purpose of buying them a home either in Red China or in one of the other Communist countries...
...I think, therefore, that it would be well for you to develop a new department which concentrated on this problem...
...But if he said that Mr...
...Is it possible that Mr...
...Ben-Gurion denies specifically the words about Lenin which I attributed to him, I quoted him as saying that "Lenin was the one man who had a chance to save the world but missed his opportunity...
...Hoover bungled and floundered when action and intelligence were needed—if Mr...
...Nevertheless, I must applaud the democratic spirit which obviously guides your selection, and I would like to use your columns to discuss a problem that I consider very important...
...In today's serious books and magazines, the problems of various spheres of interest and partisan groupings are studied, analyzed and reported with thoroughness and enthusiasm...
...Thus, the youth on the Left always have a chance to go to Russia or some other Iron Curtain country, but only university students and the like ever go westward across the Atlantic...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. William Ross GRASSROOTS CONTACT While I find most New Leader articles refreshing, I deplore some of them...
...Coulsdon, England Isaac Deutscher HELP WANTED The Fund for the Republic is sponsoring a study which will objectively attempt to examine and evalute the impact of the Communist party on the American labor movement...
...Ben-Gurion's words on the "root-lessness" of non-Zionist Jews and his rather bitter attacks on them...
...The faculty of the School of Education believe that those who look toward professional leadership must have some insight into the crucial issues of our time...
...Ben-Gurion's party, saw fit to reproduce large parts of my Reporter articles...
...I illustrated certain points by three extremely brief references to him...
...As Secretary of the Manchester Federation of the Labor Party League of Youth, I have observed that the Young Communist League is always active in promoting delegations to and from the USSR...
...Ben-Gurion's strictures on Jewish writers for not writing in Hebrew are not only authentic but so true to character that I do not see what ground he may have for denying them...
...Ben-Gurion's recent writings will at once recognize it as such...
...One of these quoted Mr...
...he has made the same attacks in his own published articles...
Vol. 38 • March 1955 • No. 12
