Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR GRAIN GIFT William Henry Chamberlin in The New Leader of March 21 opposes making an offer of free grain to feed the Russian people, on the grounds that Russian starvation helps avert...
...It is my hope that our educational system will do an increasingly effective job of helping Americans, young and old, to utilize this leisure toward a fuller life and a more responsible citizenship...
...The real question raised by Matusow, and one which Dr...
...and asks: "What can one think of a party which makes a hero of such a character...
...This would continue a trend in our economic life that dates back many decades...
...Chamberlin, as one of our greatest Russian scholars, certainly knows that practically all the postwar U. S. visitors to Moscow reported on the good feeling toward America engendered by UNRRA food...
...I gather that this is an area in which the experts are not fully agreed, just as Mr...
...Glasgow H. W. Henderson CORRECTION Due to a printer's error, the second paragraph in the second column of William Henry Cham-berlin's March 21 article, "Of Scaremongers and Softheads/' contained a misplaced line...
...In using Malusow...
...Not only were they very grateful for such help...
...I wish we had a magazine like it in Britain...
...Dallas Henry W. Brent KUDOS The March 14 issue of The New Leader was so wonderful that I read every word of it...
...Certainly I can second Mr...
...By this reasoning, the Hoover Relief Mission after World War I, as well as UNRRA after World War II, was "objectively" pro-Communist...
...NL, December 20, 1954] with great interest and have consulted with some of my economist-colleagues at Berkeley about it...
...The angry Communist refusal of a small-scale offer to feed Albania is an indication of how the Kremlin hierarchs regard such American generosity...
...It should have read: "And, even if Red China were as powerful as del Vayo would have us believe, the question arises: How would our long-range position vis-a-vis the Red Chinese dictatorship be improved by giving in on the issue of Formosa ? Obviously, not at all...
...I am not sure I understand, however, how far he wants to go in regulating the work week through greater Government intervention in this respect than we now have...
...Bohn i? the same that decent people have thought of Communist partie-since 1017...
...how to make a living but also how to live...
...Fulfilment of some of the projections, like increased farm income and export surplus, is downright impossible...
...Government interference in providing a balance between production and consumption is exercised by its monetary and tariff policies, as well as by its being the largest buyer of our agricultural products and other basic commodities...
...Others are bound to create inflation and thus would reduce the purchasing power of large parts of our population, especially the increasing number of aging people...
...Mary R. Beard Thanks to The New Leader, 1 now have a far greater understanding of world problems than I ever had before...
...I wonder, though, whether he is not too pessimistic about the ability of American consumers to absorb the increased flow of goods resulting from this greater productivity...
...The answer to Dr...
...It seems to me that American life is already being "divided between decreasing work and increasing leisure...
...and it may be, as he warns, that we shall encounter serious difficulties because demand will not expand as rapidly as our full-employ-ment productive capacity...
...Grecc Harlf.y ECONOMICS I read Oscar Schnabel's "More Inflation or More Leisure...
...Sehnabers desire that some portion of this increasing productivity be taken in the form of added leisure for the American workingman...
...I am confident that he is correct that further substantial increases in productivity are in store, and that our productive capacity will continue to expand...
...At the same time, our Government is by far the largest exporter of American products...
...Sehnabel when he says that "We must start to tench our youth not only The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...They base their views on the continuation of our defense needs at least on the present level, on increased Government spending at home and abroad, on increased farm income and export surplus, and especially on wage increases which absorb and even surpass the ratio of Increased productivity...
...but at least the Communists' saving grace was that they knew what they were doing...
...DEAR EDITOR GRAIN GIFT William Henry Chamberlin in The New Leader of March 21 opposes making an offer of free grain to feed the Russian people, on the grounds that Russian starvation helps avert war...
...Berkeley Robert G. Sproul President, University of California Mr...
...Schnabel disagrees with some of the other experts regarding the possibilities of continuing the rapid rate of expansion in output which the American economy has enjoyed in recent years...
...an ignoble means toward a supposedly noble end, they fell into the same moral trap as the Communists...
...they knew very well that it came from America, not from Stalin...
...New MUford, Conn...
...Matusow was used by the Department of Justice, by solemnly constituted committees of the Congress, by the New York City Board of Education, and a number of unofficial groups...
...Be that as it may, I share Mr...
...Matusow*s shame is on the entire American people for permitting their elected and appointed officials to use Communists methods in fighting Communism...
...Bohn only obliquely considered, is: What can one think of a United States Government which, in its time, also made a hero of such a character...
...I wonder why Government cooperation in establishing a balance between production and consumption ?by coordinating the national working time with our increasing consumption ¦—should be considered as going too far if all this Government interference in our national economy is accepted and even propagated by the most fiery champions of our free-enterprise system ? MATUSOW After detailing the sick nature of Harvey Matusow, William E. Bolm in your March 21 issue remarks that the Communists are now glorifying him...
...It is no surprise that the party of I.enin-Stalin should report to the crudest type of adventurism, with absolutely no regard fni DEAR EDITOR CONTINUED the integrity of its agents or the intelligence of its audience...
...Schnabel replies: President Sproul wonders whether I am not too pessimistic and suspects that I advocate too much Government interference in balancing our production and consumption...
...It is reasonable to assume that a good gift now would meet a similar response...
...Of course, it is amusing to see the same persons and publications who glorified Harvey a few years ago now pillorying him, without the slightest evidence of remorse...
...Portland, Me...
...Certainly the problem the author discusses is a real one...
...I suspect that he might want to go further than I would be prepared to follow him...
...My doubts about our ability to absorb a potential maximum Gross National Product are primarily based on the projections of those who believe most strongly in that ability...
Vol. 38 • March 1955 • No. 13
