Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR SALISBURY Tom Whitney's review of Harrison Salisbury's An American in Russia [NL, March 21] was a refreshing change from your usual treatment of the Times's former Moscow...
...San Mateo, California R. N. SHARPE Delinquency, mental illness, ulcers, heart attacks, the false vocabulary of contemporary politics—these are only some of the symptoms of the general degeneration J. B. Priestley is describing...
...Dodd's disengagement is the best evidence of the sincerity of her anti-Communism...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
...the purpose of this effort, it would seem, was to obtain permission to see cities and places unseen by any Westerner since World War II...
...but I really cannot understand why the Capeharts, George Humphreys et al...
...If such evidence is ground for suspecting her anti-Communism, then no former Red from Ben Gitlow to Whittaker Chambers is dependable...
...He finds her suspect because her break with the party was not clean all at once and because she lingered in it out of affection for Communists...
...An exaggeration is noted in the review...
...It was about time that Salisbury's post-Moscow views were considered on their own merits, without hashing up for the umpteenth time what he wrote from Moscow...
...The fact that Indonesia is now a Communist-thinking country does not excuse the responsibility of Roosevelt, Hopkins and Hiss...
...Boston CONRAD A. VOGEL Apropos of Shub's quotations from The New Leader of the Yalta period: It might be interesting to cull some quotes from the Hearst and McCormick papers of that period...
...To me, the miracle of the reformed Communist is that, with all his intense in-service training in "Marxism-Leninism," he ever does effectively join the other side...
...it should not be a matter of endless debate, held over the man's every word like some sword of Damocles...
...It is time "progressives" woke up to the fact that both the Great Reform Bill and the Wagner Act passed long ago...
...You can't blame that on American nationalists and patriots, as Mr...
...One thing we can be sure of: Automation will not put the psychiatrists out of business...
...I found Professor Galbraith's estimate of stock-market conditions ["The Stock Market: Another 1929...
...DEAR EDITOR SALISBURY Tom Whitney's review of Harrison Salisbury's An American in Russia [NL, March 21] was a refreshing change from your usual treatment of the Times's former Moscow correspondent...
...I only wish some of your other (heavyhanded) contributors could take lessons from Priestley in how to make a serious point in a light, human way...
...it is now time to do something for man's soul...
...I seem to recall the New York Daily News openly advocating our giving Manchuria to Stalin...
...Bella Dodd's reluctance to expose her former Red associates did not go as far as Chambers's...
...To anyone who understands what complete Communist involvement means to an individual, it appears psychologically impossible for a Communist by a single step to change into an anti-Communist...
...The perjury involved in his denial of the espionage aspect of Hiss's membership is a more serious fault than Mrs...
...Surely they do not have that little faith in the basic health of the free-enterprise system...
...Huntington, N. Y. C. EDWARD HARVEY...
...Shub tries to do...
...It should have been obvious to your editors long time ago that Salisbury sent those pro-Soviet dispatches in an effort to curry favor with Soviet authorities...
...J. P. CONNEALLY PRIESTLEY J. B. Priestley's "End of a Party" in your March 28 issue was both delightful and very wise...
...and UNIVAC machines call the tune of our life...
...Philadelphia HARRY SHULTZ STOCK BOOM Senator Homer Capehart and the other representatives of Big Business who tried to tar John Kenneth Galbraith with the McCarthy brush must be paranoid...
...Dodd has declared cold war on more playgrounds, more secular schools, more libraries" is excessive rationalization, since his only suggestion of proof is that she says she came to the Communist party through the John Dewey Association...
...We have given the worker money and the intellectual a job (in Government or a foundation), and so the two strongest instruments for reform are paralyzed, while hucksters THE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Dodd's kindly words for her Red friends...
...Indeed, human history proves that no true conversion is ever sudden or facile...
...NL, March 28] to be sober, cool and not at all alarmist or unfriendly to the business community...
...far from it...
...Whether the success was worth the price he paid is a matter of taste...
...Canton, Ohio HOWARD VARGA YALTA Anatole Shub's remarks on Yalta in your March 28 issue were the typical liberal weaselworded guff...
...Had we listened to Herbert Hoover and other true Americans, we would never have given away these countries once we had possession of the atomic bomb...
...Bronxville, N. Y. J. B. ARMSTRONG BELLA DODD If one universalizes Walter K. Lewis's criticism of Bella Dodd [NL, February 7] as logic forces us to do, then Mr...
...The main fact about Yalta was that Alger Hiss led the dying Roosevelt by the nose and forced the giveaway of Eastern Europe and China...
...could not accept friendly criticism of certain speculative excesses in a constructive spirit...
...On the same basis of logic, my friend who records the instance of a mutual friend who drifted into the Communist orbit through, an interracial Holy Name Society can be called anti-Catholic...
...Of course, the charge of Communism hurled at Galbraith is simply ridiculous, and I think Capehart realized it at the time he hurled it...
...Lewis's regret "that Dr...
...Of course, all those isolationists backed their hero MacArthur in urging any and all concessions to Russia to get her into the Pacific War...
...Lewis's strictures could hurt all repentant Communists...
...In this Salisbury succeeded, and we should all be grateful...
...Really, the gradual nature of Mrs...
...It corresponds to what we know of the record of the best former Communists...
...The substance of Priestley's concern—the new society of gamesmanlike Bossmen and ad-addled Massmen which is growing about us—has been long apparent to such thinkers as Ortega y Gasset, Lewis Mumford, etc...
Vol. 38 • April 1955 • No. 14
