Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR POZNAN By their revolt in Poznan, the Polish people have struck a new blow for freedom -- as they have so often before in their long history. For the first time in years, the...
...Robert Ogre We definitely did not mean to imply that the Fund for the Republic was in any way connected with this supplement...
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...The bloody repression of the workers proves that the Communists have not changed...
...Indeed, we hope that the President and Congress, by joint resolution, will so express themselves...
...They remind the West to put its faith for peace and freedom in our secret allies, the people of the captive nations, not in their present rulers...
...In fact, the new is even more dangerous because it is more disguised...
...Milwaukee, Wis...
...Liberals, whether ADA members or not, are welcome...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph L. Rauh Jr., William V. Shannon and Gus Tyler...
...The revolt proves that the smiling face of the new Communism, which has been especially emphasized in Poland where the greatest changes were made, has not deceived the Polish people...
...The least we can do in the future is to make liberation of the captive countries of Eastern Europe, including East Germany, the first and major subject on the agenda of any negotiations with the Soviets...
...Like the East Germans who rose in 1953, the Poles remind us that the love of liberty burns brightest under Communist tyrants...
...Speakers include Mrs...
...But the least we can do now is express our sympathy and our solidarity with those brave workers...
...They were sending a message to us which we dare not ignore...
...For the first time in years, the Communists have been compelled to admit officially the existence of a great Polish underground resistance movement...
...They were fighting for our freedom as well as their own, and, in the light of history, it may one day be recorded that their heroic sacrifice has saved us by opening our eyes and renewing our faith...
...It is no accident that the Poles launched their revolt while many Western businessmen were on hand visiting the Poznan Fair...
...It warns us that Titoism is no substitute for freedom, because obviously the Poles hate the new so-called national Communism as much as the old version...
...As for action by the United Stales Government, there may be nothing we can do at the moment to save the Polish workers from Communist reprisals...
...As the preface states, the entire project was sponsored by the Tamiment Institute...
...New York City Christopher Emmett Chairman, American Friends of the Captive Nations QUERY In the biographical note on Nathan Glazer which appears at the end of the Editor's preface In your July 2 supplement, "A New Look at the Rosenherg-Sobell Case...
...ADA WORKSHOP Some of your readers may be interested in the summer workshop on politics which Americans for Democratic Action has scheduled for July 14-21 at Bard College, two hours by train or parkway from New York City...
...the concluding sentence states: "Currently working under a grant from the Fund for the Republic he has made a special study of the evidence in the Rosenberg-Sobell case.'' Was his research for the supplement financed by the Fund, or is that a false impression created by the construction of the sentence...
...Further information can be secured by writing to the undersigned at 1341 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D. C. David C. Williams...
Vol. 39 • July 1956 • No. 28
