Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR JAPAN The June 18 issue of The New Leader has just reached me here in Japan, and, having read George F. Kennan's article, "The Future of Soviet Communism," I feel that I must...
...Is it too much to ask when the united labor movement will regard the workers on the farms as fellow workers and stop getting benefits for themselves without regard to the needs of—and sometimes at the expense of—those who toil in the fields...
...In my capacity as a teacher at Rikkyo Daigaku (St...
...Once again, we find the farm workers—those least paid and least privileged wage-earners...
...At the same time, Mr...
...After all, they don't get unemployment insurance or minimum wages or much of anything else that other American workers have come to regard as basic rights...
...Buffalo C. I. Claflin CORRECTION May I note a slight error of fact in your excellent pamphlet, "The Crimes of the Stalin Era...
...One would be joyful indeed over such news, particularly coming from the South, except for the next to the last paragraph in the story, which gives the whole thing away...
...second, his recent journey, on his way to England, across the United States, which included many appearances on radio and television, and speaking in person to more than forty church groups...
...I would not presume to interpret all the considerations that must have entered into such a decision...
...Each national episcopate is autonomous...
...Pages 69, 70 and 143 of Naught for Your Comfort explicitly attest that in a long series of "synodical resolutions and episcopal pronouncements" the Anglican Church of South Africa has officially and consistently spoken out against the Government's racial policies...
...In the next to the last paragraph of the review, it is stated more directly: "Small wonder that Huddleston has found himself in conflict with the hierarchy of the Church of England...
...Undeniably, Communist elements are exploiting the situation for all it is worth, but the fact remains that there are sound reasons for Japanese irritation at our continued presence...
...Too much is at stake to allow that to happen...
...When it is considered, it is discounted as "Ieftist'-inspired, but my own personal conviction is that there is much less "leftist" influence than is claimed...
...Croatia for the Croats" or "Cambodia for the Cambodians" can go just so far as a slogan...
...New York City Fay Bennett Executive Secretary, National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc...
...This observation is buttressed by, first, the publication of his book...
...Buffalo, N. Y. Thaddeus Miller FARM WORKERS Your issue of July 16 carries a story by Foust Richards entitled "Louisiana Repeals Right-to-Work Law...
...made the butt of anti-labor legislation...
...it was informative and intelligent, a welcome contrast to some of the emotion-cluttered nonsense we read on such subjects...
...the date has been corrected in the second printing of "The Crimes of the Stalin Era," now being distributed.—Ed...
...During my stay here, I have gradually come to the position where I, too...
...each bishop's discretionary powers are wide...
...And it seems hardly contestable that he is in a better position to pursue that appeal when out from under the jurisdiction of the government he has set himself to break...
...Probably the most disturbing factor in the present situation is the tendency on the part of certain of our official representatives to discount this feeling—largely, I fear, because student opinion is not taken very seriously in the United States and, therefore, these officials see no reason to take it seriously in Japan...
...This time, it looks suspiciously as though the city workers got the right-to-work law repealed in their favor at the expense of their fellow workers from the country...
...His book itself is an appeal to that higher court...
...From it we can understand both the similarities and the differences between Communist student agitation and workers' unrest, a situation which will continue to produce ferment but has not yet brought about the necessary coalescing of all the forces of protest needed to threaten the regime...
...The Church must stay out of politics!' says the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...feel it is regrettable that we concluded a peace treaty which provided for the indefinite stationing of American forces on Japanese territory...
...The correct date for dispersal, therefore, is January 19...
...Ciolkosz's analysis leads one to ponder seriously the various stresses in other Soviet-controlled countries in the light of the "new course...
...The Anglican Communion is not, like the Roman, a centralized body...
...DEAR EDITOR JAPAN The June 18 issue of The New Leader has just reached me here in Japan, and, having read George F. Kennan's article, "The Future of Soviet Communism," I feel that I must express my appreciation...
...Actually, the Assembly met (under the rifles of Lenin's troops) on January 18, then was barred from the meeting hall the next day...
...POZNAN Adam Ciolkosz's account of "The Poznan Uprising" [NL, July 16] was more than moving and pro-democratic...
...Paul's University), i have, of course, come into contact with a great number of students and professors...
...Washington, D. C. William Caldwell Several readers have called this to our attention...
...It reads: "Another factor in the passage of the repeal bill, of course, was a companion measure which exempted farm workers from the effect of repeal...
...But why raise an eyebrow because agricultural workers won't have the rights of other workers in this instance...
...Tokyo Wayne Williamson NATIONALISM Bogdan Raditsa's "Wilson and the Tragedy of Nationalism" [NL, July 23] tells a sad story—too late for Central Europe, not too late (I hope) for Asia and Africa...
...Anything but repudiation...
...For the Poznan revolt, while it is a human tragedy demanding our tears, is also an important social and historical event demanding our informed analysis...
...if it lacks the substance of social justice, it will fail every time before the false promise of the international of workers and peasants...
...It is the story of a soulless liberalism gone delinquent, interested only in the abstract trappings of nationhood and not in people's values...
...What are the facts...
...But I would point out that it was not taken until Father Huddleston himself had come to the conclusion that (page 19) "there is no time to lose in breaking the present government," and "to do this the whole weight of world influence and world opinion should be brought to bear...
...I have been increasingly disturbed over the growing resentment among these two important Japanese groups against our armed forces' continued presence on their soil...
...In South Africa the Archbishop of Canterbury's status is only consultative...
...It is my earnest hope that Kennan's article will be widely read and that it will inspire renewed effort among responsible officials to devise a policy that reflects the realities of the situation...
...There are men of good will on both sides, among the Japanese as well as in the American forces and State Department, who are working with commendable zeal to improve mutual relations, but in spite of their efforts they are fighting a losing battle...
...and, late last year, Father Hud dleston was recalled by his order to his native England...
...Monterrey, California John Newell FATHER HUDDLESTON Excellent though it is in the main, Keith Irvine's review [NL, June 11] of the Reverend Trevor Huddleston's book Naught for Your Comfort seems to me to convey the seriously misleading impression that Father Huddleston's personal war on the South African Government's racial policy is virtually unsupported by his church...
...Neither of these would have been possible without the permission of his order...
...And what Father Huddleston himself has done would have been impossible without the strong support of his immediate superior, the Bishop of Johannesburg...
...Ciolkosz's article that it makes both the Communist "thaw" from above and the workers' revolt from below comprehensible...
...Here, at least, the issue is clear-cut...
...If only we could devise some policy that would enable us to leave Japan as friends, rather than wait for the day when we are "kicked out...
...It is the great merit of Mr...
...I especially want to comment on his closing statements, in which he makes a number of pertinent observations concerning the situation in Japan...
...This suggestion is made in the opening sentence of the second paragraph of the review: "This awareness [i.e., of the Church's responsibility] led to words and to action...
...As in Central Europe, this was the essential failing of the Nationalist Revolution in China...
...From protest to political militancy is a long step...
...All this is not to deny what his book makes plain: that he has found himself in conflict with many eminent colleagues, from the Archbishop of Canterbury down...
...And its attitude is further evidenced by his appointment as master of novices, responsible for training its recruits ?a position second in importance only to that of the superior-general himself...
...How many Anglicans will follow Father Huddleston in taking it remains to be seen...
...The reservoir of good will toward America that once existed is dwindling away at an alarming rate...
...But—if read with attention and understanding—the book also makes clear that the conflict is not over principles but over methods...
...Why then has he been recalled...
...this in turn to counter-attacks by the South African authorities...
...Anatole Shub's introduction gives the date of the dissolution of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly as January 25, 1918...
Vol. 39 • August 1956 • No. 32
