Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR KOREAN HISTORY Ambassador Ben C- Limb has done a wonderful job of simplifying the history of the last five weeks of the Korean War ["[[Paduk, Henry Clay and the Situation in Asia," NL,...
...But one aspect of the situation in those lands needs amplification...
...It has long been obvious that totalitarianism of the Right or Left is largely dependent on the existence of large families at social levels in which parents are unable to care properly for children, so that these grow up in poverty and ignorance...
...Most important, he overlooks the fact that the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist party, on July 2, hedged considerably on the anti-Stalin campaign...
...C.F...
...In this area, the United States has been perhaps more fortunate than these other lands...
...genuine as possible...
...Should we propose truly massive exchanges, we would soon see how little the Communists really want them...
...Let us propose exchanges not by the dozen, but by the thousands...
...The political backwardness of Italy over the centuries has to a large extent been due to the religio-political totalitarianism of the dominant -ecclesiastical hierarchy...
...Indeed, on the evening of July 13 they launched one of the biggest offensives of the war...
...Chamberlin knows from his own bitter experience...
...Yet, he adduces no proof that the essentials of the Soviet regime have changed: political dictatorship, slave labor, secret police, world revolution...
...Richard Leibowitz BIRTH CONTROL The illuminating articles by Giuseppe Sara-gat ["Politics in Italy"] and George B. Boswell ["French Communists Stick With Stalin"] in your July 23 issue give an excellent picture of the Stalinoid attitudes in Italy and France...
...Those of us who were there saw the time in longer terms: hundreds of thousands of seconds...
...NL, July 23], Dwight Macdonald doubts that Khrushchev's Russia is Stalin's Russia...
...Yet is it not ironic that the Poznan workers purposely staged their demonstration on the occasion of an international trade fair, at which Western observers were present...
...The "bold move" which Colonel Limb proudly refers to, the sudden release of the anti-Communist prisoners of war, gave the Chinese another excuse to delay making a truce...
...The indirect reference to this aspect comes in BoswelTs description of the French Communists' evasive action on birth control...
...Of course, if he plays paduk one can understand it: the bold move...
...Those who are interested in fighting Communism that totalitarian, closed, fraudulent system should welcome such exchange...
...mate in three...
...The more Russians, Poles, Yugoslavs, etc...
...visit our country, see our institutions and achievements, meet our people, the more difficult it will be for the Stalinists to resume repression and launch war the greater the pressure for some degree of liberalizing change behind the Iron Curtain...
...Khrushchev himself has made it clear, when the chips are down, who is boss today...
...DEAR EDITOR KOREAN HISTORY Ambassador Ben C- Limb has done a wonderful job of simplifying the history of the last five weeks of the Korean War ["[[Paduk, Henry Clay and the Situation in Asia," NL, August 13...
...The Soviet people knew Stalin as a person who always acted in defense of the USSR against the intrigues of the enemies and struggled for the cause of socialism" (New York Times, July 3...
...This article deserves to be widely read and distributed...
...But it has not been altogether a matter of luck...
...Leo L. Rockwell EXCHANGE OF PERSONS I am surprised to see William Henry Chamberlin deplore [NL, July 23] the Government's decision to expand the exchange of persons with Communist countries...
...Hamilton, N.Y...
...Cleveland Howard Melton KHRUSHCHEV In his article, "Well Said, Old Mole...
...On the other hand, how many Russian and Polish and Czech doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers, administrators, even military officers are totally immune to the immense vision of peaceful human progress known as democracy...
...How can Macdonald honestly believe that Khrushchev has abandoned the cult of the individual...
...But analogies between games like paduk or chess and military or political strategy fall down when one hears the screaming and sees the blood of battle...
...The large colonial family of an earlier day, useful in a pioneering era, has gradually yielded to the smaller family of today...
...He was devoted to Marxism-Leninism...
...His objective historian, far from the scene in space and time, calls this "promptly ended...
...It goes without saying that the more Americans see Russia with their own eyes, the more accurate our knowledge of that country...
...Five weeks elapsed between President Rhee's "bold move" and the conclusion of a truce...
...If the war ended two weeks later, it was due to the proper placing of our shells rather than the proper placing of our paduk counters...
...The dead are still counting...
...Chamberlin says our decision for expanded exchange represented a "stab in the back" of the Poznan workers by "shaking hands with their oppressors...
...the game is over...
...Hero worship of Stalin has been replaced with intensified hero worship for Lenin...
...Greensboro...
...It was only natural that the opposing totalitarianism of Communism should adopt the same policy of unlimited human reproduction...
...Although the situation in France has been somewhat different, it is inevitable that the high priests of Communism should join the older priests in opposing birth control...
...Had the West continued its ideological Battle Act preventing our people from attending such fairs, the revolt might not have taken place, or else would have been kept secret from the outside world while Cyrankiewicz and his lieutenants spread their lies about "liberalization" unchallenged...
...Section 4 of the Central Committee statement reiterates in bold language the necessity of world revolution in order to realize the objective of transition from socialism to communism...
...Few Americans will return pro-Communists from a tour of the USSR (as Mr...
...I urge Macdonald to read the Central Committee statement, consider the recent purge in Georgia, the Poznan revolt, the Hungarian flight to freedom, the testimony of the Polish leader Bialer, and similar current events, and then ask himself: "What has really changed since Stalin...
...Communist reality, like Communist doctrine, cannot bear the light of truth...
...As a result, the revolt is known to the world and is a potent fact not only in world chancelleries but in public opinion...
...EICHER...
...For the more democratic a country, the more its values and realities can stand inspection and exchange...
...While it is true that propaganda is one of the Soviet purposes in sending delegations here, that should lead us not to bar exchanges, but to insist that they be as massive and 23 The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Milwaukee Anthony T. Bouscaren KUDOS Congratulations on Edgar Ansel Mowrer's "After Coexistence," which appeared in the July 2 issue...
...Consider these statements: "Stalin . . actively struggled for the realization of Lenin's behests...
...Cambridge, Mass...
...A more intelligent religious policy, which has moved more and more to a recognition of social change as modifying policy rather than being subject to an ironclad medieval dogmatism, and a Jeffersonian tradition of the necessity for an educated citizenry, have combined to spare us the problems of overpopulation, with the accompanying ignorance and poverty...
...How fortunate we are is illustrated by the current problem in higher education, that of providing proper college training for the thousands who insist on having it...
Vol. 39 • August 1956 • No. 35
