Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR CZECHOSLOVAKIA We agree fully with Robert Heckert's letter [NL, September 24] concerning Peter Zenkl's article on Czechoslovakia [NL, September 10]. We feel, however, that Mr. Zenkl's...
...The annotations by Boris T. Nicolaevsky are highly informative...
...The speech itself is certainly one of the most revealing documents of this century and shows that combination of realism, falsehood and cynicism which seems to exemplify all Soviet politics...
...John A. Toomey INDIA I was surprised to see in the June 25 "Dear Editor" column Sol Sanders's ''correction" of his earlier statement that school children in India were required to attend the receptions for visiting Soviet leaders Bulganin and Khrushchev...
...Much the same preparations, incidentally, are made for Nehru's birthday, which falls on November 14...
...And the official fiat even went to the point of detailing the slogans the children should chant...
...Marlboro, Vt...
...The "Indian friends" who advised him that he was in error apparently were not aware of the facts...
...New Delhi authorities instructed all schools receiving Government aid to have their pupils, clad in their best clothes and chaperoned by teachers, at the airport and on the route to New Delhi to receive the Soviet visitors...
...Girls' schools particularly were not allowed to miss the event...
...One gets the feeling after perusing the document that it is only a matter of time until we have a similar speech by some figure in the present internal struggle...
...It is impossible to denounce Soviet deportations and genocide in the Baltic States, Hungary and elsewhere and, at the same time, approve the deportation of the Sudetens, which involved even more victims...
...We refer to the cruel mass expulsion of more than 3 million Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia, which certainly helped to drive that country into the arms of Soviet Russia for fear of German revenge...
...New York City Bruno Rother, Chairman Hans Froehlich, Executive Secretary American Friends of Democratic Sudetens KHRUSHCHEV You have performed an invaluable service in distributing the Khrushchev speech ["The Crimes of the Stalin Era," NL, July 16], and your reputation as an enlightened journal against all forms of totalitarianism has once again been enhanced...
...Zenkl's article omitted another fact which helps at least in part to explain why Czechoslovakia today is in the Soviet orbit...
...New Delhi G. S. Bharcava...
...No less a person than H. V. Kamath, MP, quoted the official directive in connection with the Khrushchev and Bulganin visit...
...This one, of course, would deal with Khrushchev...
...To that extent and as a former Vice Premier under Communist Premier Klement Gottwald, he shares the guilt for his country's current plight...
...Zenkl has even in this country publicly condoned the genocidal expulsion of the Sudeten Germans...
...As a leading member of the Council for ?? Free Czechoslovakia, Mr...
Vol. 39 • November 1956 • No. 46
