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DEAR EDITOR ISRAEL William J. Newman's article "Why Defend Israel?" (NL, March 11) is an excellent portrayal of the present Administration's inconsistent and sometimes incomprehensible Middle...
...Montreal Squire Blackshaw I find reading The New Leader highly rewarding...
...Finally, it seems to me that Friedenberg has produced an almost stereotyped description of a certain kind of "liberal" Latin American intellectual: one who, misunderstanding or ignoring the international problems of totalitarianism, can pay lip-service to a non-Communist position of sorts while adopting in fact the political line of the Communists to the point of even becoming a victim of their jargon...
...Stevenson received—namely, the one enunciated by Patrick Henry nearly 200 years ago...
...2. The interview seems to suggest that Professor Romero tried to prove that the Socialist party (which is very small and can hardly be termed -popular") had nothing to do with the Revolution...
...Even now, three prominent Socialist leaders hold high official positions: Dr...
...A. L. Palacios is Ambassador to Uruguay, and Mrs...
...It could he many things that would be beneficial to the United States and the West...
...The hope for „ "cooling off" of the Middle East is very remote at this time for two reasons...
...It would seem now that others take a different view...
...When Mr...
...l,et us hope that they do not make a mistake, for one mistake can be fatal...
...Dulles, and other Western diplomats going to realize that Israel could very well be the only friend the West will have in the Middle East...
...Please continue to give voice to the sentiments of so many of us—particularly on such matters as Hungary...
...Both shared the same opinions on such subjects as the Rio de Janeiro Pact, Korea, Egypt, U. S. policies in Guatemala and in the hemisphere at large...
...A. M. dejusto (wife of the party's founder) and A. Ghioldi (until recently editor of La Vanguardia) are members of the Consultative Board...
...Strontium-90 warfare, like bacteriological warfare, would be very much of a two-edged sword in the hands of despots...
...For, were that not to be the case, Russia could readily formulate special A-bombs capable of achieving worldwide strontium-90 hazard threshold so soon that it would make Mr...
...Israel could be the last outpost the West has in the Middle East from a military standpoint...
...Piedmont, California Julius Hyman ARGENTINA I would like to comment on Daniel M. Fried en berg's interview with Jose Luis Romero ("Argentina Since Peron," NL, February 18...
...Murrow's hair stand on end...
...They cannot be and are not our friends...
...Should the time arrive when radiation by-products in the soil, water and air assume palpably dangerous proportions, we may be quite sure that other scientists will quickly come to the aid of that marvelous mechanism, the human body, in reducing such hazard to minimum, and that Americans will be afforded better protection than their enemies...
...both are first and foremost "anti-imperialists" (read anti-U...
...New York City Enrique Naya KUDOS I always look forward to reading The New Leader...
...As to the remarks attributed to IVolV-^m Romero, the following remark* seem in order: 1. Instead of comparing Arturo Froddizi with Franklin D. Roosevelt, it would be more appropriate to compare him with Jacobo Arbenz CONTINUED of Guatemala...
...They were quite entitled, therefore, to hail the coup as their own doing—as they did until very recently, when they started to compete for the support of the Peronist working class...
...The answer to this question lies in the hands of the Western diplomats who are formulating the new Middle Eastern policies...
...When are President Eisenhower, Mr...
...Philadelphia Patricia Mahen In my opinion, your publication is the best of its kind in the English language...
...These policies are based on the total destruction of the State of Israel, and the Arab countries gaining a "key" role in the "power politics" of the Middle East...
...The answer is no...
...But Israel, a country that has grown up by democratic standards, can be our friend if we will let it...
...the editing of Imago Muiuli, which began publishing in Buenos Aire- in September 1953, while Peron \va« in power...
...Chester Bowles The New Leader has been a wonderful discovery to me...
...Newman's understanding of the possibilities of Israeli aid to the United States is both justifiable and refreshing...
...Yet, the Socialists, along with the rest of the Opposition, did nothing for years but work for the military overthrow of Peron...
...Can they, with the goals they pursue, be friends with a country that has championed democracy and the right of a state to exist...
...It makes a very real contribution week after week...
...Nor is it quite true that he became "a leading intellectual opponent of I he Peron regime" while in Uruguay...
...S.) ; both kept and continue to keep the same "liberal" silence in the face of Communist atrocities...
...It is not altogether accurate to say that Romero "tried to unite Argentine students against the threat of dictatorship,since the novelty of that movement was its spontaneity...
...Murrow's question would be precisely the same one that Mr...
...Scientists Discuss Atomic Radiation," should serve to remind us again thai the battle for freedom of tho individual never ends...
...Stevenson was so badly beaten lust November, some of us were heartened to believe that the issue which pulled the rug out from under him was his sponsorship of the "strontium-90" fear campaign...
...There has been 80 much said about Israel in the past few months, but how much has been said about the unlimited economic and military possibilities of this underdeveloped state of the Middle East...
...But the question remains: Will it be...
...The first reason is the present Middle Eastern policy pursued by the United States, and the second is the present ideology and policies of Colonel Nasser and the other Arab states...
...Are the Arabs really our friends...
...New Leadkr...
...Thus, on Saturday, February 9, Edward R. Murrow presented his listeners with this ultimate question: When the time comes (as, he implied, it must if we continue to test A-bombs) that the world arrives at the hazard threshold for strontium-90, are we prepared to submit to Communist domination for a century or two as the alternative to the annihilation of human life on the planet...
...He devoted most of his efforts to his intellectual pursuits, including...
...It could be the link between Middle Eastern oil and the West through its expanding pipelines...
...I am confident that the answer of the electorate to Mr...
...NL, March 11) is an excellent portrayal of the present Administration's inconsistent and sometimes incomprehensible Middle Eastern policy...
...A member of the Socialist party for many years, Professor Romero did not participate in its activities until the days of the 1955 military coup...
...Marietta, Ohio Charli-s Asarnow STRONTIUM-90 William K. Wyant's article in the February 11 issue of Tin...
...Bronx Bernat Fenster...
...Fortunately, however, our Condons and our Lapps are propagandists first and scientists afterward...
...Essex, Conn...
...In addition to being packed full of information that is not easily found elsewhere, it is a pleasure to read...
Vol. 40 • March 1957 • No. 12
