Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR TEACHERS Richard Rose's report of the pathetic remarks of a group of "'educationists" in convention (NL, April 8) is not surprising to those who are interested in the field of...
...The President's speech on Israel and his press-conference remarks on the Norman case are only the latest cases in point...
...As the Herbert Norman case has just evidenced again, part of the success of this administration proceeds from its artful moral ambivalence: "While mouthing just enough liberal, internationalist slogans to placate the civilized section of the community, it periodically throws just enough meat to feed the tiger lurking among the right-wing Republicans and Dixiecrats...
...Naples Gustav Herling WITHDRAWAL Your editorial note with Hugh Gaitskell's April 1 proposal—withdrawal of Soviet troops to Russia, of Allied troops west of the Rhine, and security guarantees for Germany and the satellites—says that this solution "has not been seriously proposed by either "Washington or Moscow.'" It has been twice proposed by Russia —without, however, any reference to the satellites...
...As far as I know, apart from having done this honor to my book he has written only a preface for Freda Utley's book...
...The New Leader ivelcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed .100 words...
...What has happened is that, in the most subtle manner, both the President and the Secretary of State have wooed the anti-Semitic feeling latent in broad sections of the American people...
...A motive for this course may perhaps be found in the Secretary of State's recent off-hand explanation of Arab hostility toward Israel on the ground that "they believe the Jews killed Mohammed...
...Brzezinski to say: "It seems clear that Lord Russell is writing too many prefaces for too many books...
...I would also like to comment on the letter of my compatriot, Zbigniew Brzezinski, in your March 4 issue...
...DEAR EDITOR TEACHERS Richard Rose's report of the pathetic remarks of a group of "'educationists" in convention (NL, April 8) is not surprising to those who are interested in the field of education...
...He says: "Herling had not been a Communist...
...In A World Apart, I wrote: "Apparently those proud words [Passionaria's 'better to die than to live on your knees'], which I had first heard at a meeting of my high-school Communist group in Poland, had different ring in captivity, and had to be suppressed...
...I ceased to be a Communist in 1937, and immediately after my country's defeat in 1939 I founded with my friends one of the first underground organizations in Warsaw, which was both anti-Nazi and .anti-Communist...
...Let us hope that other Britons will continue the job of exposure resolutely begun by Professor Hudson, and then perhaps some Americans will be brave enough to call a spade a spade...
...I am not a Norwegian but a Pole...
...Newark, N. J. John W. Osborne TIGER-FEEDING You are much to be congratulated on G. F. Hudson's courageous and cogent analysis of the policies pursued by our Secretary of State ("Dulles and the Arab Plot Against Israel," NL, April 15...
...One could hear the Midwestern and Southern small-towners whisper: "They're not afraid to crack down on the Jews...
...Nevertheless, the article should be a reminder to us of the mental level of those people, to whom the instruction of future generations is entrusted...
...Cleveland Everett M. Otis FOR THE RECORD Glad as I am that Bertrand Russell has quoted in his reply to Norman Thomas (NL, February 18) the beautiful preface he wrote to my book A World Apart, and much as I agree with him that hatred and even the smallest infringement on democratic civil liberties are not the means to fight Communism, I cannot leave uncorrected two inaccuracies about myself in his article...
...And while it is true that I was originally (as a young boy) a Communist, it is not true that I was still on the Communist side when imprisoned by the Russians in 1940...
...S. Miles Bouton Sr...
...The teaching shortage will cease to exist when liberal-arts graduates of bona fide colleges and universities are paid salaries equivalent to those they could expect in commerce, manufacturing or service enterprises...
...Evington, Va...
...It is simply not true...
...his original policy toward McCarthy (till a general was insulted) and toward various school-integration procedures were earlier illustrations of a cunning hypocrisy which prospers only insofar as it is not forthrightly attacked by the American press...
...It makes clear that behind the warming banalities of the President lies coldly calculated course of action in utter disregard of "the fundamental principles for which the Western democracies stand...
...In fact, this motive for the policy also helps answer the question raised by Reinhold Niebuhr in the previous issue: why the obvious injustice of the Administration course has not affected the President's popularity...
...In the midst of the crisis, Dulles cagily lured Jewish businessmen to Washington for a "secret" conference, then published their presence...
...Since there was at least a question some time earlier that "they" had been afraid to crack down on the Communists in Hungary, one can easily view the subconscious processes at work in the minds of political primitives...
...Furthennore, it is unjust of Mr...
...The Coughlin-Bilbo era, after all, was not so long ago...
...The result is that, with certain exceptions, positions in our elementary and secondary schools are filled with low-caliber intellects willing to work for the small salaries accorded to them...
...The American people are committed to a policy of providing an education to all who seek it...
...The President rushed to the airwaves to quote Scripture to the Israelis (a venerable Fundamentalist maneuver...
...I submit that many such teachers are actually overpaid in relation to the compensation they could expect in other fields...
...But this attitude does not extend to the furnishing of sufficient funds to attract superior college students to teaching...
Vol. 40 • April 1957 • No. 16
