Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS As one who has frequently enjoyed William E. Bohn's lucubrations on "The Home Front," may I suggest that he stick to it? For a more provincial or hypocritical...
...He should look into these matters before he gets so self-righteous about Britain at Suez—self-righteous even to a petty sneer at Eden's superb tailoring...
...I consider that free discussion is fully possible in such a system of ours, as well as in the other socialist countries...
...It is thus obvious to any good Communist that the nation should be liquidated...
...It is good to know that there is journal with the courage to expose the apathy and indifference of the U. S. Government toward the Hungarian rising for liberty...
...who joined the Party because of its kind and forgiving nature may be repelled by this solution to the problem, but anyone that naive is not a valuable member anyway...
...The people can be shipped to the east or encouraged to go west...
...The U. S. delegation felt that the next move must come from the Secretariat...
...But that was last May, before Djilas and before Hungary...
...Some Frenchmen, etc...
...The plan of the Soviet Union is to get a foothold in the Middle East and bring about chaos, economic suffering and dissension in the democracies of Europe...
...Incidentally, has Bohn forgotten, or has he never heard, by what methods his (and my) ancestors wrested a large slice of the United States from its Indian possessors and the whole Southwest from Mexico...
...It began with the 3ile of about one-half billion dollars in arms The New Leadeb welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 tcords* to Egypt and other Arab countries, and the spreading of the "big lie...
...After all, the Hungarians have demonstrated that they are a liability to the Party...
...Without it they would have vast armies of unemployed, numberless bankruptcies and breadlines...
...Love and harmony will reign once more within the Camp of Peace and Democracy, and its leaders can go back to radiating sweetness and light...
...Salt Lake City W. H. Clark I congratulate you heartily on your "Djilas and Nagy" editorial in the December 3 issue...
...November 16, "The U. S. delegation was reported to be doing its best to prevent any action in the Assembly about Hungary until Mr...
...If the word "bread" were substituted for the word "oil," we would have a. correct picture of the true issues...
...The new settlers will be bound to the Party by a desire to keep their ill-gotten gains...
...What is holding things up...
...This smearing of our democracies, including the U. S., frequently includes respectable publications and helps to smother the obvious fact that the Middle East's problems were created and supported by Moscow...
...The American Friends of the Captive Nations urge that this personal boycott pledge be coupled with appeals to our Government to apply its own economic sanctions against the Soviet Union...
...This is not intended as a substitute for Government action, but it is a way in which individual Americans and other free men can apply their own sanctions to the Soviet criminals without waiting for the agonizing hesitations and delays of governmental and United Nations policy...
...Hammarskjold had done what he could" (Mr...
...The frontier with Austria was open for several days and it was feasible to send a UN mission to Budapest...
...This was Tito's reply: "Neither I nor any of us thinks that only system of multiple parties allows free expression of opinion...
...For a more provincial or hypocritical analysis of Britain's ' or Punch's) present resentment against the United States than his December 10 column I have not found, not even in the Congressional Record...
...I will also urge my Government to apply a similar quarantine to the Soviet Union until Soviet troops are withdrawn from Hungary...
...The interviewer asked whether Marshal Tito envisioned a one-party or multi-party system as essential to democracy...
...H. was then in Egypt) ; November 17, "The U. S. delegation has adopted a wait-and-see attitude about the Hungarian situation," and so on...
...How could sensible Americans make such specious statements...
...The lives of all the European democracies are dependent upon oil...
...The plains of Hungary can then be farmed by a few thousand Rumanians or Czechs with machinery to produce large surplus of much needed wheat...
...Washington, B. C. Edgar Ansel Mowrer MIDDLE EAST Repeating the propaganda cliches of Communists and their fronts, some of our well-intentioned citizens have been claiming that the real issue in the Middle East is "oil," as if' dealing in oil is something reprehensible or vicious...
...Washington., D. C. Edwin C. "Wilson I should like to call the attention of your readers to the text of a boycott pledge approved by the Executive Committee of the American Friends of the Captive Nations...
...Keep up your good work and drive home to your readers the disturbing fact of U. S. abdication of leadership during this crisis...
...New York City Arnold Beichman HUNGARY Why all the indignation over Communist actions in Hungary...
...Let us wait until Panama, a state which ex-President Theodore Roosevelt boasted he snatched from Colombia, seizes the Panama Canal and invites the Yanks out, to hear the British laugh...
...Half the Hungarians should have been removed by now, instead of the trifling 200,000 who have fled or been deported...
...Following is the text: "The Soviet regime having by the Hungarian massacre demonstrated once again its isolation from the moral community, I pledge that until all Soviet troops and police are withdrawn from Hungary I will enter into no economic, social, political or cultural relations with that regime, or any of its domestic adherents or institutions, or with any Soviet citizens abroad (since these must act whether voluntarily or not as representatives of the regime), or with any persons or institutions freely condoning the Hungarian massacre, except for the sole purpose of persuading such individuals to defect...
...New York City Christopher Emmet Chairman...
...Adequate forces are and have been available to execute Party policy and its enemies...
...The presence there of such a mission could have prevented the Soviet butchery on November 4. The attitude of the U. S. delegation at the UN, however, is revealed in the day-to-day dispatches of New York Times correspondents at the UN...
...There was a chance to save Hungary, if there had been imaginative and vigorous U. S. leadership at the UN...
...There has been plenty of time to borrow or hire an army from Comrade Mao if the Russians have grown so soft that it is dangerous to order them to commit major atrocities...
...We must not be blind, speechless or neutral in dealing with Moscow...
...Other petty nationalities will be impressed by the consequences of defying the Party...
...Brooklyn Nathan D. Shapiro TITO Last May, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito was interviewed by the French daily, Le Monde...
...Thus: Times of November 8, "The UN put off again today consideration of Soviet repression in Hungary...
Vol. 40 • January 1957 • No. 1
