Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR young generation Hurray for the women! T refer, of course, to Jeane J. Kirkpatrick's June 24 contribution to the "Young Generation'1 symposium. It remained for a woman to offer the...
...And to read it in The New Leader adds the zest of surprise, almost as though I should read some of my own current articles in the Moscow Pravd-a...
...New York City Herbert Hill Labor Secretary, NAACP...
...For years, no issue has been exploited more effectively by the Communists than the issue of racial discrimination...
...Congratulations on imaginative editing and a stimulating magazine...
...whether Ivy League, avant-garde or middle class, they are all intellectuals...
...This was the result of considerable pressure during the past twelve months...
...I had the privilege of spending many hours in conversation with Dr...
...Secondly, by voting for a convention neither the U. S. nor any other country obligates itself to ratification...
...Yonkers, N. Y. Earl Browder I think that Anatole Shub's analysis of the older generation which includes myself is one of the most brilliant essays I have ever read...
...my admiration for his mind and work was enhanced by an appreciation of his humility and of the wide range of his interests...
...But apparently neither the research foundations nor any Government bureau concerned with such matters had the wisdom to make such a study trip possible...
...Spokesmen for the Soviet bloc have emerged in the International Labor Organization as the defenders of equal employment rights for working people throughout the world, while the U. S. Government delegation opposes a strong draft treaty outlawing racial discrimination in employment...
...The series really concerns itself with one segment of today's young generation...
...Riverdale, N. Y. Martin Ebon ilo The New York Times of June 14- carried a dispatch by A. H. Raskin from Geneva headlined "the u. s. gets set back in ilo on bias...
...He has put the pieces together in such way that I found myself saying, again and again: Yes, that is exactly how it was and is—but why did I never see it so clearly...
...Although best known for his outstanding analyses of intra-party Communist struggles, Borkenau was also a keen student of psychology and of the history of art...
...Surely he must have overlooked the work of Alal El-Fassi in general, and his Autocritiqwe in particular, or he could not have made this statement...
...By virtue of the inordinate power of the Southern bloc in Congress, and the Administration's undue sensitivity to supporters of the Bricker Amendment, the U. S. has been seriously weakened in the ideological struggle against world Communism...
...Avoiding self-pity, a sense of guilt and over-protesting, she looks at the world and herself with clear eyes and sees the world's complexity and her own problems and duties with both sense and sensibility...
...Up with the revolt...
...These agencies would do well to recognize that men of Borkenau's caliber, of whom there are only a few, are worth a phalanx of endowed academicians or directive-bound bureaucrats...
...Borkenau pointed to the explosive state of Polish Communism many months before the Poznan uprising, just as he had anticipated numerous other crises behind the Iron Curtain —particularly in the Kremlin's top circles...
...A wrong U. S. position on the issue of banning racial discrimination in employment will have harmful effects for many years...
...In other words, she is u. grown-up person who has earned her maturity by her intelligence, not through folly...
...But the United States is not likely to change its position on the proposed convention covering discrimination in employment, thus providing one more dramatic and painful example of how we are weakening ourselves in the struggle against world Communism by permitting white supremacists within the Federal Government to make our foreign policy...
...It crystallized everything I have felt about the relentless campaign some "intellectuals" have going in full force, namely the dehydration of their capacities to laugh, cry, rage and love as stimulated by "popular" fiction and films...
...Wouldn't it be more accurate to title the series "Intellectual Youth Today"—or something on those lines...
...Yet, by its lack of courage and foresight the Administration is creating new problems in this highly critical and sensitive area...
...It remained for a woman to offer the most intelligent, sensible and realistic analysis of her own generation and her elders' dissatisfaction with it...
...And may an editor, in the midst of all this praise, be a bit pedantic...
...The members of the ILO are well aware of this position...
...I do hope that, when the series is concluded, they will be issued together in a pamphlet or paperback format...
...More credit to her...
...The Constitutional questions involved in the difference between "recommendation' and a "convention" are somewhat complicated and I here is no need to no into details...
...There arc two main points, however, that require elucidation...
...they are, most important of all, exciting to read...
...New York City Jerry Gross Associate Editor, Ace Books arab nationalism "Arab nationalism, for all its appeal, has no social and economic ideas," writes Walter Z. Laqueur in his June 10 article on "The Left Wing in Egypt...
...The ILO conference is the most important world forum on social issues...
...It is indeed tragic that Government leaders here have not yet learned that racial practices within the country are immediately transformed into major element of foreign policy...
...It is indeed a pity that we cannot turn to Borkenau now that Mao Tse-tung is emerging as the ideological rival of the Kremlin leaders...
...First, a "convention*' is « much stronger instrument than a "recommendation,*7 a fact which is recognized by trade-unionists throughout the world, especially among the "politicalized" workers of Europe...
...Borkenau last year at Zurich...
...A final word of praise, too, for signing on Leslie Fiedler and Diana Trilling as regular contributors...
...New York City Lily Berkowitz The pleasure of reading Anatole Shub's article, "Withdrawal and Return,'' in The New Leader of June 17 was so strong as to jolt me out of all routine to write a note of appreciation...
...Trilling's May 6 "Here and Now" column on the intellectual's emotional reactions to Hollywood films was wonderful...
...They are already the nucleus of many conversations at parties and business luncheons in publishing...
...It stated that "the United States suffered a first-round defeat in a dispute with the Soviet Union over the form of a world ban on racial discrimination in employment...
...This year, the U. S. Government supported a convention on forced labor, a reversal of last year's position...
...And hurrah for the new generation everywhere which declares its independence of greybeard dogmatism...
...Certainly they deserve to be collected and re-read...
...It was Borkenau's hope that he might be able to spend six months touring Asia in order to evaluate the relative impact of the Soviet and Chinese Communist parties on the Communist parties of southern and southeastern Asia...
...Present at Geneva are labor as well as employer and Government representatives from 78 countries...
...In fact, for some years now the U. S. has adopted the position that, whenever a subject covered by a convention is a matter coming under state as well as Federal authority, it will not be submitted for ratification...
...New York City Keith Irvine franz borkenau Permit me to add a few words to your June 10 "Between Issues" comment on the life and work of the late Franz Borkenau...
...It provides an arena for a major propaganda struggle for the minds of working people throughout the world...
...New York City Harrison E. Salisbury Just word of praise—one among many, I am sure—for your series on "The Young Generation.'" The articles are not only incisive, insightful and wise...
Vol. 40 • July 1957 • No. 27
