Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR VIERECK This is to express my appreciation for Peter Viereck's "Inner Liberty in the Machine Age" (NL, October 14). I have already read it twice: the first time for instruction, the...
...Carmichael's review seems blind to the very purpose of the book...
...This did not deter Georgia officials, and President Jackson refused to enforce the High Court's decision...
...The mystery is why Rothbard had to read the book to find out what it was about...
...For example, the beautiful metaphorical poetry of Hart Crane is more significant when his life, which was full of difficulties, is known...
...Schenectady N. Y, James P. Boyle EAST PAKISTAN In his vivid article about "The Strange Logic of East Pakistan" (NL, September 30), Daniel Bell concludes that "the future is bleak indeed...
...New York City George Lavan IRISH Thank you for William E. Bohn's October 28 column on "How the Irish Came to America...
...Out of literally tens of thousands of such single items, Lasky selected those of value and interest and composed them into a collective report, a huge mosaic, an eye-witness view seen through a thousand eyes...
...Supreme Court, in 1832, upheld the Cherokees (Worcester v. Georgia...
...It is doubtful whether Jackson ever said, 'Well, John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.' " Mr...
...To many people, the life (including the problem) of an artist is a major portion of his art...
...He treats us as intelligent, reading, thinking people, and accords us the same respect he gives to the books and authors he considers worthy of our attention...
...He has been the most neglected American financier, and was the greatest Secretary of the Treasury in our history...
...He may have been correct in saying that the movie deteriorated when dreary details from Lon Chaney's life were introduced— it is difficult to accomplish this effectively...
...He states: "And no President of the United States, to my knowledge, has ever refused to enforce an order of a Federal court— not even the much-maligned Andrew Jackson...
...Obviously it comes out of a deep insight into spiritual realities, a sensitive awareness of the full dimension of our humanity...
...The book, The Great Famine, ought to be of CONTINUED ON NEXT PACE great interest to younger Irish who may not have heard much about the potato rot of 1845-55...
...The meek bureaucrats and Foundation fellows truly shall inherit the earth, while the masses of Asia are liberated to provide handsome hotels, radio stations and "impressive new flats for Government employes"—-all as described in Dacca by Bell...
...I join the reviewer in her concluding sentence: "And now, having brought his man out of the shadows of obscurity, does the biographer [Raymond Walters Jr.] not owe us a study of Gallatin's influence on American social and political thought...
...they leave us, rather like good vodka, "breathless'' and not much wiser...
...In our time, almost everybody is flooded by a mass of isolated news reports in newspapers, magazines, television, books...
...Congratulations, too, on Ann F. Wolfe's review in the same issue of the Albert Gallatin biography...
...of Horace, still wet behind the cars, representing the USIA...
...The Chero-kees went to the Federal courts...
...This splendid book attempts to present (and succeeds in presenting) a complete, unbiased story of the uprising in the words, images and ideas of hundreds of people who either played an active role in it or observed it as competent reporters or reliable eye-witnesses...
...Murray N. Rothbard's October 21 letter has made me decide that now is the time to do so...
...He explains that the Minister ol Transport's "job was to provide cars for other ministers...
...Rothbard suggests that there is ^ mystery connected with Hicks's dismissing Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged as an "excruciatingly bad" book...
...To censure Lasky for having composed this book, and not another one which Carmichael would like to see written, is unfair...
...As he says, "the future is bleak indeed" for the coming generation of American businessmen...
...I am third-generation Irish...
...Loren Holste HICKS For some time, I have wanted to thank you for giving us the excellent literary criticism of Granville Hicks...
...How could he possibly have missed reading at least some of the thousands of words that have been written about Atlas Shrugged since its publication—about its ideology, its style, its plot, its characterization...
...By this productive and fresh approach, Lasky has—it seems to me— opened up a new avenue of historiography...
...Yet, the anatomy of an anti-totalitarian liberation movement is one thing and the story of one such movement (as Lasky has admirably told it) is another...
...Newton, Mass...
...I have already read it twice: the first time for instruction, the second time to ponder it more deeply...
...New York City Norbert Muhlen ON SCREEN In his October 21 "On Screen" column, William Murray criticized Man of a Thousand Faces...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...I am sure that I shall be reading it again...
...New York City Alfred Kohlberg...
...The U.S...
...Before Hicks referred to it in his column, it had been given the full treatment by practically every periodical that publishes book reviews, including the New York Times Book Review with its excellent review by Granville Hicks...
...I think Murray should have given more thought to the possible importance of connections between artists and art before he interrupted his review to deride it...
...Its existence and integrity were recognized by treaties with the Federal Government and its colonial predecessors...
...However, this is not always possible...
...Georgia courts backed up this move...
...Milton Hindus Peter Viereck's October 14 article was really beautiful...
...Art would "count" for a good deal less without the artist as a guide to understanding his work...
...Robert E. Fitch I liked Peter Viereck's "Inner Liberty in the Machine Age," particularly his defense of the amateur and the following statement: "Literature is too important to leave to the Departments of English.'' That certainly hits home...
...The fact that Hicks assumes his readers have some knowledge of books is one of the things I like best about him...
...Lasky's book, therefore, is much more than merely the raw material for the discovery of ultimate political ("if not downright metaphysical") meanings which Carmichael seems rather impatient to find between hard covers...
...A great many, if not most, of these reports are from Hungarian, Polish, Yugoslav, German and French sources which Lasky (ably assisted by Harold Hurwitz) has dug up from remote corners and saved from oblivion...
...It might be rather nice if we could tell an artist's difficulties: "Scat, you nasty old things, you," and still fully appreciate his works...
...They stemmed from Georgia's campaign to dispossess the Cherokee Indians...
...Inskallah...
...Thousands are said to have perished on the long march...
...I find nothing mysterious at all about bis saying this and elaborating no further...
...Paul, Minn...
...Auerbach then cites President Jackson's firm stand against South Carolina's Nullification Act "in the case which is said to have provoked the famous words above...
...To appreciate his art, they feel they must know the artist...
...both my grandfathers came to the United States about 1851...
...Recalling my 33 years of business travel in the hinterlands of China and India (including Kashmir) with never a car at my disposal, except one hired on occasion after the usual bargaining, I think Bell is right...
...Schenectady, N. Y. Rebekah H. Poller PRESIDENT JACKSON T believe Carl Auerbach erred in his article, "Litlie Rock and the Law" (NL, September 30...
...Jackson's dictum and his refusal to uphold the Supreme Court's decision were not connected with the nullification controversy...
...of Dean Mason of Harvard and Dave Bell, a former Truman assistant, and the buildings in Karachi equipped with servants and cars by the Ford Foundation (tax free...
...To this reporter, Lasky's method seems a successful experiment in bridging the gap between news and history...
...He tells of the representative of the Asia Foundation...
...Greenwood, S. C. Elizabeth C. Welborn LASKY BOOK Joel Carmichael's interesting review (NL, November 4) does not do justice to The Hungarian Revolution: A White Booh, edited by Melvin J. Lasky...
...If classic definitions hold true, and history's task is to tell us "how things really were," Lasky succeeds in presenting history with an exciting new method appropriate to our time...
...The Cherokee nation, which had evolved into a farming and stock-raising society comparable to thai of its white neighbors—representative government, written language, slavery, etc.—lay mostly in northwest Georgia...
...One final point: Tn the same column that Rothbard criticizes, there is a complete analysis of three unballyhooed volumes of short stories— with reasons why Hicks considers them worth reading and some very astute comments on the short story...
...One might as well criticize the editors of the London Times for not having written Toynbee's Study of History...
...Without either knowledge of East Pakistan or a crystal ball to foresee its future, I feel Bell has painted a "bleak" picture for the U. S. taxpayer, about whom I am better informed...
...and it is written with extraordinary beauty, clarity and power...
...Nearly all of them agreed with the opinion expressed so succinctly in The New Leader...
...The removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi was carried out by military force with great brutality...
...But, after some specious remarks about Shelley and Barrymore, Murray tried to sweep all artists under the carpet with the broad assumption that "What counts is their [the artists'] work, not their private difficulties, especially when the latter fall into such a soapy and dreary old rut...
...Tn 1828, the Georgia Legislature illegally extended its jurisdiction over the Cherokee lands...
Vol. 40 • November 1957 • No. 45
