Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR SPAMSH AID The Spanish Civil War ended eighteen years ago. There are still between 150,000 and 200,000 exiles who will not go back. Most of them have made good. They have acquired an...
...Although unfair to Mr...
...Cant claims as his own...
...They have acquired an independent position sometimes in difficult circumstances...
...The Committee needs your help...
...Cant using those same tactics...
...The Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc...
...Reinhold Niebuhr outlines six of the many errors of this administration in the Middle East, and lists as the seventh its refusal to deal with Red China...
...Cant in deviating from the truth by attributing to the Legion a position it never took and by deriding the mentality of 2.5 million members of that organization...
...it branded all deviates as perverts and suggested that flogging at the tail of a cart was too good for them— they should be machine-gunned and buried in quick-lime...
...London Salvador de Madariaga HOMOSEXUALITY As a regular reader of The New Leader, I have more than once written to praise articles that have appeared in your pages...
...We cannot "convert" a heterosexual, nor do we want to any more than the NAACP would want to make a Negro of a white man...
...Where and when did the American Legion advocate "machine-gunning'' homosexuals and "burying them in quick-lime...
...The verb "pervert" is defined in Merriam's Webster, 2nd Edition unabridged, as "to cause deviation from the right, true or regular course...
...I therefore request your indulgence in replying to ^ rather muddled piece that appeared in The New Leader of January 7. I am referring to Gilbert Cant's review of Dr...
...80 East 11th St., New York 3, N. Y.), founded four years ago, is taking care of them...
...Stanley M. Arndt RED CHINA In his "Seven Great Errors of U. S. Foreign Policy" [NL, December 24-31], Dr...
...Edmund Beigler's Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life...
...We harbor both saint and lunatic, intellectual and manual laborer, libertine and puritan in our number, in perhaps the same proportion as heterosexuals do...
...is no different from McCarthyism as applied to Communism...
...He says, "We need join in no witch hunt...
...If it makes anyone happier to call a sexual pervert a deviate, that's his semantic right, but that doesn't justify Mr...
...For this alone, I request Mr...
...New York City George S. Schuyler MIDEAST REFUGEES Uri Ra'anim's "The Mideast's Other Refugees" [NL...
...Cant, it is doubly unfair to this writer that this reply must remain unsigned...
...Finally, it is hard to believe that an infertile land like Israel, dependent upon outside philanthropy, bedeviled by unemployment and fearful of a fifth column in its midst, would welcome the return of a half-million or more Arabs when it has difficulty in providing for an equal number of Jewish refugees...
...I am always astonished at the number of clergymen who want to do business with and cultivate the million-handed murderers of Peking and the Kremlin, and the number of reformed Communists, businessmen and generals whose answer to the temptations of Soviet cooperation and trade is "Get thee behind me, Satan...
...One can play all kinds of "numbers games," of course, about how many Arab refugees are actually vegetating in the Sinai desert...
...Cant so admirably espouses...
...But I am sure that, in making invidious comparisons of Israeli and Arab aid to their respective refugee hordes, Ra'anan will admit that the former had worldwide financial, economic and technical aid in giant proportions and the latter had none...
...Cant's and the editors' forgiveness...
...New York City Alfred Kohlberg assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte was not reassuring to Arabs debating whether or not to decamp...
...Hence, deviation is perversion...
...and in some cases—in Mexico, for instance—they have powerfully contributed to the culture and prosperity of their adopted country...
...His hostility is directed in particular against those homosexuals who have tried to present a public case for acceptance precisely because a majority of people do not yet share the "live and let live" point of view that Mr...
...McCarthyism as applied to the American Legion (or should I say McCantism...
...You have often attacked McCarthyism and "guilt by association.*' Mr...
...If some of us have chosen the present time to speak out for the equality before the law that many other countries—but, alas, not yet our own—have acknowledged, or for an understanding of our position by our otherwise enlightened fellow citizens, I can only add that it was about time...
...Isn't he finding all members of the Legion guilty by association...
...If this is "coming out of the woodwork with increasing insolence and in increasing numbers," then so be it...
...It is hard to believe that all the blame for the tragic situation in and around Palestine belongs to the Arabs, Ra'anan implies...
...First of all, having grown up a homosexual in a predominantly hostile world, I and many others of my "ilk" have found it hard enough to be what we are without trying to induce any heterosexual to shoulder the same outcast's burden...
...But the handicapped ones—by language, trade, age, illness, or other circumstances— have been and are living a hard life...
...Referring to our present perplexity, he says: "The probable clue to this mystery of historical destiny is that this powerful and responsible nation is also very fat and prosperous...
...Certainly the...
...We ask no undeserved honor or privilege—only the right, openly and within the bounds of good taste and public morals, to the same "live and let live" that Mr...
...Isn't Mr...
...Cant refers to "the tactics of McCarthy during the State Department witch hunt...
...He accuses such people of "openly seeking to make converts" and "to cut moral corners right and left" because of an imagined superiority to the heterosexual...
...Isn't he engaged in a witch hunt against the American Legion...
...The present circumstances make it impossible for most of us in the minority to indulge in the bravado of a signature...
...This part of our personality, though probably not inborn, is as basic a part of us as other people's heterosexuality—for good or bad...
...The American Legion has made mistakes, but so have the Republican party, the Democratic party, Governor Stevenson, Senator Morse and most humans...
...The "regular course" in this country is not homosexuality...
...Secondly, what we have of late been trying to tell the more open-minded members of the majority is that sociologically, educationally, biologically—in fact, in every way possible— we are neither their inferiors nor their superiors...
...New York City A Friend Gilbert Cant's review says: "The American Legion mentality prevailed...
...San Marino, Calif...
...Bergler, but how much less is a moot point...
...Cant confesses to a lesser prejudice than that displayed by Dr...
...January 7] is illuminating, but it is not quite convincing to those seeking balanced view of I lie situation...
Vol. 40 • January 1957 • No. 4
