Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR NUCLEAR RACE Thank you for printing Harrison Brown's "The Future of the Nuclear Race" (NL, March 31). This is the first time that some of us have seen an outline of a possible way to...
...Anatomically men are brothers...
...Jesus Galindez was foully murdered by Trujillo's thugs...
...Each nation writes its own corridor history and exaggerates its own role of importance...
...At its worst, nationalism can make a people imitate the Gadarene swine rushing to self-destruction...
...Secretary Dulles's indignant rejection would have the full support of public opinion here...
...While generally supporting the Cousins proposal that the United States should join the human race, we must not underestimate the tremendous obstacles and the educational campaign involved...
...Our childhood memories and our sub-conscious minds are full of nationalist prejudices and symbols which are exceedingly difficult to eradicate...
...It must tolerate regional groups within the United Nations...
...UNITED WORLD Again, by Norman Cousins's "Nuclear Weapons and the Human Community" (NL, April 21), you raise the basic challenging cosmic problem of the unity of the human race...
...Patriotism still remains the last resort of scoundrels...
...The dangers of insurgent and ebullient nationalism can be exploited by every potential Hitler...
...Suppose any government were to request the same of ours...
...The first tendency of the human mind is to think that anything which is different is inferior, and we all tend to be victims of xenophobia...
...We might instead hope that our ceasing to use foreign policy to pass moral judgment on particular Latin American governments, a policy which serves the national interest, might in time be extended to our relations with other states of the world...
...Patriotism is too often based on a distaste and hatred of other nations...
...If the United Nations had tried to abrogate the sovereign powers of nations by direct assault, it would have quickly committed suicide...
...History has had its own perfervid anti-nationalists, such as Gustave Herve, who later became the most fervid of all the patriots when his native France was invaded...
...Art and literature are not confined to national frontiers...
...Each nation builds its own kultur...
...order...
...Representative Charles D. Porter ("The Struggle "Without End") assails the State Department for supporting Latin American dictators and exhorts us to base our "leadership on moral as well as material resources...
...We should be grateful to Porter (and others) for his efforts in helping to unstick the departments of State and Justice from their do-nothing stands on investigating this kidnaping, if not assassination, on U. S. soil...
...Only very slowly can it edge toward world government of law and...
...Reinhold Niebuhr ("Morals and Cold War") agrees that the Administration's decision in the Suez crisis was mistaken because it "helped to destroy the moral and political position of France and Britain.*' It seems illogical that Porter, while asserting that the struggle against dictators in Latin America is an endless one, refers to the ultimate victory of moral leadership, if only we intervene in the internal affairs of other American states...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull was the wiser for it...
...Yet if we could see the world from one of our artificial satellites, it would certainly appear as a planetary unit...
...Optimistically, we can note that scientists in the.International Geophysical Year cooperate...
...its perpetuation is super-national responsibility...
...Then, too, we are realizing that we cannot keep undeveloped people down in a ditch unless we share the ditch at least in part with them...
...In the light of future world history, nationalism may appear as infantile measles suffered before maturation, but it can create considerable problems in current history...
...Even in the U. S. progress is still greatly hindered by emphasis upon "states' rights...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...Just as the Communist dictatorship inevitably leads to Stalin and Khrushchev, so rampant nationalism leads to empire...
...Civilization is not the creation of any single nation...
...These attempts and others can be studied with profit when we try to put the cause of mankind above the cause of nations...
...It is highly unlikely, as Porter writes, that Morris Ernst, considering the restriction on his activity he so astonishingly accepted, will convince anyone of Trujillo's immaculate vest in this case...
...New York City Donald Warren Jr...
...Naturally Lanti thought that the international language Esperanto was also a necessary tool for helping men to escape the curse of nationalism...
...Even the international organization of workers (linked together by what Lincoln described as the closest bond of fellowship between men and women who toil for their living) has never been powerful for peace...
...As a teacher at Columbia University, I think and believe, although it has not yet been proved, that Dr...
...But once the U. S. Government starts withholding conventional arms—or even customary medals—from one Latin American "personality'' or another, we shall again have raised widespread resentment and hatred of this country there...
...Henry E. Moehle FOREIGN POLICY Doubtless, the irony of reading in the April 14 issue two contradictory articles on morality in foreign policy did not escape your readers...
...In the "Sennacieca Asocio Tut-monda" which he set up, he divided the world into mathematical sectors in order to get its members accustomed to thinking outside of nationalist areas...
...Another French thinker not so well known was E. Lanti, who, logically enough, was prepared to consider the unification of Europe by Hitler as a progressive step...
...They are the ones who do business with "immorality...
...Nevertheless, the international basis of music, art, literature and science cannot be easily transferred to politics...
...It represents the tremendous and cumulative century-old differences created by geography, climate, economic development and a host of other complicated factors reinforced by cultural history and nationalist education...
...He cannot be familiar with the disastious results in all the Americas of President Wilson's moralizing and intervening in favor of the "right" or democratic side in Mexico, to cite but one case...
...The fierce struggle to unite the United States in the horrors of our own Civil War will seem like a small guerrilla skirmish compared to the problems of setting up a United States of the World and its 21/£ billion people...
...The reluctance to remove tariff barriers shows that trade and commerce do not operate without chauvinistic and nationalist considerations...
...Strictly speaking, it would have been more appropriate for Porter to address his remarks to the U. S. citizens resident under dictators...
...Still, it is surprising that he used such a tawdry trick as requesting a high official of a foreign government to submit to questioning by U. S. authorities...
...The very words which we use are international in their roots...
...Nothing outside of the human instinct of self-preservation is more deeply rooted than nationalist egotism...
...This is the first time that some of us have seen an outline of a possible way to break the deadly circle we seem to be trapped in...
...New York City Mark Starr...
...He tried to show- the suicidal nature of the professional patriots and exposed all its allied rackets with their vested interests in the exploitation of nationalist and racial egotism...
...What moral standards Secretary of State Dulles uses to judge which states are dictatorships has been fascinating the public for years...
...All the Internationals set up by the Socialists and trade unionists abruptly became ineffective when World War I and World War II recalled trade-union members and radicals to their prior national allegiances and loyalties...
...There is no restraint on nationalist egotism...
Vol. 41 • May 1958 • No. 19
