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DEAR EDITOR IMRE NAGY The Soviet murder of Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy and the Commander of the Freedom Fighters, General Pal Maleter, is a crime unusual even in Soviet history—in which murder is...
...Washington, D. C. Sidney Koretz...
...It is a unique and urgent challenge to the free world, particularly since nearly 10,000 Hungarians are still being held as prisoners, many of them without trial...
...In addition, it must break off negotiations for a Summit Conference unless the problem of Hungary is made the first item on the agenda...
...It is fantasy to believe that any major power will unilaterally give up the atomic weapons it now has...
...In attempting to find a way out of the present world danger, Lord Russell is only hastening a worse one for mankind...
...These applications, he points out, tend to obliterate the true import of science, which is, he says, that "we try to find out as much as we can about the spatial and temporal surrounding of the place in which we find ourselves put by birth...
...Before the same group, John Davy, science editor of the London Observer, took issue with Dr...
...Science, like art, is valued as a sheer delight and for the light it sheds on whatever there is, whether it helps us or not...
...The UN's repeated inquiries as to the safety of Nagy, Maleter and their associates were ignored...
...We suggest the following: 1. The UN General Assembly must be called into special session...
...In your June 2 issue Reinhold Niebuhr ("An Awful Week") says: to escape disaster, either in the shape of an ultimate war or in capitulation . ' New York City Alfred Kohlberg Infantile Curiosity In your May 5 issue, Tris Coffin reports that Dr...
...It does not take for granted what the unxeflective adult ignores...
...The American Friends of the Captive Nations are convinced that it is not too late for the United Nations to use its moral authority to- save the lives of the Hungarian political prisoners...
...They are "forms of coexistence and succession," the way we "organize" our experience, our universe and the universe, which even more than any political state, imposes its constitution upon us inwards and outwards...
...It is » great pity," said the great scholar of Sanskrit, P. Deussen, "that children in the first two years of their life cannot talk, for if they could they probably would talk Kantian philosophy...
...Envin Schroedinger, Nature and the Greeks) When General Bernard Shriever, on a TV program, said "space and astronautics are still in the process of formulation,'' he echoed Im* manuel Kant who considered space and time to be forms of our mental intuition (Anschauung)—space being the form of external, time of internal, intuition...
...DEAR EDITOR IMRE NAGY The Soviet murder of Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy and the Commander of the Freedom Fighters, General Pal Maleter, is a crime unusual even in Soviet history—in which murder is cl governmental routine...
...The murder of Imre Nagy and his fellow Hungarian Freedom Fighters, the Moscow-Peking attack on Communist Yugoslavia, and the latter's charge that Red China is planning a war to seize all Asia at the cost of 300 million Chinese reveal how Communist nations can turn on one another and become bloodthirsty enemies...
...In a sense, the processes of the awakening infant mind are more profound than those of the adult who does not reflect upon the meaning of "space" and "time," and perhaps, too, of the one who does...
...The major powers fear an atomic war because of the enormous damage it would do, not because they axe certain that it would put an end to mankind...
...2. The UN's tacit recognition of the puppet Kadar Government must be withdrawn...
...He attached more importance to work on mental disease than to trips to the moon or to Mars...
...J. Robert Oppenheimer recently told the International Press Institute that the trouble with disarmament is not that it is too Utopian but that it is not Utopian enough...
...New York City Ruth Berenson, Executive Secretary American Friends of the Captive Nations Russell Bertrand Russell's suggestion that the West give up its atomic weapons ("Communism and Nuclear War," NL, May 26) is based on fantasy and fallacy...
...They love their work even if it does no good...
...In demanding what amounts to total surrender, Russell must believe that an all-Communist world would live in eternal peace...
...3. Economic sanctions, as provided for by Article 41 of the United Nations Charter, should be imposed against Hungary...
...This spirit gets a great lift from the widespread interest in "space travel...
...Only now we cannot be satisfied that everything is water or centers about this earth, although both are tremendously important to us "infants...
...There are scientists whose raison d' etre is not as utilitarian as Davy seems to require...
...The United States Government should do all in its power to galvanize the United Nations into action...
...Suddenly-seen things that were always there, presences which had no form before the light fell on them, come from preoccupation which must precede occupation...
...Finally, it must halt the exchange visitors program, which makes it possible for the Moiseyev Ballet to dance in Madison Square Garden while the children of General Maleter mourn their dead father...
...It must refuse to enter into any new trade or credit negotiations with the Soviets...
...Presumably, therefore, if clean H-bombs are developed thousands of them could be dropped during a wax without destroying humanity...
...Interestingly the Russians, while admitting that vast damage would be done, claim they can win in an atomic war...
...Oppenheiraer's opinion that many aspects of science were beyond laymen's understanding, and jabbed at what he (Davy) called "the infantile preoccupation with space travel...
...Lord Russell begins his argument with the prediction that the human race will certainly be snuffed out in an atomic war...
...The United Nations cannot allow this new insult to go unanswered, lest its honor and prestige, so badly damaged by its inability to respond to the Hungarians' pleas for help during the Revolution, be lost forever...
...New York City Bernard Herman Little by little, more and more of your authors seem to be slipping into acceptance of Bertrand Russell's conclusion that we have but two choices—war or surrender...
...This is a fallacy...
...At the time of the Hungarian Revolution, the United Nations passed no less than eleven resolutions calling for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary...
...And so fax some 200 atomic bombs have been dropped without making a dent in the human race...
...And as we try, we delight in it, we find it extremely interesting...
...These were wholly defied by the Soviets...
...If it should be downgraded, it is not because it is too infantile but because it is not infantile enough...
...Again arises the "infantile" question which the "first" Greek philosopher, Thales (or perhaps a predecessor), asked: "What is the world made of...
...A more realistic picture can be drawn from the fact that a leading member of Premier Charles de Gaulle's cabinet insists that France start making its own atomic weapons, and from the news that Communist China is straining to make its own atomic weapons and plans to launch a space satellite shortly...
...The UN's official emissary, Prince Wan Waithayakon, appointed last year to negotiate the withdrawal, was rudely rebuffed by Hungary's puppet Government and not even permitted to go to Budapest...
...Envin Schroedinger, the eminent theoretical physicist, in his Science and Humanism (1952), expresses doubt that the human race has been made happier because of the practical applications of rapidly progressing natural science...
...To the infant's gradually developing consciousness all space is "outer space...
Vol. 41 • June 1958 • No. 26
