Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR NEW COVER Congratulations on your new covers. They are attractive and entice one to stale at the photos. This should result in new readers as it adds new breath of life. Jackson...
...Instead he recommends: "Combat the Communist goals, to spread the cause of democracy (in terms of Western experience and terminology...
...New York City Bruno Shaw Professor Richard L. Walker's apparently knowledgeable report on Communist China (special issue, October 20) starts out with the insightful statement that our failure to understand and give leadership to Asia and its revolution is because American policy "views the West as civilization itself and treats the other cultural areas as of minor importance' and tends "to handle its (Asian) problems in terms of Western experience and terminology...
...But what a difference in the two men's execution of the concept...
...Los Angeles Isidore W. Ruskin, M. D. Good for William E. Bohn, who has at last smashed one of the venerated taboos which mesmerizes U. S. foreign policy...
...Jackson Heights, N. Y. Marvin Maurer I do not care for your picture cover idea, except for occasional special issues...
...Finally in his conclusion he states that, as we wage the cold war, "it cannot alone be in terms of negative and defensive anti-Communism...
...Precisely what that would achieve—apart from frightening half the world out of its wits—I cannot see...
...Patrick O'Hara FRANCE Andre Philip's "De Gaulle and French Democrats" (NL, October 27) casts indirect light on our own situation...
...Of course, keeping China out of the UN is "no solution...
...he would have us recognize the masters of Red China for what they are, indeed, but we should treat them as President Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested in October 1937 we should treat the Japanese: "Let us quarantine the aggressor...
...After all you are an intellectual "leader" not a picture rag...
...Alas, he is mired down in the very propaganda in "Western experience and terminology" that he decries...
...He sounds like Dulles, Nixon et al...
...On the other hand, if we wish to retain the UN as a useful forum and diplomatic instrument, realistically mirroring the world as it is...
...Flushing, N. Y. Lily Berkowitz In departing from the appearance of a sectarian journal, you are to be congratulated...
...He has provided the evidence, and presented the indictment...
...Philip speaks of de Gaulle's concept of the essential national interest, above partisan views, an interest which can be determined by competent technicians and civil servants...
...Washington, D. C. Alexander Farnham...
...He should not be asked, as Bohn demands, to write another "about what can be done...
...If we want to transform the UN into a Parliament of Saints, or another NATO, then the nation to expel first is the motherland of Communism, the USSR...
...So far as keeping these political lepers out of the UN is concerned, this is a basic first condition...
...This is, to some degree, also the view of President Eisenhower—or at least it seemed to be before the recent campaign...
...His recommendations...
...Not dedicated attempt to export the benefits of democracy, not helping these Asian countries get the material help in quantities that we can afford and will be reasonably effective (We have 4 million unemployed many under-employed and much of our industrial plant idle which could have been employed to help these underdeveloped countries get started in democracy...
...If we disregard it, we will have thrown in the towel and all that will be left for us to do is to wait for Communism to overwhelm us...
...Hunter has been, so to speak, the district attorney...
...Whereas de Gaulle silences Soustelle, Eisenhower becomes Nixon...
...The judges are the intelligent people of the world...
...If I read him correctly, he says quite the opposite...
...Paul, Minn...
...We must be willing to exploit the weakness of the enemy make him fail...
...Where is Professor Walker's insightful and hopeful new program for helping the Asians build democracy in Asia...
...All arguments against keeping China (or Kadar's Hungary) out of the UN apply equally to Khrushchev's Russia...
...Hunter has written a book that should make the world gasp with horror at what is going on in mainland China...
...Cleveland Ernest Philbin CHINA I am appalled by William E. Bohn's reaction, in his October 27 column, to Ed Hunter's Black Book on Red China...
...its universality is required, Mao, Kadar et al...
...Nowhere does Hunter say that this is a solution, or that we should pretend that Red China "isn't there...
...Bohn tells us that Hunter's recommendation to keep Red China out of the United Nations "is no solution," and that "pretending it isn't there doesn't help...
...Whereas de Gaulle has already begun to make the difficult choices required to solve the Algerian problem, to install the European Common Market and to revamp NATO, Eisenhower has run out of gas in the middle of the road Whereas de Gaulle has rallied such competent civil servants as Couve de Murville, Eisenhower shuns men like George Kennan and Chip Bohlen...
...Perhaps now that Senators Knowland and Jenner will depart Washington, we can at last begin to move toward the realistic two-China accommodation urged by John Scott, David J. Dallin and others...
Vol. 41 • November 1958 • No. 41
