Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR PORTUGAL Daniel M. Friedenberg's article ("Visit to Portugal," NL, June 8) gave me immense pleasure. In these frenzied days, we need more of such leisurely and perceptive pieces...
...New York City ALFRED KOHLBERG...
...For instance, the Blue Nuns, at whose convent inside Rome the philosopher lived in World War II and postwar years, is not a Protestant, but a Catholic order, as Eastman correctly assumed and Keene ineptly miscorrected Eastman for assuming...
...June 1) that the Overseas Chinese recognize that the struggle for what remains of East Asia is between Red China and us...
...Such men would not admire a United States that broke its treaty of military alliance with Chiang Kai-shek's government, Spector to the contrary notwithstanding...
...Pittsburgh, Pa...
...though we may not accept Eastman's statement of the terms of the conflict...
...Formosa doesn't count...
...This is a libel on Chinese everywhere who place loyalty above all else...
...In these frenzied days, we need more of such leisurely and perceptive pieces which introduce us to cultures and ways of thinking that are different from, yet not necessarily inferior to, our own...
...During World War II, my Chinese contractors near Swatow protected my goods from the Japanese even at the risk of their lives, had they been found out...
...DEAR EDITOR PORTUGAL Daniel M. Friedenberg's article ("Visit to Portugal," NL, June 8) gave me immense pleasure...
...And even on a more arguable point, some of us who occasionally chatted with Santayana in his Roman days will continue to think that Eastman is morely nearly correct than Keene in his diagnosis of the "unresolved conflict" in the mind and soul of the romantic Santayana...
...So he proposes that we be "realists," recognize the Red Chinese and drop Chiang Kai-shek, thus gaining the admiration of the Overseas Chinese...
...JOHN WRIGHT Bishop of Pittsburgh OVERSEAS CHINESE Stanley Spector says ("Overseas Chinese...
...Boston MARTHA STANTON SANTAYANA To adapt her own somewhat patronizing phrasing, little errors of fact in Frances Keene's review of Max Eastman's Great Companions ("Eastman's Public and Private World...
...June 8) lead to defects of understanding in the appreciation of George Santayana...
...Let Frances Keene give back to Catholicism the extremely well-known and greatly beloved Blue Nuns, even if she cannot give us back poor Santayana...
Vol. 42 • June 1959 • No. 25
