Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR BEATNIKS In reference to William E. Bohn's column on the "Beatniks" ("The Home Front," August 17-24) : My understanding of the Beatniks is that they divide America into two groups—the...
...SAVI CLOUCH KHRUSHCHEV Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has good reasons to be more fearful of his own "people" than of the West...
...Judaism kills love for the Soviet motherland...
...This is why the Jews, above all, are the target of official discrimination, and why other religious minorities are largely ignored...
...The Soviet Government cannot afford any nationalism except Russian nationalism...
...WILD STRAWBERRIES Anyone who has the flippancy to call Wild Strawberries "one of the most natural car films on record" ("Wild 'Wild Strawberries,'" NL, August 31) is either a neurotic nonconformist, a maladjusted jokester or a Madison-Avenue-cleverness-unto-deathnik...
...All over Russia, one is impressed by the dedication of the Russian people to the work of building up their country...
...If today Soviet Jewry is alienated from the regime, it is as a result of the irrational Soviet policy of discrimination, initiated by Stalin and continued in less violent, but equally unmistakable forms by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.—Ed...
...As the documents cited in the special issue amply demonstrate, Soviet Jews, when given the opportunity, have historically participated with steadfast loyalty in the building up of their country...
...And a quote from Sovietskaya Moldavia, on Page 26, says: "The peculiar characteristic of most Jewish holidays is their clear expression of nationalism...
...How else are we to interpret his astonishing statement that "Any groups which abstain from this dedication [to the work of building up their country] must he destroyed...
...Leubsdorf's misunderstanding, it seems to us, stems from an egregious error in his own approach to this problem: He implicitly assumes that the USSR's assessment of the loyalty of Soviet Jewry is correct...
...DEAR EDITOR BEATNIKS In reference to William E. Bohn's column on the "Beatniks" ("The Home Front," August 17-24) : My understanding of the Beatniks is that they divide America into two groups—the brainwashed and the unwashed...
...Any groups which abstain from this dedication must be destroyed...
...Newburgh, N.Y...
...Conversations with a number of Russians revealed to me the same pattern of anti-Semitism pictured by The New Leader's editors...
...They are also undoubtedly anxious to travel abroad, read the books and newspapers of other countries, etc...
...He is the law and he rules for life, just as Stalin and Lenin did...
...The Russian people and the people of the "captive nations" must be tired of being deprived of the right to a fair trial, free press, free travel, free speech, free labor unions, and the selection of their officials...
...On Page 25, a Russian policeman, who dispersed Jews in Kharkov during New Year's services and confiscated Holy Scrolls, is quoted as saying: "You eat Russian bread, but you pray for Israel...
...This task, however, is so immense that all must join in it...
...In neglecting this point, THE NEW LEADER failed to show clearly why the Soviet Government is so determined to persecute the Russian Jewish community...
...Anyway you take it, I never could stand Manny Farber's style or utterances, and his latest attempt is adolescent beyond further words from me...
...However, the crux of Mr...
...New York City CARL P. LEUBSDORF A failure of communication seems indeed to have occurred, and tve would he genuinely regretful if any lack of clarity on THE NEW LEADER'S part contributed to it...
...For self-preservation, Khrushchev may have stopped the blood baths and slowed down his secret police...
...However, while presenting a damning set of facts on the Soviet Government's recent actions against Jews, the issue fails to explain clearly the reasons for this, although statements from various Soviet sources, reprinted in the issue, point clearly to them...
...JOHN HALCONE SOVIET JEWS As one who recently traveled in the Soviet Union, I was very much interested in the special issue (September 14) on "Jews in the Soviet Union...
...Such festivals as Passover, for example . . . give rise to nationalist feelings and poison the minds of Jews by diverting their thoughts to Israel, 'the land of their fathers...
...Pasadena, Calif...
...but his right to stop blood baths and slow down the secret police includes the right to restore them whenever he may wish to do so...
...Brooklyn NATHAN D. SHAPIRO...
Vol. 42 • September 1959 • No. 35
