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DEAR EDITOR RUSSIAN DISARMAMENT I think we may conclude that the Russians want peace—more as a means of strengthening their administration and in the realization that war is an inefficient means...
...Albany KENNETH C. WHITE DEWEY CORRECTION In the New Leader supplement, "John Dewey, His Philosophy of Education and Its Critics" (November 2), the source of one of Dewey's quotations—"Not all who say Ideals, Ideals, shall enter the kingdom of the ideal, but only those shall enter who know and who respect the roads that conduct to the kingdom"—is incorrectly cited as Human Nature and Conduct, It is the concluding sentence of his "The Pragmatic Acquiescence," from the New Republic (January 5, 1927, p. 189...
...It is defensive to meet the opposition to Communism, justifiable as long as the West insists on making value judgments or broadcasting anti-Communist views behind the borders of the Communist bloc...
...DEAR EDITOR RUSSIAN DISARMAMENT I think we may conclude that the Russians want peace—more as a means of strengthening their administration and in the realization that war is an inefficient means of solving problems, than in terms of true humanistic values...
...The answer, strange as it seems to a Westerner, is that the Russian military might is defensive—and with some justification...
...But I suppose David J. Dallin ("Camp David Meeting," NL...
...the similar Communist belief...
...October 5) echoes the question of many when he asks why the Russians do not begin their disarmament first...
...inflexibility on both sides does not ease the situation...
...The West's assertion that its values are valid for the world is not much more sound than THE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
Vol. 42 • November 1959 • No. 41
