Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR THE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. NL IN PRAGUE I have just received the September 16 issue of Svobodno...
...However, today his most important need is for him to master the institution of the family, a matter which the liberal as yet does not consider primarily governmental...
...An article from India by Robert Trumbull in the New York Times on November 28, 1952 did so describe her...
...HUGH C. BURR I am grateful to C. I. Claflin for calling attention to the erroneous description, in my article, "The Presidency and the Church" (NL, November 9), of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur as Roman Catholic in religion...
...It is sad to contemplate the futile determination of liberals to find a moral imperative in advocating governmental intervention as the obvious answer to our social problems...
...Vancouver, B. C. STANLEY Z. PECH The quotation is from "America's New Image of Russia" by Richard Pipes (NL, August 31...
...THE REV...
...LIBERALS William Sparks ("On the Definition of Liberalism," NL, November 23) is correct in suggesting that current liberal opinion advocates governmental intrusion into the problems of "racial discrimination, sub-standard wages, and administered prices...
...He definitely implies a certain virtue in this advocacy, particularly because of the thorny nature of the decisions involved...
...A failing industry finds the Government now guaranteeing its loans to stimulate capital investment, because it is not allowed to run its business efficiently enough to produce the profits that could provide more modern equipment and higher wages...
...Abraham Stone was one of the great pioneers in the birth control movement, and his gentle courage won him many friends...
...HAROLD KORETZ BIRTH CONTROL In a letter on the position of religious groups vis-a-vis birth control ("Dear Editor," NL, November 30), C. I. Claflin reported not knowing "any other 'official [Anglican] approval' " of birth control than the "hesitant and confused" stand of the Lambeth Conference of 1930...
...The magazine NEW ZEADER [misspelling in original], writes: 'We are in the midst of a wave of pro-Soviet sympathy...
...I also regret that I never had the chance to correct a miswriting of "Abraham Stone" as "Abraham Epstein...
...Two friends of Amrit Kaur, however, who live in Berkeley, have confirmed that she is Anglican, Dot Roman Catholic...
...On the other hand, his progress since then can be attributed to his moving to the North, where voting rights, labor, and educational (sub-standard) opportunities can be said to have provided a basis for individual initiative (that accursed phrase...
...Obviously, there is a governmental role in any such problem, but this is not tantamount to the faith that the government inevitably produces "lesser evils...
...Individual intellectual integrity in our tightly organized society is today most threatened by the bureaucratic nature of the various organizational forms developed to perform different functions...
...Avoca, N.Y...
...Let me correct that impression...
...It ought, however, to compel us to question whether the values we have been prone to accept over the past several decades, and which now emerge, grotesquely distorted, in the Soviet Union, are realty valid...
...Rochester, N.Y...
...In 1958 the Lambeth Conference joined the position of the Augustona Lutherans, formulated in 1954, and that of many other denominations as well, in supporting birth control...
...The "lesser evil" of the Government assuming responsibility for "administered prices" in the railroad industry is a gruesome reminder of economic evil masquerading as protection of the weak from the marauding corporations...
...And in 1959 the United Presbyterians likewise strongly stated in substance that the will of God is best expressed in terms of "every child a wanted child," and that whatever methods a couple may use to achieve this result are morally acceptable...
...Should not the liberal stand in opposition to these threats, regardless of their source, whether corporate, governmental, union, educational, social or even ecclesiastical...
...to exercise its remarkable powers...
...NL IN PRAGUE I have just received the September 16 issue of Svobodno Slovo, the central organ of the "independent" National Socialist party of Czechoslovakia, and you will be amused to learn that it contains a quotation from the NEW LEADER.Here is the verbatim translation: "The American public is exhibiting unusual interest in the visit of N. S. Khrushchev...
...The extent of the Czechoslovak newspaper's distortion of Pipes' theme is revealed in the following sentences from his concluding paragraph: "An increase in Soviet productivity and scientific development will certainly challenge our security, but it need not challenge our way of life...
...Most of the mass media give priority to news from and about Russia, its life, achievements and aspirations.'" I hope you will treasure this example of your popularity behind the Iron Curtain...
...Is it not time for the liberal to give up his lesser evil for the greater good inherent in the tradition he espouses...
...Berkeley LEWIS S. FEVER...
...I take comfort that my unconscious evidently associated his work with that of Abraham Epstein, whose notable advocacy of social security legislation made him one of the spiritual precursors of the New Deal...
...The Civil War was definitely a governmental intervention which tipped the balance toward the Negro in his struggle for human rights...
...American interest in the Soviet Union, its people's life, the outstanding successes of Soviet science and technology, has increased sharply...
Vol. 42 • December 1959 • No. 46
