Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR SECTARIANS I want to say to Felix Albert ("Dear Editor," NL, June 6) that unless we learn to make distinctions between different categories of things, our thinking inevitably becomes...
...religion is not...
...SUSAN BODAN VIEW FROM LONDON In his article "The View from London" (NL, June 13), Denis Healey again urges the United Nations to recognize Red China...
...Likewise, criticism can be justified only by failure to obtain results dealing with the objectives and responsibility of the subcommittee...
...Searcy, Arkansas JAMES D. BALES REGULATORY AGENCIES I have read Julius Duscha's article ("Politics and the Regulatory Agencies," NL, June 6) with a great deal of interest...
...Everyone knows of the exposures in our study of the Federal Communications Commissions and of the Federal Power Commission...
...This difference in category makes all the different in the world, so much so that a totalitarian society can liquidate a totalitarian church...
...and wage psychological warfare to lull us to sleep with false hopes or paralyze us with fears whether false or real...
...There are also indications that the other three commissions, including the Civil Aeronautics Board, have been given no attention...
...As for the United Nations exerting a benign influence on China's development, recent events seem to indicate that the last thing in the world the Red Chinese want is any influence whatever from the West...
...I appreciate the attention given to the Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight and the recognition of its work in connection with the major regulatory agencies of the Government...
...endeavor to divide their enemies...
...Society is an all-embracing structure...
...Monterrey, Mexico FREDERICK E. LOWELL Denis Healey thinks that we should act on the assumption that we can help Khrushchev back to coexistence and thus help prevent the return of the cold war...
...True, Catholicism is a totalitarian religion, though perhaps it is more accurate today to describe it as highly authoritarian...
...I suppose that if Hitler were still in power Healey would advocate recognition of the Nazi regime...
...It too had physical power and political influence...
...A democratic society, accommodating in its freedom of religion a totalitarian religion as well as others, necessarily changes some of the rigid contours of the totalitarian church...
...These exposures were also startling and, though no hearings have been held, the committee has given a lot of study to both the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...Ostensibly Albert argues for separation of church and state...
...It is a period in which the Communists: consolidate their strength...
...DEAR EDITOR SECTARIANS I want to say to Felix Albert ("Dear Editor," NL, June 6) that unless we learn to make distinctions between different categories of things, our thinking inevitably becomes messy...
...I feel that any commendation of this committee can be justified only by the results of its work in public interest...
...increase their military and economic strength...
...I refer to his letter disagreeing with Reinhold Niebuhr on the subject of a Catholic candidate...
...Need I say that I hold no brief for either...
...As Reinhold Niebuhr wrote, "the ethos of a nation does much to erode the church's authority...
...For your information, the Federal Trade Commission was the first commission the subcommittee gave its attention immediately after I took the chairmanship in February 1958 and the Securities and Exchange Commission was the second...
...These bills are now under consideration of the committee...
...However, the fatal consequences of Munich should convince anyone that you simply can't have normal diplomatic relations with ruthless dictatorships, and the more power and influence they wield, the more dangerous it is to try...
...The pluralism of a society in all its facets influences all of life, including religion, even the Catholic church...
...As an example, the third paragraph of the article indicates that there is some question as to whether or not the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Communications Commission or the Federal Power Commission have been adequately looked into...
...Brooklyn, N.Y...
...REP...
...As to some in the Pentagon fighting against the very idea of lasting coexistence, Healey needs to remember that several years ago Khrushchev himself said that how long peaceful coexistence continued depended upon historic conditions...
...Catholicism is a religion...
...The study and investigation into these two commissions developed many highly important questions which led, among others, to the Goldfine disclosures...
...Communism and Catholicism cannot be filed together under the letter T. Communism is a form of society...
...He believes this war must continue until they win...
...But he does not think of them as different in kind or he would not cover Communism and Catholicism with the same blanket...
...OREN HARRIS...
...This seems to overlook the fact that coexistence is but another form of cold war...
...It was not the purpose of this subcommittee to destroy the agencies but to strengthen them in their processes...
...Washington, D.C...
...intensify subversion...
...When will we all learn that a Communist is a Communist, is a Communist, and that he considers himself to be continually at war with the non-Communist world...
...These deal with legislation needed in connection with the Federal Communications Commission and with ethical standards, conduct and expartee relations...
...Unfortunately, lack of information and recognition of the facts, or misunderstanding, has been too prevalent in connection with this work...
...True, Communism is a totalitarian form of society, as it has worked out in history...
...Furthermore, little attention is now being given to the legislative proposals that we have to meet some of these problems...
Vol. 43 • July 1960 • No. 27
