Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR THE SNOWS I usually admire your section on "Writers and Writing" very much, and thoroughly agree with the correspondents who have particularly praised the work of Stanley...
...New York City Albert L. Weeks Jr...
...New York City George T. Diller 'USSR' IN AMERICA I was interested in William Bohn's comments on "'USSR' vs...
...And, as a long-time subscriber who was initially opposed to The New Leader's change in format back in September of last year, allow me to take the opportunity of making amends and saying how well-suited John Groth's illustrations were to Chu's article...
...Southampton...
...I strongly object, however, to the statement that C. P. Snow (he never calls himself Sir Charles) and Pamela Hansford Johnson are aligned with the British Establishment, whatever that may be...
...Dean Witkin THE FAMINE-MAKERS' Valentin Chu's "The Famine-Makers" in the June 11 issue of The New Leader is an article to be read very carefully and to be remembered...
...Bohn mentioned that both magazines have "a distinctly American look...
...DEAR EDITOR THE SNOWS I usually admire your section on "Writers and Writing" very much, and thoroughly agree with the correspondents who have particularly praised the work of Stanley Edgar Hyman...
...If Conquest means by the British Establishment the Conservative party, Oxford, Cambridge and the BBC—an inaccurate and unhappy conjunction that frequently is taken to mean the Establishment—the Snows do not qualify, as Conquest must know if he has followed the recent controversy in the Spectator that followed F. R. Leavis' attack upon Snow...
...Decent reporting on affairs in Communist China is in itself hard to come by...
...I think he should have added that this is due to their both being published in the United States...
...Snow would rather give his life in avoiding the necessity of barricades of any kind whatsoever...
...Now Conquest, with a cooler head than Dr...
...Fairfield Porter May I say how pleased I was with Valentin Chu's article, "The Famine-Makers...
...Louisville, Ky...
...Harvey Curtis Webster Robert Conquest's review of Stories From Modern Russia, edited by C. P. Snow and his wife, the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, seemed to me just right...
...to find an article such as Chu's, which is thorough, comprehensive and well-written, is indeed exceptional...
...F. R. Leavis' attack against Snow at Cambridge earlier this year, to my mind much justified if not altogether well performed, failed to point out with sufficient clarity the many grounds on which Sir Charles deserved his come-uppance...
...If one examines Soviet magazines printed in the Soviet Union, one sees at once that the quality of the color prints, photographic plates and overall makeup—not to mention the paper itself—are far inferior to the U.S.printed USSR or to most other magazines published in the U.S...
...Perhaps the Snows, whose Introduction I have not read, know less about Soviet literature than Conquest...
...Each issue of USSR bears this inscription beneath its Table of Contents: "Printed by Haynes Lithograph Co., Rockville, Md...
...Zhivago, it is with some diffidence that I must object to Robert Conquest's review of Stories from Modern Russia ("The Snows and Burintern Solidarity," NL, June 11...
...New York City Mark Burton For clarity of expression, effectiveness of summarization, and soundness of analysis, Valentin Chu's "The Famine-Makers" is without peer...
...Jefferies Landing, Miss...
...I intend to have copies sent to several of my friends...
...Leavis', has supplied a number of these grounds...
...From what I know of Snow's magananimity and charity, I think Conquest is right in preferring not to be beside him on any barricade...
...But since I am friendly with the Snows and admire their work, and since my knowledge of current Soviet literature is limited to the recent Partisan Review anthology and Dr...
...Groth's art, it seemed to me, served to bring the element of human suffering that is the result of the Communist Chinese bureaucrat's scandalous bungling into sharper focus...
...Amerika'" (NL, June 11...
Vol. 45 • June 1962 • No. 13
