Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR PEACE AND WAR I found the four articles published under the heading "Peace and War—1962" (NL, August 20) furnished a very useful survey of what is now going on both in the...
...Instead, they waste all their time haranguing us with the dangers of nuclear holocaust...
...London, England Michael Stolle Samuel P. Huntington's article, "The Realities of the Arms Race" was particularly disturbing...
...San Francisco, Calif...
...As one who has lived through those times (and who, incidentally, answered the Peace Ballot of 1935), I have continually found myself aggrieved at the shabby treatment the era has received at the hands of popular journalists and tendentious historians...
...Huntington's answer that it ends in arms control seems to me illusory...
...Gary Johnson Congratulations on the Between Issues column in your August 20 issue...
...Phillip Ross YANKEES GO HOME It was splendid to read Stanley Edgar Hyman's roundup of baseball books ("The National Pastime," NL, August 6), and learn that he has an abiding and forceful hatred of the New York Yankees...
...New York City Ronald Gross Congratulations on David Marquand's article, "The Lesson of Britain...
...With what admirable disdain he sweeps away naive "impassioned warnings" that we risk, disaster by continuing the arms race...
...Chicago, III...
...DEAR EDITOR PEACE AND WAR I found the four articles published under the heading "Peace and War—1962" (NL, August 20) furnished a very useful survey of what is now going on both in the grass-roots peace movements and, on a loftier plane, in the minds of the current batch of military strategists...
...Huntington writes: "A qualitative arms race need not impose an expanding burden on civilian society...
...Huntington points out, we are "bombarded" with warnings about the arms race...
...I particularly liked the neat climax, in which you expressed the hope that the articles would "illustrate that complex issues cannot be solved by such glib slogans as 'Love Your Enemies, All Men Are Brothers.'" I have long felt that if more people realized just how glib these slogans really are, we would not be in such a mess today...
...In fact, I distinctly recall the person in the lower left-hand corner at the protest over shelters in Grand Central Station—she was ripping the display apart with her bare hands...
...But there is such a dearth of materials available in the popular press which reassures us we are right and safe in a national policy based on weapons which would be employed only after all of us are dead...
...This shows real character, not to say impeccable taste and a firm sense of the very highest values...
...I only regret that you did not go further, indicating the more sophisticated and penetrating principles upon which we might have a better chance of building a civilized world order...
...David Dilworth...
...It is the most penetrating and original analysis of the various peace movements in England during the 1930s that I have ever seen...
...Please keep up the good work...
...Nor does it normally give either side an opportunity to achieve a decisive lead...
...Finally, your cover was the crowning touch...
...How enlightening it is to learn that any analysis of the arms race must start by "distinguishing between its quantitative and qualitative aspects...
...My sincerest good wishes to Hyman, whose loathing "remains undiminished...
...Those grim, distorted faces, surging forward in violent motion—they look just like every Peace March and Non-Violent Protest I have ever seen...
...Competition in this area often generates simultaneous innovation: If one side falls slightly behind in one generation of weapons, this very fact usually results in its pulling ahead in the next...
...And David Marquand's article on the British experience in the 1930s helped to put things in perspective, Los Angeles, Calif...
...It was good also to read the opening to Samuel P. Huntington's piece...
...It's a real pity that men like Einstein, C. P. Snow, Szilard and the rest fail to put first things first, and concern themselves with making such distinctions...
...I should like to ask one question: Where does it end...
...I was pleased to note that Marquand has dispelled a good many false notions about the "intimate relation" between appeasement and the peace movement...
...To loath the Yankees is a fine and patriotic thing to do...
...As Mr...
...They just don't seem to have the fine, balanced intellect of your contributor...
Vol. 45 • September 1962 • No. 18
