Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. CAMUS I am astonished that Edouard Roditi should write, and The New...
...To place the foundation of his power and control on the ability of a foreign power to maintain it would, in the last analysis, have weakened Bosch's position and relegated him to the role of a Washington yes-man in the eyes of his countrymen...
...I, under ARA, published in 1958, states: "ARA officials announced the aim of ARA to be the giving of supplies...
...In his address last September to farmers in the southern Ukraine, he went on record with a definite preference for state farms over collective farms in newly-irrigated land...
...Camus fumbled this badly, as everyone knows...
...Johnson, Vt...
...For example, the Malava Sovetskaya Entsiklbpedia (Little Soviet Encyclopedia), Vol...
...This sentiment would be equally applicable even if intervention had come before the actual coup and Bosch's resultant exile...
...Roche is correct in saying that the instability in the Dominican Republic is...
...The notebooks are a writer's workbooks, precisely the place in which he searched for his style, as well as for his subject...
...Waltham, Mass...
...This was revealed in Khrushchev's speech of September 28 and again on October 6 in a "Letter to the Central Committee...
...They contain nothing about his wife either, or his friends, his work as a journalist, his connection with the Théâtre d'Equipe, etc...
...New York City A. L. Weeks HYMAN It would be unfair to the rest of your excellent magazine to say that Stanley Edgar Hyman is the reason for my renewal...
...gave Lenin's Russia $61.5 million worth of commodities—enough to help some 10 million Russians survive famine...
...let him at least do so in honest, explicit terms...
...As he said to a heckler at the time he was awarded the Nobel Prize, "I love justice, but I love my mother more...
...Judy might have pointed out that U.S...
...shipments of wheat and other agricultural produce to the Soviet Union are not without precedent...
...Yet many of these same minerals are consumed by the defense industry...
...I would again agree with Draper when he says, "I can hardly see Juan Bosch willing to go back to Santo Domingo at the head of or behind the United States Marine Corps...
...Louis Cannon...
...If it was the case that President Bosch was "powerless to cope with his oversized armed forces...
...If Khrushchev is to be taken literally when he says that increased production of mineral fertilizers must be achieved, as he expressed it...
...He was an artist...
...These two documents show that a serious effort is going to be made to increase the production of mineral fertilizers, and that this must mean a sacrifice for heavy industry, especially the defense industry...
...Judy did not mention Khrushchev's proposals with respect to irrigation...
...Details will be annouced at the Central Committee plenum scheduled for late November...
...These points are of no importance...
...And for God's sake, why berate the poor guy for getting the Nobel Prize...
...Roditi also brings up...
...If Roditi wants to argue with a dead Camus about this...
...In the 1920s, under the auspices of the American Relief Administration (ARA) directed by Herbert Hoover, the U.S...
...San Jose, Calif...
...Roditi makes two primary charges against the Carnets, first that they lack style, second that they lack profundity...
...This suggests that Khrushchev continues to favor the more fully Socialist form of agriculture—the state farm...
...He was the first to say he should not have been given it...
...As for profundity, the easiest and least useful of intellectual virtues...
...CAMUS I am astonished that Edouard Roditi should write, and The New Leader should print, such a poorly argued attack on Camus ("Crumbs from Camus' Table," October 28...
...Hyman is only the best reason...
...but his proposed solution cannot constructively reverse the situation...
...on a "shock basis," then a major shift in investment over to the construction of fertilizer plants is probable...
...Robert Beller RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE There are several points I think might be made in addition to those so well stated by Richard Judy in his article, "Russia's Continuing Crisis," (NL, October 28...
...But to criticize the Carnets for containing little about Algerian problems is ridiculous...
...I find Theodore Draper's proposal—that the President answer the unlawful seizure of power in the Dominican Republic with the same measures currently being directed towards Castro's Cuba — preferable, even if the immediate results be less dramatic than we might hope...
...This is hardly the way to instill a love and respect for the precepts of democracy in a people that has for so long borne the dictatorship of selfinterest...
...It is extremely important that the Khrushchev regime now intends to divert funds and materiel from heavy industry to agriculture...
...John Roche would choose to substitute one form of suppression, both political and personal, for another...
...This was also his policy in the Virgin Lands program, and he appears to be a promoter of the post-Stalin trend toward enlarging the state farms at the expense of the collectives...
...at least that group represented an interest from within...
...The most important chemical in the manufacture of fertilizer or of any other chemical compound is sulphuric acid, which Khrushchev calls "the bread and butter of chemicals...
...They were...
...No reputable, or disreputable, critic has ever said otherwise...
...His mother was living in Algiers at the time, an easy victim of possible reprisals...
...Camus was, of course, fully and constantly aware of the Algerian mess, he wrote about it continually and filled one whole volume of his Actuelles with essays and editorials on this issue...
...In fact, however, it was used for the purpose of fighting against the revolution . . . and in the U.S.S.R...
...why should one expect them to be finished writing...
...It is also in harmony with the pledge in the present Party Program that all collective farm property is to be transferred, eventually, to State ownership...
...But is The New Leader trying to give us responsible journalism, or isn't it...
...And if he did not take a stand which most of us would have wished, he had his reason...
...That is the oldest gibe in the envious critic's attache case...
...And this trend seems to be related to the redefinition of collectivized peasants as "village proletarians...
...When President Kennedy stated at a press conference that "The Russian people will know that they are receiving American wheat...
...One need not, should not, write like an academician or a toady or a disciple...
...again, Camus' attitudes on the Algerian question...
...to a large extent, due to American stupidity...
...Sulphur, phosphorus, and even metals are required for the manufacture of superphosphates and other fertilizers...
...I repeat, a writer's workbooks, nothing more...
...for spying and underground activity against the Soviet regime...
...Prizes, Nobel or other, mean nothing, as Camus knew perfectly well...
...To quote Khrushchev: "What we are speaking of now is the construction of mainly sfate farms, sovkhozv, on newly-irrigated lands" (italics added.—A.L.W...
...Roditi's piece is a disgrace...
...Hayden Carruth DOMINICAN DEBACLE In suggesting American military interference in the internal affairs of the Dominican Republic...
...We must not place the leaders of our less fortunate Latin American neighbors in a position where they are forced to renounce their individuality and in turn their personal dignity so as to maintain a facade of strength and control...
...perhaps he and his advisers were aware that ARA aid is misrepresented in contemporary Soviet reference books...
...The basis of a world community of sovereign nations, as in the community of individuals, is the regard by each member for the self-respect and integrity of another...
...Camus was not a philsopher, as he himself protested over and over again...
Vol. 46 • November 1963 • No. 24
