Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. NIXON I must protest the caricature of Richard Nixon on the cover of the...
...To me it is disgusting, almost obscene (though I know that is not quite the right word...
...The citation of the Dominican Republic intervention as a "category five" action ("To intervene in the abeyance of any accepted government or authority when civil war threatens total chaos") is also rather perplexing...
...Thus, our involvement in Vietnam is considered a "category two" action ("To respond to appeals from friendly governments . . . threatened by hostile domestic forces which are armed, supplied, organized, led or instructed beyond their national frontiers...
...If I am interpreting the "art" correctly, this should be saved for a Stalin or a Hitler...
...Long Island City, N. Y. Bertha Haves RA'ANAN I congratulate Uri Ra'anan on seeing the need for re-examining the concept of "spheres of influence" ("Challenge to the West," NL, September 26...
...Or hasn't Ra'anan heard that it had also just expropriated the property of the United Fruit Company...
...His categorization of the actions allowed to a great power under the spheres of influence concept is remarkable in its partiality...
...The correct spelling of his name is Sherman...
...Nixon as a candidate, but I do not feel so violently against him or any other man in public life...
...Is the United States permitted to create chaos by intervening in a civil war to support a faction which would otherwise have been defeated, but whose policies are more acceptable to our government...
...Surely the Diem government, which was not in any way democratically responsible to the people of South Vietnam, was also "armed, supplied, organized, led and instructed" by a foreign power —namely the U.S...
...I do not favor Mr...
...I'm sure Vice President Humphrey's press secretary, Norman Sheridan (sic), would agree...
...Leonia, N. J. Marvin Kitman Marvin Kitman replies: This may explain why Sherman hasn't accepted the invitation to have his candidate debate Nixon at my house...
...Ra'anan's assertion that the Arbenz regime of Guatemala was overthrown in 1954 purely because it "had just concluded an arms deal with Moscow" is a bit one-sided too...
...By contrast, he does not even mention its failure to offer substantial support to the Dubcek regime—by freeing frozen Czech accounts in the United States, by allowing the Czech government to open a trade office in New York, by offering to accept more Czech exports...
...Philadelphia, Pa...
...The trouble with the idea is that the people so conveniently parceled out among the great powers are not always happy with the way things are run within their sphere...
...His article is a piece of the purest Newspeak...
...Edward Ward SHERIDAN In all the years I've been following Marvin Kitman's work, I've never seen a typographical error like the one in his television column of September 23...
...I think Kitman should make a Sheridan-like statement on using that name in print again...
...Ra'anan's contention that "at no time after the postwar division of the globe has the West threatened—no less carried out—acts of force against a legitimate government merely because that government's composition and domestic (or . . . foreign) policy was not to its liking," is supported by these and other linguistic somersaults...
...Ra'anan is furious at the refusal of the Johnson Administration to adopt a more militant line toward the Soviet Union...
...NIXON I must protest the caricature of Richard Nixon on the cover of the August 26 issue of The New Leader...
...Mount Vernon, Ohio John Ross I find Uri Ra'anan's attempt to concoct a cold-war rationalization of the Czechoslovak-ian tragedy disingenuous...
...While it is no doubt absurd to expect any great power to insure freedom and justice throughout the world, it is hard to see how they can remain passive when certain basic rights are trampled on...
Vol. 51 • October 1968 • No. 19
