Dear Editor
Dear Editor Appeal I must apologize for taking so long in responding to your campaign to keep The New Leader going. Unfortunately I am unemployed, and it has taken a while to scrape together $10....
...Like so many of the people who have contributed, I too wish it could be more...
...His defection indicates that not even the artists of his persuasion are content in Cuba...
...We hear of repercussions in Europe: Yugoslavia has established more friendly relations with Albania, China's only European ally, apparently indicating a nervousness that is shared by Rumania...
...Belgrade and Bucharest may be suffering a case of understandable but unfounded jitters, yet who can be sure in view of the frost that fell on the Prague Spring...
...President Nixon and his advisers may have thought out all of these contingencies, arriving at the conclusion that the risks are acceptable, and their estimate may prove correct...
...Apart from the immediate costs to all humanity, there is the probability that nuclear weapons would be used, spreading radioactivity over many neighboring countries...
...Harris, though, is at least gracious enough to acknowledge his primary source—unlike Jack Newfield, whose "A Populist Manifesto" in the July 19 issue of New York only states that Tyler has done some work in the field...
...Columbus, Ohio DAVID C. BURNS Cubans Discover Cuba In "Discovering Castro's Cuba" (NL...
...RON MILLS Although I have been a subscriber only eight months...
...whether or not he will make himself vulnerable to diplomatic extortion by going to Peking less than a year before the election—when he will have to return with some sort of an agreement if he wants to stay in office—is another matter...
...Carlos Franqui, the founder and first editor of Revolution, the official organ of the 26 of July Movement, belonged to Cuba's old Communist party...
...Berkeley CARL LANDAUER Vouchers Sister Mary Ramona's contribution to your special section, "Vouchers & Public Education: An Exchange of Views" <NL, September 6), deserves serious consideration, for it seems to offer a way to keep the nation's private and parochial schools alive...
...With labor leader David Salvador?another cp alumnus—he was among the most vocal members of the revolutionary government in warning Castro not to embrace Communism...
...In an interview with Laura Bergquist of Look magazine in 1964 or '65, he arrogantly said of his fellow architects that "the house builders have left Cuba...
...Moreover, if the war ended not in stalemate but in victory for one side, we would face an intolerable balance of power: either a Soviet Union with a Chinese puppet or a China with a Soviet puppet...
...Thank you for your contribution...
...It is cer tainly preferable to the alternative of having a majority of the nation's private and parochial schools go out of existence...
...Philadelphia JOSEPH CLARK Populist Popularity Jonathan Cottin ("Populist Long Shot," NL, August 9) credits the Kingfish, Huey Long, with inspiring Fred Harris' and George McGovern's "new populism...
...One, including Salvador, went into active opposition—its members are now dead, in prison or in exile—and the other, including Carlos Franqui, decided to stick it out under Castro even though disagreeing with his chosen path...
...Obviously, an attack on Yugoslavia, though perhaps not one on Rumania, would pose an undesirable dilemma for the United States...
...Best of luck in meeting this crisis...
...has good reason to prefer that Sino-Soviet relations do not become too friendly, but an overwhelmingly stronger reason to hope that the two powers do not go to war against each other...
...the artists have remained...
...he was more aware than others of the dangers of a totalitarian system of government...
...June 28) Leo Sauvage says several things that needed to be said about the hypocrisy, irresponsibility, or perhaps naivete, of those intellectuals who only now appear to realize that Castro's Communism is not the humane experiment they had touted...
...THE NEW LEADER has already established itself as my favorite publication?and it has some stiff competition...
...opposition to the Chinese, may try to protect its southwestern flank by an action similar to its invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...When Castro did, the overwhelming majority of the revolutionaries split into two groups...
...Since Sauvage limited his discussion to the changing attitudes of non-Cuban intellectuals, he did not mention that two Cubans also signed the letters to Castro protesting the fate of poet Heberto Padilla...
...This, of course, is nothing new, but let us welcome those who seem to be arriving now at the same conclusions most of us in the revolutionary government reached in the fall of 1959...
...T would be very sorry if it could no longer be published...
...Partial Tuition Grants, or some other mechanism...
...Much worse, however, would be a preventive Soviet strike against China, which could conceivably be motivated by Russia's fear that the People's Republic—now presumably safe from American intervention?might attack Siberia...
...The presence of the two, Carlos Franqui and Ricardo Porro, among the signatories is a highly significant reflection of current conditions in Cuba...
...apparently THE NEW LEADER is required reading for Presidential hopefuls...
...The pivotal power is, of course, the Soviet Union...
...Both seem to think that Russia, no longer able to count on U.S...
...New York City DAVID RUBIN...
...Consequently, I'm very upset to hear that its life is in jeopardy...
...With the Roman Catholics alone predicting a loss this fall of 800 schools and over 400,000 students—most of whom will be forced to turn to the already overcrowded public schools—it is clearly in the national interest to find some means of providing Federal aid to nongovernment schools...
...Contrary to Robert Lekachman's fears, the record shows that most of them have made commendable progress in integration, and their importance as a source of diversity and innovation in education is incontestable...
...Nonetheless, this new situation is far more difficult to appraise than was our Vietnam venture at the beginning of the major escalation in 1965—so seriously misjudged by a President whose advisers held credentials then considered equal to those of Henry Kissinger...
...Mass...
...Somerville...
...Initially drawn to The New Leader by the knowledge that John Simon and Marvin Kitman (whose efforts at Monocle I fully enjoyed) wrote for it, I discovered that the entire magazine was as excellent as I had hoped...
...Ricardo Porro, a member of the professionally oriented Resistencia Civica in 1958, is an avant-garde architect who designed the Palacio de Bellas Artes built on the former golf links of the Havana Country Club...
...In his new book, Now Is the Time, Harris does little more than summarize and elaborate upon Tyler's 13-part series, "Agenda for the Democrats" (NL, February 17-September 1, 1969...
...Enclosed find my two-year renewal and a small contribution to help with the immediate difficulty...
...He neglects, however, to mention the senators' enormous debt to Guy Tyler...
...The U.S...
...The decision of these two Cuban Leftists should leave no doubt that one with an independent mind cannot lead a normal life in today's Cuba...
...New York City ANTONIO DE LA CARRERA Weighing the Risks I agree with Richard L. Walker ("Nixon's Peking Ploy," NL, August 9) that there is no great danger of President Nixon's being duped by the Chinese...
...it is an important periodical that we all need...
...In 1959, he was (and seems to be now) a left-wing Socialist, but having been in the cp...
...Sister Ramona's solution to the constitutional problem of maintaining church-state separation—by making some aid available to parents and letting them allocate it to the school they choose to have their children attend—is the most logical approach, whether it be done through vouchers...
...But the more serious question is: Have Nixon and his advisers correctly calculated the hazards of upsetting an international equilibrium that, though containing some dangers and difficulties, is still far better than no equilibrium...
Vol. 54 • September 1971 • No. 18
