Dear Editor
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Enough is Enough As much as I loved your special issue on "The Other...
...For either UN resolutions are to be taken seriously, or they are not...
...Bronx, N. Y. David R. Zukekman...
...That the art of diplomacy as practiced at the UN is simply acceptable hypocrisy Herzog amply demonstrated...
...Beyond this, Hans J. Morgenthau's "What Sol-zhenitsyn Doesn't Understand," in the same issue should have been entitled: "What Morgenthau Doesn't Understand...
...Nor could I stomach "Bailing out Zaire" (NL, July 3), written, ironically enough, by "a European correspondent for Israel's Ha'aretz...
...I might add that anyone who doesn't think the West is declining either hasn't bought a car lately or hasn't been invited to what passes for "a party" these days...
...Cairo and Riyadh belie all their assurances of how moderate they would become after being allowed to buy American-made warplanes...
...Solzhenitsyn may have his objective eccentricities, yet his subjective critique of Russian Marxism cannot be ignored...
...Richard J. Margolis, in his piece on "Groping for Intimacy" (NL, July 17), jots down a quote that as he has it, goes: "He who believes in absurdities commits atrocities...
...The Carter Administration may attempt to downplay this development, but then it would have to downplay the United Nations as a place to do serious business...
...Certainly, by joining the cosponsors...
...Mamaroneck, N. ? Richard Hanser Richard J. Margolis replies: Richard Hanser has taught me the following les-1 son: If we believe overheardities, we shall commit impetuosities...
...That is to say, the Administration would have to reverse its approach, these past 17 months, to the UN...
...Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...Still, for these two countries to join the call for an arms embargo against Israel after they succeeded in obtaining a commitment for American weapons by linking their requests to a prior U.S...
...Since I regard this as a wonderfully acute remark, I hate to (1) see it quoted wrongly, and (2) at- j tributed to the wrong person...
...Arab Double-dealing A footnote to Gertrude Samuels' interview with Israel's ambassador to the United Nations ("A Talk with Chaim Herzog," NL, June 19): Egypt and Saudi Arabia have joined the list of cosponsors of a UN draft resolution—introduced by Iraq at the special session on disarmament—calling for an arms embargo against Israel...
...Recently I retrieved for Walter Pater a saying you cavalierly donated to Schopenhauer, and now I pounce again...
...commitment to Israel can only be definitive double-dealing...
...Enough is Enough As much as I loved your special issue on "The Other Economy" (NL, May 8), I can no longer take your apparently blind pro-Israeli bias (1 know the Arab countries are a bunch of turds but there really is no explaining away the Palestinians...
...Michael N. Moore For the Record I seem to have constituted myself the quotation watchdog of the NL...
...The article read like a slightly rewritten CIA press release and made me wonder if Salpeter hadn't suppressed any natural urges toward truth that your magazine may have had...
...Actually, it was said by the late Indian philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and should read: "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities...
...Margolis accepts this as coming from George Bernard Shaw...
Vol. 61 • September 1978 • No. 18
