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Dear Editor United Nations Of course the career bureaucrats at Turtle Bay think the UN serves a useful purpose not readily apparent in its endless debates ("The UN's Other Dimension," NL, October...
...Issues," NL, July 12-26...
...Boston Donald Ashford...
...Adolf Sturmthal Professor of International Labor Relations University of Illinois Kitman In between the wisecracks, Marvin Kitman occasionally does address a serious issue...
...I must plead ignorance as to the relative degrees of anti-Zionism of George Marshall and Dean Acheson, and appreciate Niebuhr's information on this point...
...Rodman does the late author an injustice...
...This clause could lend itself to misuse, although I am not aware of any such incident so far...
...Nowhere have 1 seen the issues involved laid out so clearly...
...George Crile's "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception," TV Guide's "Anatomy of a Smear," and CBS News' subsequent memorandum on the whole affair constitute an object lesson in how the First Amendment is often thwarted when it comes to television journalism...
...Albany, M Y. Christopher Niebuhr Stephen J. Whitfield replies: The Perlmutters are in no way responsible for the confusion Christopher Niebuhr mentions...
...Dear Editor United Nations Of course the career bureaucrats at Turtle Bay think the UN serves a useful purpose not readily apparent in its endless debates ("The UN's Other Dimension," NL, October 18...
...But the Big Apple would be a much happier place if all the Third World panjandrums were compelled to badmouth the wicked United States from a UN headquarters in Moscow or Tripoli or Singapore or some other spot on the nether side of the globe...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. Jack Feldman Secretaries In a review of Nathan and Ruth Ann Perlmutter's The Real Anti-Semitism in America ("Cloaked in Anti-Zionism/' NL, October 4), Stephen J. Whitfield refers to Dean Acheson as Truman's Secretary of State in 1948...
...Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1982...
...Two major points were involved: the nature of the IISH's relationship to the Marx-Engels institutes in East Berlin and Moscow, and the apparent effort to control publications based on the documents in the possession of the IISH...
...the Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries, Moscow 1922...
...Let's make the UN a mobile organization and free up some of that valuable Manhattan real estate it occupies for people who really need the space...
...Acheson assumed the post in 1949...
...George Marshall was in fact the Secretary of State that year...
...Special permission is required for "quotations longer than six lines...
...In his column on General Westmoreland and CBS News, he has done so with flair ("Truth and Balance at CBS News," NL, August 9-23...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. Robert Friedman Moral Fiction I think John Gardner was mostly wrongheaded about art and morality...
...Van der Leeuw ("Between The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Gertrude Samuels, in searching for the worth of the World Organization, turned up nothing new there...
...Clarification Readers may remember my communication on the disputes concerning the Marx-Engels archives at the Amsterdam International Institute for Social History ("Between Issues," NL, May 17) and a reply by the institute's director, J.R...
...Was the criticism of Acheson in the Perlmut-ters* book, or did your reviewer get George Marshall and Dean Acheson mixed up...
...Yet even he was not so naive as to insist that for a novel to pass muster the good must end happily and the bad unhappily-As Selden Rodman suggests in the course of reviewing Mickels-son's Ghosts ("Gardner's Last Novel," NL, October 4...
...Champaign, III...
...The diplomats should take their dubious business elsewhere...
...To cite one instance of their political independence, a recent IISH publication authored by Marc Jensen (which deserves attention in this country) is entitled: A Show-Trial Under Lenin...
...It is slightly more difficult for me to endorse the rules that remain in place for the use of IISH documents...
...As to the first point, I am now satisfied that the arrangements made between Amsterdam, East Berlin and Moscow are of a nonpolitical nature...
...Both the director of the Amsterdam Institute and one of his principal collaborators are Social Democrats in good standing...
...From my reading of Truman Administration records, one of the major differences between Truman's first and second Administrations was that Acheson was more favorable to the State of Israel than Marshall...
Vol. 65 • November 1982 • No. 21
