Dear Editor
Dear Editor Economic Axioms I really enjoyed George P. Brockway's column on "Dubious Entitlements" (NL, February 20). It is a brilliant and witty primer. I also am struck (not dumb) by what I...
...New York City Alvin Schrader Sorry Permit me to apologize to New Leader readers for assuming in "The Field Against Mondale" (NL, February 20) that Walter Mondale had the Democratic Presidential nomination in his pocket...
...Communist Party, were kicked out of the leadership in 1928...
...This was a shocking eye-opener, leading to further disillusionment on the part of the two men...
...The distinction, as Herman demonstrates, is a significant one...
...In an otherwise enthusiastic appraisal, Herman chides Deakin for his "choice of 'critics' over 'adversaries' to describe the journalistic fraternity...
...More likely was a bullet in the back of the brain, which he arranged with pleasure for all the still-living Bolshevik leaders...
...His reaction was to order their permanent detention in the Soviet Union, a fate worse than death...
...Coffeyville, Kans...
...Now we are indebted to him for his perceptive, and provocative, review of James Deakin's Straight Stuff: The Reporters, the White House and the Truth (NL, March 5...
...Landes: "The secret of profitable banking is to lend other people's money only to those who do not need it...
...White Plains, N. Y. Walter Goodman...
...The tyrant did not relish their ideological challenge...
...What is most amazing about Cogen's estimation of Wolfe's autobiography, A Life in Two Centuries, is the statement that "nowhere in the book did he clearly complain about Stalin's anti-democratic views and acts in governmental affairs...
...This is hardly strange, in view of Stalin's penchant for immediate punishment of "violators" of "holy writ" —although "gentle treatment," like expulsion from party or country, was for Stalin pretty rare...
...I would suggest that he read the book more carefully...
...In this connection I would also urge him to look at two of Wolfe's other books: The Bridge and the A byss and Khrushchev and Stalin's Ghost...
...those with money to lend (in general, the rich) are enriched, and those with a need to borrow (in general, the almost-poor) are impoverished...
...The Americans tried to convince Stalin, at a meeting of the Comintern executive committee in Moscow, of the idiocy of his pronouncement that world revolution, which would include the United States, was inevitable...
...If Cogen will send me a stamped envelope (my address is 4200 Cathedral Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20016), I will return it filled with a dozen citations, indicating the pages and lines where Wolfe does what Cogen says he did not do...
...I also am struck (not dumb) by what I presume to be the similarity of Brockway's views with some that are expressed by David S. Landes in a recent book of his that I am reading, Revolution in Time...
...Washington, D. C. Harry Goldberg Adversary Journalism Anyone who has been reading The New Leader since the Kennedy years will remember, I think with appreciation, George Herman's pieces in these pages from Washington while he was White House correspondent for CBS News...
...Sirs, are there other axioms of economics I have missed...
...His charge is blatantly false...
...It is true, as Cogen says, that Wolfe and Jay Love-stone, the co-leaders of the U.S...
...They succeeded in escaping from the USSR, but that's another story...
...Like the former Vice President, I should have known better...
...Moreover, it seems to me that both the public and the press would benefit if journalists, instead of parading around in a false cloak of objectivity, readily acknowledged their adversarial role...
...Writing before the New Hampshire primaries, I was relying on the polls...
...Don V. R. Drenner Bertram Wolfe Charles Cogen was way off beam in his critical letter on Bertram Wolfe("Dear Editor," NL, January 23...
Vol. 67 • April 1984 • No. 6
