Dear Editor
Dear Editor Standards Barry Gewen, reviewing two books on the press ("Power and the Press," NL, January 27) attributes "the highest professional standards" to CBS, ABC, NBC, The New York Times and...
...The likelihood of voiding debt diminishes as its ratio increases relative to GNP...
...Or is it more unusual for a distinguished economist to state (reminiscent of Irving Fisher's optimism in 1928) thai an increasing deficit may be tolerated...
...JohnS...
...NL, January 13...
...It charges them with granting pro-Arab spokesmen disproportionate space, disseminating uninvestigated falsehoods and reacting with emotion...
...Davidson's only fear appears to be that some patriotic gunslinger will topple the Republic in the name of voiding the Federal debt—a debt the government incurred in part by subsidizing inferior American products...
...By 1930, the party's ranks swelled to include anti-Communists, trade unionists, and most important of all, conservatives and industrialists...
...See Konrad Heiden's DerFuehrer, pp...
...479-565...
...New York City John Goff Dismal Dialectics Is Paul Davidson correct in saying that "the public has been brainwashed to fear deficits will cause the economic sky to fall (' 'Can We Afford to Balance the Budget...
...Dear Editor Standards Barry Gewen, reviewing two books on the press ("Power and the Press," NL, January 27) attributes "the highest professional standards" to CBS, ABC, NBC, The New York Times and the Washington Post...
...He should reconsider the result of the continued deficit spending he advocates...
...The Media's War Against Israel, edited byStephen Karetzky and Peter E. Goldman (Steimatzky, 423 pp., $16.95), finds those journalistic paragons ignorant of Middle Eastern culture, biased against Israel and intimidated by Arab extremists...
...Giliispie I write regarding the excerpt from GyOrgy Konr ad's address to the 48th International PEN Congress accompanying Mihajlov's article...
...Specifically, Konrad's statement that "Hitler came to power by winning a legal election" requires some clarification...
...Through the machinations of influential conservatives in Parliament, who threw their support to Hitler in order to maintain their own power, von Hindenburg was forced to appoint Hitler Chancellor in 1933...
...How shall we respect the journalistic standards of those who blame the destruction of Lebanon on Israel's 1982 invasion, even though that destruction was almost wholly perpetrated by the Syrians and the PLO years earlier...
...One wonders what he would make of a third new book that presents a very different judgment...
...But Mihajlov fails to mention Konrad's most glaring misstatement: that Hitler came to power "by winning a legal election...
...Instead of stimulating a return to productivity, this trend may prepare the way for the awful possibility of having our industrial capitalism renounced in a Gang of N insurrection...
...The defeat, however, was relatively inconsequential...
...As head of the burgeoning National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi) in the late 1920s, he propagated an obsessive brand of Fascism based on ultranationalism and anti-Semitism that found support in an economically depressed country...
...A few months later his Nazi Party gained a plurality in the German parliamentary elections...
...Hitler refused, holding out for the Chancellorship...
...Blacksburg, Va...
...Hitler's prominence was such that he ran in the 1932 Presidential election...
...New York City Richard H. Shulman Points of Information Mihajlo Mihajlov notes that there are "several flaws in GyOrgy Konrad's argument" before the48th International PEN Congress, which urged the West "to offer something to the Soviets in return for their granting neutrality to Eastern Europe" ("The Wrong Road to Freedom," NL, January 27...
...He lost to popular World War 1 hero Paul von Hindenburg...
...Hitler, in fact, never did win an election in Germany, legal or otherwise...
...Westchester, Pa...
...HowardF...
...Despite the beatings and the murders they committed—before, during and after the 1932 election in Germany—the Nazis won only 43.9 per cent of the popular vote...
...Pethngell...
...At that point, von Hindenburg offered Hitler a position in the Cabinet...
Vol. 69 • February 1986 • No. 4
