DEAR EDITOR
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Simple Logic Professor Theodore H. Von Laue advances a...
...If the people who control thepolice can convince us to let them control our jobs, we are lost...
...Without that external security Gorbachev's controlled de-Stalinization would have been impossible...
...The other reasons, about which dozens have written much, flowed from "democratic centralism...
...I would not vote for a Marxist...
...I hope The New Leader will accept no less...
...Cambridge, Mass...
...Draper incorrectly states that, "The story begins in 1941, when the U.S...
...As Council A. Nedd's letter indicates, that kind of assistance also did not quite begin in 1941...
...But the underlying and critical factor in the development of totalitarianism is the distribution of power...
...The Financing of Medical Research, by Eli Ginzberg and Anna ?. Dutka, which provided these figures, describes the transformation as "a direct outgrowth of the nation's experience in World War II...
...Richard Pipes Baird Professor of History, Harvard University Total Control Your Special Issue, "Lenin Nyet...
...There was relatively little Federal funding for any kind of medical research, and very little of that little actually funded research into new treatments...
...Ann Arbor, Mich...
...However, that does not matter because the government was financing medical research long before that date...
...government decided, for the first time, to finance medical research...
...For example, Robert V. Daniels, in his piece entitled "Is Sovietology Dead Too...
...Washington, D.C...
...In 1898 the Typhoid Fever Board was created, laying the foundation for effective vaccine development...
...Statements as blunt as Draper's definitely require, at the least, minimal qualification, clarification and adherence to true scholarship...
...CouncilA.NeddII Intern, Historical Collections, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Roger Draper replies: My statement that the United States government began to finance medical research in 1941 does require some qualification...
...Yet Stephen Strickland, one of the few authorities on this question, says (in Politics, Science, and Dread Disease: A Short History of United States Medical Research Policy) that as late as the 1920s, Washington's policies in this area were "not too far removed from its research-support pattern and priorities in the 1880s," as described by Richard Shyrock (in American Medical Research...
...I find someone like Leszek Kolakowski appealing...
...In 1893 the Walter Reed Institute of Research was established as the Army Medical School...
...I'm not altogether sure what Draper is pointing to as that initial event...
...Of course, I am at fault for not clearly indicating what I meant, and for not qualifying it...
...As it happens, I was really thinking of support not for medical research in general but for research into new ways of treating human diseases...
...Shyrock, Strickland notes, wrote: "Federal aid was extended in this period to the studies on the health of farm animals, while almost no funds were available for direct work on the diseases of man...
...The National Museum of Health and Medicine was founded in 1862 as the Army Medical Museum mainly to study pathology...
...Then we have a company town writ large...
...The Revolution that Failed" (NL, September 9-23), presents a fine analysis of much of the history of and reasons for what has occurred in the USSR in this century...
...A clear understanding of this basic fact is necessary to inform the rest of me analysis...
...refers to the need to understand totalitarianism, ideology, bureaucratic behavior, and political patterns rooted in specific situations that arise and flourish and eventually decline and expire...
...Simple Logic Professor Theodore H. Von Laue advances a novel historical theory in "Responses to 'Lenin Nyet!'-1" (NL, November 4-18...
...Leaving aside military accomplishments, the United States Public Health Service was established in 1889 to research and find cures for public health problems...
...The American practiceofdistributingand separating power provides the single most important condition for preventing the totalitarian response to specific situations...
...On the whole, though, I think your authors neglect an essential element of the Soviet experience...
...Well, all that is true enough...
...Howard Waidrop Medical History I thoroughly enjoy reading your publication, but I must take issue with one statement made by Roger Draper in his "Writers & Writing" column devoted in part to discussing David J. Rothman's Strangers at the Bedside ("The Greatest Good," NL, August 12-26...
...Applied to Nazi Germany, this approach would mean justifying Hitler's methods since without them there would have been no de-Nazification...
...Insofar as those diseases were investigated at Washington's expense, public health approaches received most of the money...
...But the Federal government funded only about 7 per cent of a low total outlay even in 1940, as compared with two-thirds of a vastly higher level of spending in the mid-1960s...
...Stalin's methods can be justified," he writes, because he gave the Soviet Union "unprecedented external security...
...New York City Lloyd McAulay I believe that Bolshevism failed for many reasons, the first being that Lenin created a closed and dictatorial party...
...This does not mean Marxism is false, although I am 75 per cent certain that it is...
...I would, depending upon the candidate, vote for a Social Democrat...
Vol. 74 • December 1991 • No. 13
