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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM The Compelling Choice Dear Sirs: I hope every reader of The Progressive will support the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket. While both men represent something less than pure...
...The Republicans offer a platform in which they shed crocodile tears over the depressed condition of little business...
...since Stalin's death...
...However, please use my contribution for enlarging the horizons of truth rather than in making the format more fancy...
...I am enclosing the $10 and will have to owe you $5...
...It brought me up to date on many developments...
...the high spot of each month is your arrival...
...This sounds impressive, and if the dairy farmers had struck, they certainly would have obtained higher prices by that means...
...I wonder how many readers really care about arty covers and picayunish illustrations...
...They are merely mourning, it seems, the very sad fate of those little firms which so lately they ate...
...It is magnificent and should receive wide circulation...
...Catherine T. Lappa Cincinnati, Ohio I want to express my appreciation for Mr...
...As one who has several times visited the Soviet Union and is professionally concerned with its geography, may I congratulate Mr...
...What they did was to organize teams of thugs who stopped milk tank trucks after the farmers had shipped their milk to the stations...
...In a changing Russia Mr...
...The trouble with me is I don't have but $10...
...Gratitude Dear Sirs: A few weeks ago I sent $5 to help The Progressive...
...So I increase my gift a small bit...
...Yesterday the October Progressive came...
...yet those Pharisees of large promises and little deeds, the GOP, found it necessary in their platform to promise new and tougher anti-trust laws to curb business mergers "which have significant or potential monopolistic connotations...
...It is a treasure house of factual material, and, more important, an indispensable guide to an understanding of the swirling cross-currents of life and thought in that most enigmatic of nations...
...At any rate, and even in friendly hands, antitrust laws are not adequate...
...1. S. Porter Newton, Mass...
...Rubin's report on Russia in the September Progressive...
...Mrs...
...The whole country owes The Progressive, you and men like you, a debt of gratitude for helping to "keep reason free to combat error...
...Rubins fascinating report on Russia...
...This is a basic issue which seems to have been slighted by the press...
...I saw Russia again while Mr...
...I might even say the most informative...
...George Fischer Brandeis University Walthara, Mass...
...What is needed, if the GOP really wanted to do something about the problem, is reform of the corporation income tax that would give medium and small business a fair chance to compete with the tremendous power of the giants...
...This world simply cannot get on without you...
...While both men represent something less than pure progressivism, they come as close to embodying the ideas and ideals of American liberalism as any two men in public life today...
...Then I read William Benton's excellent article, and upped it to $10...
...It is one of the most informative and intelligent summaries by a visitor to that country that I have seen...
...But The Progressive should not be in the position of presenting an argument based partly on wholly false oversimplifications...
...If we compare the Democratic ticket with Nixon, rather than with Mr...
...After two or three days of this, Governor Williams finally had the state police move in to guarantee the safe use of the highways...
...It is certainly incorrect to say that the Fair Share Bargaining Association, as the insurgents were called, worked with the state CIO...
...After reading Morris H. Rubin's "The Trouble With Nixon," I decided to send another $5...
...Rubin and The Progressive on "The New Soviet Challenge" in your September issue...
...Give me my Progressive undiluted and undiverted by frills...
...Eisenhower, the choice becomes clearer and more compelling than ever...
...Henry L. Nunn La Jolla, Calif...
...Hey," I said courteously, "stop messing up my beloved Progressive...
...A Basic Issue Dear Sirs: No Independent need hesitate to vote Democratic this fall for the present pseudo-Republican Party seems to have abandoned most of the principles of true Republicanism —the concept of government of, by, and for the people proclaimed by Lincoln...
...Rubin was there, and I applaud his report as much for its contents as for the mixture of cool approach and warm feelings for the Russian human beings...
...The insurgent small farmers were demanding an increase from $4.65 to $6.50, and the creameries finally agreed to pay $5, but by that time the "strike" was mostly all broken anyway...
...He seems to cover the field very well and his balanced judgments speak fair themselves most effectively...
...Rubin's report on Russia unusually valuable...
...Arthur Harvey Wyandotte, Mich...
...Make no mistake about it, if the present trend toward economic servitude continues, political freedom cannot long survive here...
...I should be grateful if you would inform your readers that a copy of that answer is available to any subscriber to The Progressive curious to see it: one need only write at 211 East 37th Street, New York, for a free copy...
...In presenting these facts, I do not intend to approve of the milk distribution system here...
...Under the circumstances, I discussed Mr...
...Rubin's report on Russia in the September issue is alone worth more than I can afford to give...
...Rubin on the admirable way in which his report captures the feel of that country...
...Hugh S. Fulmer Syracuse, N. Y. Month's High Spot Dear Sirs: I want The Progressive to live—and far more than the enclosed check for $10 would indicate...
...It provides a modest but brilliant account of the "new" without ever losing sight of the "old...
...I want to thank you for what I feel is a great contribution to a better understanding of the Soviet Union and the people of that country...
...The postman looked a bit askance at me as he jammed my bright red copy of the September issue into the mailbox the other day...
...Lee Grant Detroit, Mich...
...Clyde Kluckhohn Harvard University Cambridge, Mass...
...Its searching observations and its painstaking, objective, un-slanted factual analysis of conditions in Russia today, and as related to the past, is a great service to all American liberals and all other Americans for that matter who want and should have reliable information of the kind furnished in your article...
...Harrison Salisbury New York Times New York, N. Y. I profited greatly from reading your September issue report on Russia, which is very rich in information and interpretation...
...I think it is extremely important for American liberals to correct and change the picture of the Soviet Union that they have been accustomed to see...
...My congratulations to Mr...
...Rubin's report on Russia In the September Issue I find it comprehensive, incisive, and, best of all, from a critic's standpoint, it appears to coincide with many of the positions at which I previously arrived through travel in Russia and reasonably exhaustive reading on the Soviets...
...Kempton's article in National Review itself...
...W. A. Hamman San Diego, Calif...
...And the worst of it is that these giants are now increasing in size at an alarming rate by mergers and by gobbling up smaller corporations...
...I wish I could contribute more than I am to The Progressive's fight for survival...
...I am more and more impressed by the need in these United States for organs of expression that give factual reports and sound criticism, both in praise and in disagreement, of prevailing stereotyped journalism and official pronouncements...
...Added Incentive Dear Sirs: Your valuable report on Russia adds incentive to me to respond to the request for extra support to keep the magazine functioning...
...It would seem that the election of Democrats in general would offer the best hope for a solution of the problem...
...If others do the same you will get through...
...Culbert Olson Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...Under the present GOP Administration we seem to have government of the people by and for a few giant corporations...
...Jessie A. Potts Syracuse, N. Y. Rubin on Russia I am delighted with Mr...
...Lucius C. Porter Beloit, Wisconsin Buckley on Kempton Dear Sirs: I found it impossible to comment on Murray Kempton's charges against National Review, as published in the July issue of The Progressive, in the space you allocate for such purposes in your People's Forum...
...If the election goes right (I mean left) I'll send you what I owe...
...Rubin's "The New Soviet Challenge...
...This September issue is stupendous...
...It is really a book, in fact much more than many "books" written about the U.S.S.R...
...More power to Madison, Wisconsin, and less to Madison Avenue...
...Rubin on the tremendous job he undertook and achieved in his report on "The New Soviet Challenge...
...I find it astounding that with all the language and other difficulties, he could get a first-hand impression of such magnitude and correctness...
...Thank you for it...
...Finally I read your editorial, "The Progressive's Choice," which also was worth another $5...
...The present tax laws actually encourage these mergers...
...However, only a minority of producers, and mostly very small ones at that, withheld their milk...
...William F. Buckley, Jr...
...Undiluted & Undiverted Dear Sirs: I believe in supporting your noble periodical and will continue to do so whenever help is needed...
...in recent years...
...C. P. Stevens Escalon, Calif...
...let me know if more is needed...
...This presentation alone is worth many times the contribution we subscribers are making to your fund for survival...
...A few local CIO leaders gave varying degrees of support to the FSBA, but this was not much of a factor in the resolution of the problem...
...The Russia of the post-20th Congress poses a much harder challenge than the Stalinist Russia which I saw in 1950...
...Since the Republicans have done very little to enforce the anti-trust laws we have, what reason is there to expect that they would do any better with a new law...
...Harold Sturgis Cambridge, Mass...
...Morris Rubin's report is the best I have seen on the U.S.S.R...
...I admire even more the wealth of information which he brought back after a short and tremendous assignment Michel Gordey France-Soir Paris, France I have read most of the recent works on the Soviet Union, but nowhere have I found so much information and integrity of interpretation as in Mr...
...It seems almost beyond belief that a majority of Americans would risk having Vice President Nixon in the White House by supporting a ticket headed by a man who has had two serious illnesses during one year...
...Norman Thomas New York, N. Y. It Is Impossible for me to find adequate words to express my appreciation of Mr...
...George E. Otto Newton, Bucks Co., Pa...
...As to Its conclusions, I could not agree with him more...
...A long life to you...
...George B. Cressey Maxwell Professor of Geography Syracuse University Syracuse, N. Y. I found Mr...
...Rubin has brought out the trends, and it is the trends that are important to us in America as we seek the maintenance of world peace...
...Editor & Publisher National Review New York, N. Y. False Simplification Dear Sirs: In your October issue, an article stales that "in Michigan, dairy farmers, working closely with the state CIO organization, struck and won higher milk prices from the processers...
...I want to congratulate Mr...
Vol. 20 • November 1956 • No. 11
