THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM 'Totally Unfair' Dear Sirs: In Wilbur H. Baldinger's article, "Reading from the Right," in the June issue, I note that he has listed the School of Living of Brookville, Ohio,...
...The name Mulligan was often in the public eye in the early 1880's and not long ago it caught the headlines again...
...This, I feel, is absolutely in error...
...government undertake at this time a major withdrawal from the liaison so solemnly (if passionately) entered upon a short year ago would be to propose what is obviously politically impossible...
...but, to propose that the U.S...
...The reader has to "plow through" so much brittle cynicism and—to me at least—rather crude humor, to get any informative or helpful outlook, it is just hardly worth the effort...
...Throughout the world we behold thousands of educational and research institutions for the creation and distribution of knowledge relevant to a wide array of human problems...
...Hughes found the evidence so incriminating that he recommended a court martial for Col...
...I did enjoy it, however, and felt I got information and understanding on domestic and world affairs from most of your articles with the exception of those of Milton Mayer...
...Once before we had a President wh<J& previous experience -was almost entirety military, General Grant...
...And in the case of "the Formosa Problem" there is only a little that it is politically possible for the U.S...
...His Republican Administration was quite as scandalous as the more recent Republican Administration of President Harding...
...Its publication, The Interpreter, has never attacked or taken part in any hate campaigns...
...We should cease to threaten these people with bombs and violence but instead offer them friendly assistance to attain their material independence and help raise their standard of living by supplying them with the necessary food, machines, and technical knowledge...
...Those two stages past, we should be back in the company of powerful friends and in that helpful association might thereafter journey rather more at ease toward final determination of the status of Formosa and the Pescadores...
...It would be cause for our self-congratulation, I'd feel, if we actually achieved that maximum...
...Fellowships for Peace Dear Sirs: Daily the evidence grows that ours is a sick societv "ill-suited to choose between sanity and suicide...
...firm faith in the possibility of its solution through the "utmost use of human intelligence...
...Those interested should apply for further details to the Attitude Research Laboratory, 946 Goodfellow Blvd., St...
...As the article said, however, the organization is claimed for its own "rightist" fold by Liberty 6 Property, an unabashed "nationalistic" outfit which tries to collaborate with "all (who) represent a protest of some sort to prevailing 'leftist' political and/or social trends...
...This misalliance has seriously reduced American standing in Asian eyes, and injures our relationships in the world community generally...
...Congress last year also gave the President, by a nearly unanimous joint resolution that became the law of the land, full authority to take such military measures as he might deem "required or appropriate" in defense of Formosa and the Pescadores...
...Under the leadership of Nehru of India they asserted their right to independence and their right to order their lives independent of their former colonial masters...
...This college will be characterized by a problem-centered curriculum where the emphasis is upon study and research in contrast to memorizing—the ability to think idealistically and realistically as against following instruction and prescription...
...There are to be no tuition charges...
...Louis 12, Mo...
...Consider the hard facts...
...by Peking's, we might at least accept the inevitable with good grace—for the good of our own foreign relations...
...The primary qualifications for admission are dedication to the problem of international peace...
...Otherwise Russia With her propaganda of "white supremacy'' will win Asia and Africa, which would place our country in a precarious position...
...no academic credits or degrees are contemplated...
...These "50%" deals make the five percenter influence peddling of the previous administration, by subordinates, not cabinet officials, look picayune by comparison...
...Today's Revolution Dear Sirs: The greatest revolution in the world's history is now occurring in Asia and Africa...
...This is the utmost limit that I can conceive as immediately possible...
...Fred C. White Monterey, Mass...
...As our country is the least tainted with colonialism of all the great Western powers, as we fell heir only to the Philippines, we have a great opportunity to gain the friendship of these peoples by extending to them the offer of material and technical aid...
...it is a magazine devoted to decentralized society in a monopolistic America...
...This year the space you gave his writings has seemed to me more and more an expensive outlay for a paper struggling to get along and give its readers as much informative and mature reporting of affairs as possible...
...Mayer Too Expensive Dear Sirs: After giving the matter quite a bit of thought I have finally concluded not to renew my subscription just now...
...Republican history repeats...
...With these considerations in mind, a Peace Study College is being planned for those who want to make the study of peace a full-time and possibly a lifetime job...
...Louis, Mo...
...A great conference of thirty nations representing over 1,200,000,000 people in Asia, and Africa met at Bandung, Indonesia, last year...
...Practically none of these is devoted primarily to our number one need, namely, to eliminate war and harmonize the nations...
...For generations these backward people have been shamefully exploited by the so-called Christian countries of Europe...
...In the final analysis, however, Mr...
...Frances B. Tucker Utica, N. Y. Clubb Answers Ingle Dear Sirs: I fully agree with H. Larry Ingle's suggestion, made in the June Forum with reference to my article "Dead Hand Over Asia," that negative criticism is best when accompanied by a constructive program...
...further, when the Arab-Asian bloc moves (as it surely will before long) for the replacement of Taipei's representatives in the U.N...
...We now face the moral imperative to become intelligent regarding the way out from the "hydrogen" threat...
...As these nations make plans to increase food production and trade, develop their natural resources and other efforts that will require technical skill, no nation is able to render as effective aid as our country...
...Baldinger's opinion of the organization, it seems to me, is a totally unfair appraisal of the School of Living...
...Yet a proposal is not "constructive," but only misleading and debilitating, if it far transcends the limits of the possible...
...If the United Nations as well as the United States would spend more money on helping the underprivileged peoples of the world and less on war and threats of T*9,tt world conditions would be greatly improved...
...There are to be no restrictions as to sex or race or national origin, and no sharp distinctions between faculty and student...
...Then, when exposed for improper, large-scale influence peddling, he resigned with no rebuke, but a commendation, from President Eisenhower, who had made his questionable appointment...
...Last year I renewed, feeling you needed it more than I needed the magazine, as I seemed to find myself somewhat out-of-step with the overall "tone" of the reading matter...
...This is the same Harold E. Talbott who was president of an airplane company at the time of World War I. To this company Col...
...But to do less is dangerous...
...Of course the national interest suffers accordingly...
...The conservative magazine Fortune charges that the General Services - t&ifjM lstration, the government's chief porehagu agent, is rife with "favoritism, facttakjn ism, sloppiness and waste" and that' w "GSA mess" is caused mainly by "snK appointments...
...Nor did I apply to it any personal test of political probity...
...Surely there is need for a new type of college where the most important needs are given the highest priority: a free institution for free minds, free to develop intellectual honesty and integrated intellectual purpose...
...The student is expected to widen his comprehension and deepen his insight through intense and direct attention to peace and Its most probable correlates through reading, survey, correspondence, interview, and by concentrated and cooperative thinking...
...Nothing Sinister Dear Sirs: I did not imply that the School of Living is engaged in any hate campaign or displays any bias toward a lunatic fringe...
...THE PEOPLE'S FORUM 'Totally Unfair' Dear Sirs: In Wilbur H. Baldinger's article, "Reading from the Right," in the June issue, I note that he has listed the School of Living of Brookville, Ohio, as a right wing organization...
...A limited number of fellowships of five hundred dollars each are being offered for a nine-months' period beginning September 1956...
...Of course Russia too will offer aid but she is not prepared to offer help comparable to the great technical skill and achievement the United States has to offer...
...In the Presidential election of 1884 the Mulligan letters damaged the reputation of James G. Blaine, the Republican candidate, and contributed to the election of his opponent, Grover Cleveland...
...Our support means life or death for the Formosa regime, and it appears feasible for us by exercise of available leverage on that regime and the use of Indian good offices vis-a-vis Peking to get an arrangement for the peaceful "voluntary" withdrawal of Nationalist forces from the Chinese offshore islands of Matsu and Quemoy...
...Talbott promised the Kefauver Committee, "I wouldn't allow anything like that to happen again...
...As an occasional reader of The Interpreter I have never detected any bias toward the lunatic fringe right...
...Here we have an opportunity to offer real help to these poverty-stricken people, there^ by gaining the friendship of over half the people of the world...
...Calvin H. Collander Moline, 111...
...profound respect for its size and difficulty...
...These much exploited people have-at last awakened and are demanding their independence and right to independent action...
...Thus you batted .600 on the three reviews, a far better average than any other magazine I know of, and I commend you for it...
...I realize you probably have many readers who enjoy the manner in which Mayer presents his material...
...Martha Z. Williams Harlingen, Tex...
...Allen S. Whiting East Lansing, Mich...
...government to do at this juncture...
...Nothing sinister vas attributed by me to the School of Living...
...Talbott used his cabinet position, his Pentagon office, and official Air Force stationery to solicit business for his firm...
...Unfortunately the same could not be said of Arthur Schlesinger, whose past political convictions have been so openly declared it would seem ill-advised to ask him to review any book which would permit blurred judgment to bias his review...
...Ingle's own proposals if differently formulated have some points of contact with my estimates of the practicable...
...E. A. Deeds, a former officer of the company in charge of procuring planes for the government, transmitted information which gave a decided advantage in bidding...
...This is the first time in the world's history that the colored races have asserted their international rights...
...Deeds...
...Theo...
...It was mentioned, among others, as an organization which might be encountered in American political topography and which might "seem exotic at first to the novice explorer" of right wing byways...
...Recently we were reading of the Mulligan Company, the firm of Air Force Secretary Talbott...
...F. Lentz St...
...Our present educational institutions seem little concerned with either the ends or the means for stopping our drift toward total destruction...
...Since I am limited on what I can spend in reading matter and the support of liberal magazines, I feel I want my money and time to be used in the best investments I can make...
...In service of the still dominant concept of military containment, the United States has invested a cold $2 billion in the Nationalist regime on Formosa...
...This means the end of colonialism which has helped to maintain the comparative high standard of living of Western Europe...
...President Wilson appointed Charles E. Hughes, who had been his opponent for the Presidency, to investigate...
...O. Edmund Clubb New York, N. Y. Mulligan Messes Dear Sirs: Events long past are often brought to mind by current happenings...
...Wilbur H. Baldinger Washington, D. C. Rovere, Fellman Praised Dear Sirs: Your June issue was particularly notable for its forthright book reviews by Richard H. Rovere and David Fellman, both exercising critical judgment in lieu of predetermined party-line prejudices...
...It has formally allied itself to the Nationalists in a treaty approved by the Senate last year with only six dissenting votes...
Vol. 20 • July 1956 • No. 7
