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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Point of No Return Dear Sirs: Our foreign relations procedure conjures up the picture of a man who accuses a neighbor of being a danger and then steps out and takes a haymaker...
...defense against the Increased Kremlin defense activities forced by this "defense...
...In my anguished eyes, she remains a "lonely, besieged republic," too small, too vulnerable to sit idly by and wait for annihilation...
...From time to time, self laudatory comments have appeared in The Progressive, proclaiming India to be athirst for the truth, as it can only be obtained from The Progressive...
...The despoilers of Indian America who live, ever so comfortably, in glass houses shouldn't throw pebbles for they may get rocks in return...
...I just wouldn't bother if I didn't care about the Americans...
...In connection with this commemoration, 1 have been asked to assemble exhibits of various kinds that will serve to depict the man Darrow and his many-sided career, as lawyer, writer, civic leader, public official, civil libertarian, individualist, lecturer, and teacher...
...An idiot race...
...shown refusal to negotiate some of the issues in conflicts between herself and the whole world around her...
...But I happen to sympathize with Americans (to work for Americans, as a matter of fact) and to have very good friends in the States...
...A budget that will maintain the illusion of prosperity' is regarded as vital to the Grand Old Party...
...W. Va...
...Andre Faure Beaulieu Paris, France Zionist Totalitarianism Dear Sirs: Lillian Ott's letter in the January issue, "In Defense of Israel," was full of many untruths...
...A Record of Israel's Peace Offers to Aral) States...
...Suppose that the Kremlin, which has Its moments of humor, instead of retorting in kind had simply replied: "All right friends...
...Jose Gonzaga Y Goya Santiago de Cuba Leaves Us Dear Sirs: Another word concerning this fatuous statement in your recent editorial on the Middle East, "Israel threw away much of her stature as a lonely, beseiged republic...
...We're wise to that old gag...
...Just get a 'mad' statement from the Kremlin...
...Israel...
...The chancelleries of the world view the unprecedented peacetime military budget as an underwriting for "prosperity" and the saber-rattling as a whip for putting It over...
...raefi\ as characterizing the movement in Israel as "Zionist totalitarianism," which, he said, is trying to bring "the entire Jewish people under its influence by force and violence...
...Who forced the British forces to leave the Canal...
...But the handicapped ones—by language, trade, age, illness, or other circumstancei— have been and are living a hard life...
...is taking care of them...
...Please transfer the remainder of my subscription to someone in that truth-hungry sub-continent...
...Various leading Zionists have made it clear that Zionism is not to be confused with refugeeism...
...Do you honestly believe, in the face of the reality of the present situation, that an "attitude of sweetness and light" would have influence on her hostile, boldly threatening enemies...
...Michael A. Shadid, M.D Oklahoma City, Okla, Help Spanish Exiles Dear Sirs: I am writing this letter to whomsoever It may concern, i.e...
...Dulles and associates...
...Elmer Gertz Suite 1351 120 S. LaSalle St...
...She is right to raise the devil with the sanctimonious do-gooders who always advise Israel to present the other cheek...
...Perhaps your publication will get this message across...
...secured from the Consulate of Israel, proves In essence that Israel has offered to negotiate all Issues, down the line...
...I wrote Time he should have been nominated Man-of-the-Year...
...Egypt being unable to manage the Canal, Britain bought her shares and jointly with France managed the Canal without causing prejudice or injury to anybody...
...Were there no displaced Jews in Europe, and were there free opportunities for Jewish immigration in other parts of the world at this time, Zionism would still be an imperative necessity...
...Salvador de Madariaga Oxford...
...and in some cases—in Mexico, for instance—they have contributed powerfully to the culture and prosperity of their adoptive abode...
...Why did the Egyptians abandon their shares in the Suez Canal Company...
...After all, the situation is much the same, except that U.S...
...Most of the exiles have made good...
...forces are there in full strength, right in Panama territory...
...But history isn't like that...
...We realize that your 1956 economy had some low spots...
...And if the lads in the Capitol Squirrel Cage would stop whirling long enough to clean their ears and lay them dost to the ground in their home bailiwicks they would be amazed at the extent to which this opinion is concurred In by the plain voters, one-third of whose earned income is confiscated —in major part for stoking the hell fire of war fears...
...No dice this time, Mr...
...Shocked Dear Sirs: I was surprised and shocked by your editorial, "Both Your Houses", in a recent issue...
...The Spanish Civil War ended eighteen years ago...
...Alliston Cragg Charles...
...We are not presently Including her liquidation in our pious lamentations over the fate of helpless Hungary...
...You refer to her "truculence" and apparently deplore the fact that "she threw away much of her stature as a lonely, besieged republic...
...They have acquired an independent position sometimes in difficult circumstances...
...What values and satisfactions are there in being lonely...
...The Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc...
...Is it too late for honest thought and plain speaking...
...This trick is well known in Dulles diplomacy and when the President opened 1957 with warlike threats aimed at Russia in the Mid-East and had a cool reception, Mr...
...If Miss Ott were to respond by calling me anti-Semitic, she would be wrong again, I am not anti-Semitic, for I am Semitic...
...Slick Dick, the Prince of Demagogues, led the pack with screams that the Communist "blast" dramatically underscored the need for leaving "no vacuum" in the area...
...If civilization is to be saved, all our thinking must be oriented to new directions—just the opposite to the jingoism with which the President launched 1957...
...But Nasser's action set the whole affair ablaze and you will readily understand that Britain and France could not accept that without doing something about it...
...England Darrow Centenary Dear Sirs: The centenary of Clarence Darrow, the most famous of American defense attorneys, will occur April 18, 1957, but will be commemorated, in a day-long program, under the auspices of The Adult Education Council of Greater Chicago, May 1, 1957...
...Rocks in Return' Dear Sirs: I want to commend Lillian Ott on her letter in defense of Israel in the January Progressive...
...Judah L. Magness, president of the Hebrew University of Palestine, is quoted by Alfred M. Lllienthal in What Price...
...Then the United States forced the British forces to leave the Canal Zone...
...Harold M. Koenigsberg Los Angeles, Calif...
...N.Y.C...
...Two-thirds of that unimaginable $72,000,000,000 is for "defense...
...Jean B. Moreen Los Angeles, Calif...
...Well, sorry, but we are not mad...
...2. There is only one mention of the victims of the West's bombs in Port Said and that by the heroic Milton Mayer...
...For a world that retains any remnant of sanity the atomic threat leaves no choice but the way of non-violence...
...There are still between 150,000 and 200,000 exiles who will not go back...
...I would like to obtain material on such famous cases as those involving Debs, Mc-Namara, Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone, Sweatt, Scopes, Loeb and Leopold, Massit...
...Miss Ott has nothing to say about the Zionist terrorist groups that bombed government buildings and installations, nor of the outrages of the Stern Gang, climaxed by the assassination of the British minister of state for the Middle East...
...As your knowledge of history seems to be pretty short, I will answer these questions, just to refresh your memory: A Frenchman built the Canal...
...It had been agreed that after a certain number of years the Canal would become entirely Egyptian...
...For the minuscule number of Progressive readers who wonder where American generosity and sense of fair play are when the darker skinned peoples of the world are hurt, I would like to let them know there is an Emergency Committee for Relief of Egyptian War Victims at 20 West 40th Street, New York City 18...
...Are the White House and the State Department Incapable of or incompetent for negotiation on an open and rational basis...
...As one leading Zionist put it: "Zionism is not a product of the second World War, nor of the first...
...80 East 11th Street...
...Now, tell me something: how about giving back the Panama Canal to the Panamanians...
...The Committee needs your help...
...It is just possible that none of the great and mighty in the United Nations will be so tactless or impolite as to intimate that India has committed moral wrong by its forcible seizure of Kashmir, and ought to discontinue its use of force in international relations...
...That is why such opinions expressed by your magazine disappoint me terribly and make me feel that my American friends do not share our views on these important political problems...
...Who broke the contract between Egypt and France and Britain...
...Mrs...
...I am eager to secure the loan of letters, briefs, manuscript and legal material in general, books, pamphlets, circulars, and printed material generally, photographs, cartoons, drawings and other pictorial material—in short, anything that will revitalize Darrow, his personality, and his career...
...I wouldn't dare be so crude and outspoken if I didn't feel a sincere liking for the American people...
...War scare is the easy way to a vastly overstuffed budget...
...It seems inconceivable that Miss Ott could argue that Israel was born out of the horrors of Nazism, and even more Inconceivable that war is the best cure for loneliness...
...Catastrophic modem weapons have brought war to the point of no return...
...I hope you will get a little courage together to print this...
...Who managed the Canal for over half a century...
...The unprecedented peacetime military prop placed under the national economy is a false work that can bring disaster...
...Deliberate Misstatements Dear Sirs: As a reasonably long-time subscriber, I cannot easily believe the editorial policy of The Progressive condones deliberate misstatements or coloration of facts, e.g...
...Chicago 3, Ill...
...We are amused...
...I suppose The Progressive would not dare to offer just words of sympathy for a situation the hullabaloo over the Hungarians covers so nicely...
...et al...
...Throwing $45,000,000,000 into the maw of war, with 20 per cent of our citizens still living below a decent standard and schools and housing in critical shortage...
...I, for one, (a pacifist at heart) am glad...
...Dulles knew that the inevitable Kremlin reply-ln-kind could be used to spark the sad business...
...Soon as the expected reply came...
...War no longer means victory for either side but ruin for both...
...Who made the Suez Canal...
...Israel was not born out of the horrors of Nazism...
...Two-Fold Protest Dear Sirs: I want to protest two things in the January issue of The Progressive: 1. The placing of Martin Luther King's name way down your Holiday Greetings' list after entertainers and a lot of phony liberals...
...But don't send any more issues to me...
...In addition, she befouled her argument by calling the President stupid and the Secretary of State anti-Semitic...
...You perfectly well know that most of oil supplies to Europe come through the Suez Canal and you can jolly well see what a mess it is here since the Canal has been dosed...
...Yone U. Stafford W. Springfield, Mass...
...How can you possibly consider Soviet action in Hungary and the Anglo-French expedition in Egypt as equally bad...
...How much stature is there to being besieged...
...THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Point of No Return Dear Sirs: Our foreign relations procedure conjures up the picture of a man who accuses a neighbor of being a danger and then steps out and takes a haymaker swing at him, and when the neighbor naturally swings right back, claims this proves he was right and screaming for law enforcement...
...3), founded four years ago...
...All of the material will bt insured and otherwise protected while In our possession...
...That will do the trick...
...How dare you speak of Anglo-French "invasion" in Egypt when the role and obvious purpose of these two nations was to protect the Suez Canal and put an end to the Israeli-Egyptian conflict...
Vol. 21 • March 1957 • No. 3
