THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Two Fu I brig fits Dear Sirs: It seems difficult to believe that the Senator William Fulbright who wrote that brilliant analysis of American foreign policy in the September...
...The A & P Company in 1957 had sales of $4,481,852,000, and net earnings of $41,-876,000, or less than one cent profit on each dollar of sales...
...In the most recent New York case, six persons were freed from the charge of "conspiring" to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the government...
...Publicity like yours in other periodicals and newspapers has brought tens of thousands of such offers from Americans, and the handful of people who are helping me in this purely private project are overwhelmed with work...
...and finally (12), the maintenance and complete logistical support of Chiang Kai-shek as a pretender to power over the mainland of China and in his civil war with Red China...
...The American consumer is eating well, despite the "recession," so that food company stocks are holding up well...
...And there will be hundreds more that will come over a period of time unless you publish something about this in your magazine...
...This is typical corporation-hating propaganda...
...Congratulations Dear Sirs: I have been a subscriber for about 12 years, following one year when I received a gift subscription...
...Harry Plissner 345 W. 58th St...
...One Sunday afternoon visit to our home by our general practitioner...
...Daily or weekly a report would be made public listing total letters received, and a breakdown (for or against) on the leading questions of the day...
...5, 1957...
...I suggest an Office of Public Advice, located in Washington and run by the government...
...I am 73 years old, and may never live to see my son in freedom if he is required to serve out his full sentence...
...The uplift of the masses has to be done gradually...
...I have not written before to praise specific articles or special issues as so many of them have been excellent...
...10) intervention in the Chinese civil war by the Seventh Fleet, June 1950, and since...
...Hence the first steps toward preventive medicine...
...India and Communism Dear Sirs: Of late, India has been the subject of a widespread controversy—is she really the absolute neutral she professes to be, or is she just slightly veering towards Communism...
...He is lost among the multitude, his voice unheard...
...Mary E. Reid Hyattsville, Md...
...Rather they were paid from our taxes—hence no hesitation in using these services...
...and for the childlike serial concerning the merits of Milton Mayer...
...One of the Best Dear Sirs: I receive more than 200 magazines from all over the world in exchange for mine...
...Jean Steelink Tucson, Ariz...
...A woman expecting a child has the day of delivery made easier by the knowledge that within half an hour of a telephone call, an ambulance will deliver her to the hospital...
...May I join countless others in expressing my congratulations on this fine issue, on many fine issues, and countless excellent articles...
...2) food blockade, 1918-19...
...Most literate men and women would want to have their advice listed in these returns...
...I hasten to add that it has been dispatched "No Charge...
...Chicago, 111...
...policy statement on non-recognition of Communist regime in China, New York Times, August 10, 1958), the American people ought to know that the United States has also been trying to destroy the Soviet bloc since 1917, with the exception of the brief period of World War II, by: (1) A hot war, 1918-20...
...Our friendliness to all countries alike is viewed with some distrust...
...And yet on the same day that I read the article I read a news report that would indicate that he is not much better than Governor Faubus in the all-important issue of race relations here at home...
...We needed no Communist revolution to help the poorer classes reach their proper status in life...
...The Kroger chain's sales in 1957 totaled $1,674,124,000 and its net was $20,635,000...
...Let me obey and follow God so that he might better my next birth...
...Judge Pickett said in this case: "In teaching somebody must be urged to do something, not just to believe in something...
...We have too many things to do...
...This lightens the work load as well as relieves us of considerable expense for stamps and envelopes...
...All material will be returned, if so desired...
...Following the publication of your TVA issue I wrote not to you but to Senator Hill and David Lilienthal expressing my gratitude for their work in creating this national monument to hope...
...Here one could write giving opinion and advice...
...The only way it can be destroyed or prevented, or a hot war avoided, is through the defrosting of the cold war itself...
...Nowhere in the record is there any instance of his having done more than to urge people "to believe in something...
...The United States, of course, is not alone in this respect...
...One clinic examination —thorough...
...My wife and I are footing the entire expense and it is not an easy burden...
...This is the result of my actions in the past life...
...Julian Jack 11 West 69th Street New York, N. Y. View from Korea Dear Sirs: At this distance we need a magazine like The Progressive to keep us aware of the real issues at home...
...Edith Simester Methodist Mission Taejon, Korea Werner Asks for Help Dear Sirs: I am preparing an illustrated volume on the Bulgarian-French painter Jules Pascin (1885-1930), and would appreciate receiving photographs of his paintings, drawings, and prints in public or private collections, as well as biographical information and snapshots of the artist himself...
...Both are greatly mistaken, however, if they believe that an informed world opinion will acquit them of the "crime" of subversion of which they accuse others...
...C. H. Gedge Supervisor of Repair Parts Sears, Roebuck and Co...
...After all this life is not an end by itself...
...James Landen St...
...As long as the progress that we have achieved in the first five years is continued and as long as the needs and wants of the people are attended to, there is no need for any country to fear that we will lose our sense of balance and our precious heritage of peace and non-violence...
...Unfortunately, you failed to include this information in your story, for the requests from readers of The Progressive arrive without the "self-addressed, stamped envelopes" we require...
...Mayer: Your article in the June issue of The Progressive magazine has just come to my attention, and I must confess I read it with mixed emotions...
...It is to this defrosting process that the attention of "United States embassies around the world" and the leaders everywhere should be directed—not to the further increase of tensions...
...This regular report would become one of the hottest news events of the week, and would be headlined in all newspapers...
...Implementing this idea will not only kindle this interest, but also grant it outlet...
...The Parole Board will act on his application in October...
...The lower classes had no education and they, till now, had not realized the state of their poverty...
...To buy National Dairy stock today you pay about $44 a share and you'll get dividends of $1.80 a year...
...Today a man has no such forum...
...Subversion has now become a perfectly normal and even conventional weapon of a cold war...
...2041 Blower Door (Old Style) for 143.421 Franklin Heater has this day been dispatched to you at Carmel, Calif., via parcel post...
...While I have not uncovered all of the unfortunate details, we have been able to find the first order which was received at the factory on Sept...
...In England we received no bills for these services...
...No rush...
...Yet he has been compelled to serve almost three years and faces five years of painful separation from family and loved ones...
...How many of our citizens stand, sit, or lie in the corridors of our hospitals waiting for bed and treatment...
...New York 19, N. Y. Silly Waste Dear Sirs: I think The Progressive wouldn't find it so difficult to make ends meet if it didn't waste several pages every month on articles which I am sure most of your readers consider "silly...
...During a recent year's stay in England, my husband and I made the following uses of the health plan: three visits to our local general practitioner—service excellent...
...4) trade restrictions—complete, as far as Red China is concerned...
...The Supreme Court never reviewed the evidence in his case, and the lower courts were not guided by the same rulings as today...
...But neither is it fair to violate human laws and sentiments and snatch away what belongs to another man...
...The difficult thing to understand is how the Secretary of State—and, especially, the President of the United States—would openly charge an opponent with, and threaten war over, an act committed almost daily by our own government...
...3) non-recognition, 1917-34...
...Unique Service Dear Sirs: I want to express my deepest appreciation to Selig Greenberg and The Progressive for "Are Our Doctors Qualified...
...9) non-recognition of China...
...We have processed about one hundred of the requests but we cannot continue to do so, and several hundreds of the letters from your readers, as of this date, will have their letters unanswered...
...Clarence Speyer Wheatfield, Ind...
...The Progressive performs a unique service in presenting this material to the American public—the kind of service, incidentally, we have grown to count on from you...
...He thinks, "This is my fate...
...2) trade, travel, and cultural exchanges without discriminatory provisions...
...8) a vast military alliance system (42 allies...
...in the September issue...
...Alice Leonard Columbus, Ohio Justice for Green Dear Sirs: I am a great-grandmother who won't give up her faith that justice can be won...
...It is only now that we have awakened...
...I was especially pleased with the editorial and articles dealing with the Middle East crisis and the two revealing articles on American medicine...
...India's has always been a predominantly agricultural economy and as such she got left behind in the present industrial scheme of things...
...It is the means of doing a thing which is important...
...Has he also forgotten the many additional millions available to the Departments of State, Defense, Army, Navy, and Air Force for subversion, or indirect aggression, under the euphemistic term, "intelligence...
...If Russia had jet bases in Canada, Cuba, and Mexico—would these same politicians call them defensive...
...6) exclusion from the Near East...
...Hugh B. Hester Brigadier General, U.S...
...He picks out the National Dairy Products Company, which he charges has in the past 12 years increased its dividend rate nine separate times, but he doesn't specify just how much those increases totaled...
...September Excellent Dear Sirs: The September issue of The Progressive was excellent in every way...
...As for the hospital, I had to wait three months for bed space...
...Profits in Food Dear Sirs: Charles C. Lockwood in your August issue ("Milking the Consumer," in the People's Forum) says many of the giant food corporations operate on the principle of never giving the customer a break, and are showing fantastic profits...
...My son, Gilbert Green, was convicted on the same charge and on similar evidence...
...Stanley Erle Brown Oakland, Calif...
...Consider the Kennedy-Ives Bill...
...The Safeway stores, the nation's second largest chain, had sales of $2,117,314,000, and netted $30,907,000, or less than one and a half cents profit on each sales dollar...
...It would almost seem that there must be two Fulbrights...
...It might be logical to assume that this same error was picked up on subsequent orders...
...As to the State Department's further statement that "counter-measures against Chinese Communist subversion and political infiltration are . . . necessary," the observation should be: "You, too, sir...
...Some way must be found to generate more interest in government, or our democracy will soon live only in history...
...Public Advice Dear Sirs: The Old New England Town Meeting was perhaps democracy in its purest form, where anyone who wished could speak up and be heard...
...It is not for a Hindu to complain...
...New York, N. Y. 'Defense' Perverted Dear Sirs: It seems to me the word "defense" has been much perverted by our politicians...
...Alfred Werner Hotel Bryant 230 West 54th St...
...11) denial of China's legitimate seat in the Security Council, and refusal of her admission to the General Assembly o? the United Nations...
...Padma (Mrs...
...I hope that you are known to the postmaster in Carmel, so that this handle will reach you...
...Has Secretary of State Dulles—under whose direction these instructions were issued—forgotten "Radio Free Europe" and "Radio Free Asia," or Guatemala, 1954, and the hundreds of millions of dollars expended annually under the direction of the chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, Allen Dulles...
...THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Two Fu I brig fits Dear Sirs: It seems difficult to believe that the Senator William Fulbright who wrote that brilliant analysis of American foreign policy in the September issue of The Progressive is the same Senator William Fulbright who has ranged himself on the side of the segregationists in his home state of Arkansas...
...How can we reconcile the two entirely different and opposed principles, Western Democracy and Russian Communism...
...Millions were in favor of that measure, but they had no place to voice their opinion...
...No emergency existed...
...It is my hope that I will continue to be able to read The Progressive for many decades to come...
...Paul, Minn...
...We do not solicit any funds but in all our publicity we stress that a "self-addressed, stamped envelope be enclosed" by anyone who desires to participate in this work...
...I am glad that in his lifetime I expressed my sentiments to Senator Norris...
...Sears Embarrassed [The following letter was received by Milton Mayer in response to his June issue article, "personal and confidential," chronicling his long and fruitless attempt to buy a part for his franklin stove from the Mail Order Division of Sears, Roebuck and Co.] Dear Mr...
...Many of the top columnists such as Walter Lippmann, Marquis Childs, and Dorothy Thompson have repeatedly pointed out some of these facts...
...What a laughable question to a true Hindu...
...We have no use for any party in India that is composed of Indians but owes allegiance to a foreign power and disrupts the unity of our own people...
...Lock-wood implies, but rather because at a time when heavy industry is in a slump, "consumer" stocks, such as those of food companies, are more stable...
...Suffice it to say that we are very embarrassed that this situation occurred and certainly hope that you will not encounter similar difficulties in the future...
...What a wonderful thought-provoker he is...
...First, let me tell you that one each, No...
...Apparently somewhere along the line the numerals were switched, because the order called for a handle for a 143.321 Heater...
...Mrs...
...My son has applied for parole, having served the required one-third of his sentence...
...Most readers have sufficient mathematical agility to figure what these services would cost in the United States...
...Army, Ret'd Washington, D. C. Magazines Abroad Dear Sirs: Through hundreds of letters which I have received and more pouring in every day I have become aware that you published an item having to do with a project of arranging for Americans to send their "used" magazines to persons overseas who desire these contacts...
...He accepts his lot in spite of privations...
...The first and most important step immediately possible in this process would seem to be the normalization of relations between the Eastern and Western blocs...
...If you sell more food, at inflated dollars, you'll take in more dollars and if you profit you'll pay out more dollars too, in dividends...
...They are good magazines, but yours is one of the best, and I wish to give you my warm personal praise for the fine work you are doing...
...Why should not India, because of her poverty, turn Communist...
...The people do not want violence...
...Rush...
...We have not as yet grown immune to violence as the other war-scarred countries...
...G. Oderban Rizzo Editor and Publisher II Mondo Libero Dearborn, Mich...
...John Lofton's analysis of David Lawrence's role in the struggle over segregation was also a fine contribution, as was Dorothy De-Zouche's "Let Teachers Teach...
...All of her "allies" have joined her and her "opponents" in the cold war game of subversion...
...The country is still very poor, with a great margin of difference between the upper and the lower classes...
...No publication in the country that I know about has dared present these facts despite the fact that they were gathered by two so reputable and dependable organizations as the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of North Carolina...
...If the handle in question does not reach you within a reasonable period of time, let me know your home address and I will see that one reaches you...
...Surely the cause of justice and humanity would be served if Gilbert Green were set free...
...To make it even more attractive, full franking privileges would be granted all writing the Office of Public Advice...
...I have rarely read so keen and courageous an analysis of our foreign policy as his "The Fatal Obsession in U. S. Foreign Policy" which you published last month...
...It gives no weight to the growth of National, the steady growth of its food sales, the continued inflation of the food dollar through artificial governmental support of prices, and other factors...
...Brokers are not recommending purchases of .food company stocks because they are making unconscionable profits, as Mr...
...This was less than one and a quarter cents per dollar of sales...
...Thomas L. Martin Evanston, 111...
...How many of our emergencies are turned away from hospitals due to insufficient funds...
...Elizabeth Green Chicago, 111...
...Perhaps it always has been...
...Admiration for your statement of the case, and chagrin at our mishandling of the case...
...This must include as a minimum, in order to be effective: (1) the official recognition of every nation-state by all others...
...What a strange thought process...
...This is about three and a third cents on each dollar of sales...
...Almost every month there is at least one article that seems especially important to me, and almost all are of great interest...
...Unfortunately, they are less likely to express their feelings than are the pro-Mayer group...
...Eleven days in hospital—care and service excellent...
...Hinduism is more than 6,000 years old and its philosophy is suited even to the ever-changing conditions of the present...
...Emergency evident...
...We are greatly indebted to you for your desire to help further this project but we are overwhelmed, and any work done to process Progressive letters prevents us from working on others where we accomplish three times as much in the time it takes to get out one of the letters from your readers...
...The theory of reincarnation in Hinduism has been responsible for this...
...Keep up the fine work...
...In the first six months of 1958, National Dairy's sales were $722,400,000 and its net profit was $22,490,000...
...It is not fair that one human being should be in absolute poverty whilst another has an over-abundance of wealth...
...5) liberation of East European "satellites...
...While my son, Gilbert Green, serves his prison term in Leavenworth, every new court decision reaffirms his innocence...
...Yet this has been the reason for the faith and hope with which the Hindu accepts his far from comfortable life—the faith that the Western people find so difficult to understand...
...T. T.) Narasimhan Madras, India Health Service Praised Dear Sirs: As a recipient of medical services under the National Health Service program of Britain, I wish to express my praise and thanks for this program...
...7) encirclement with a thousand military bases—some within ten minutes by air...
...And with no means to voice his opinion, he soon has none...
...and (3) the seating of Red China in both the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations...
...It has become an almost universal practice...
...Because his trial is so long past, there is no legal remedy left open for him except of executive action, through the President of the Federal Parole Board...
...J. B. MlLGRAM Brooklyn, N. Y. Steps to Peace Dear Sirs: In connection with the Department of State's charge—often made before—that "the Soviet bloc, of which Communist China is an important part, is engaged in a long-range struggle to destroy the way of life of the free countries of the world . . ." (See U.S...
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