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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Administration Weakness Dear Sirs: James Reston, writing in the New York Times, has expressed exceedingly well a concern shared by many of us who supported President Kennedy...
...How much better it would be to help these communities than to furnish arms to the Brazilian armed forces...
...For those persons who seek further information may I suggest a bibliography on migrant labor which is available for ten cents from the Friends Committee on Legislation, 2160 Lake Street, San Francisco 21, California...
...None...
...I would want to know whom it will guide and for what reason...
...If Russia should then use her veto power and resume testing we would be no worse off than now, and world opinion would be on our side...
...It can be taken for granted that the Russians never will renounce control of their socialized satellite, the East German People's Democratic Republic...
...PVT...
...The Progressive, Inc., Madison 3, Wisconsin, a non-profit corporation consisting of more than 7,000 members, none of whom holds 1 per cent of the stock...
...the Communists' emphasis on molding people does not exclude leaders and people from genuinely holding certain views in common, and this certainly is the case in regard to West German militarism...
...BERTELL OLLMAN Ford Fellow St...
...Is there any basis for this fear...
...A divided Germany is a tragedy, but it appears that not only is it impossible to reunite Germany at present but that large interests in the Western nations do not even want a united Germany...
...Certainly liberals should be willing to work as hard to preserve the Bill of Rights and democracy as the hate groups are working to destroy freedom...
...This is a grave weakness that cries out for correction...
...I have long considered Mayer among the top writers in America...
...1. High art is not the product of a ". . . small, closed society in which high art is the handmaiden of a tiny elite group, superbly educated by comparison with the surrounding masses...
...1. The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, The Progressive, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin...
...I think the American people deserve more confidence...
...The proposal of J. Carlton Adair, plans and programs officer for Las Vegas Civil defense, for fighting Californians has now been repudiated by other civil defense officials in the Las Vegas area and by the governor of Nevada...
...The false impression results from your failure to include pertinent facts...
...but the number one topic of conversation and the chief concern of the East German people is their fear of war and what they call West German militarism...
...W. C. MEYER Phoenix, Arizona Appeasement Doesn't Pay Dear Sirs: I am somewhat disturbed to read in The Progressive all kinds of excuses for Nikita Khrushchev, but a rather critical tone towards the Americans and their Western allies...
...Page 7: "French President Charles de Gaulle has behaved abominably...
...Antony's College Oxford, England No Nevada Militia Dear Sirs: Your editorial comments on "A Swarm of Locusts" in the October Progressive create the impression that the state of Nevada is planning a militia to repel "invasion" by refugees if California is bombed...
...This is an organization which tries to help older persons, not necessarily retired, with their health problems...
...Of The Progressive, published monthly at Madison 3, Wisconsin, for October 1, 1961...
...2. The owner is: (if owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding one per cent or more of total amount of stock...
...If not owned by a corporation, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given...
...I am ardently in favor of improving ties between the United States and Chile and again I want to congratulate you for your splendid work in behalf of Latin American relations...
...Annual membership dues are $2 per year...
...War and West Germany are joined together in the minds of East Germans...
...I don't want America to be annihilated through non-testing after the Russians renew testing in the atmosphere...
...Examples of this kind of statement are these from the October issue: Page 3: "But we failed miserably on the second count when we proclaimed our own policy of embarking on new nuclear testing...
...For the sake of peace, it is imperative that the United Nations occupy itself with the Berlin question and appoint a commission of experts to draw, after extensive hearings, a plan for a genuine free city of Berlin with foolproof guarantees for the economic and political freedom of her inhabitants and free access from and to West Germany...
...The East European countries together lost some twenty-five million people through Nazi aggression in World War II, and now— in blatant contradiction to that part of the Potsdam Conventions they considered most important—many of the same men who inflicted this destruction have returned to positions where they can threaten new destruction...
...Kennedy to "get moving again...
...Even if he were off base in his "Eichmann in Israel" dialogue, does one mistake make a monster...
...I believe we should offer Russia solutions to the problems of nuclear tests and of Berlin, based not only on our ideas of safety, but taking also into account Russia's not entirely unjustified fears...
...In my opinion he overlooks, however, one hard fact: In the foreseeable future reunification of Germany is out of the question...
...I am going to ask each one to send in one or more trial subscriptions to their thinking friends...
...For example, it seems to me a nuclear test agreement under the supervision of a threeman directorate, as proposed by Russia, is better than no agreement at all...
...THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Administration Weakness Dear Sirs: James Reston, writing in the New York Times, has expressed exceedingly well a concern shared by many of us who supported President Kennedy and his New Frontier...
...25, 1963) Boosts Circulation Dear Sirs: I think The Progressive is the most effective liberal magazine in the country...
...Unfortunately, it is evident that Warburg's excellent proposals will be completely disregarded by the present leadership of the Western powers...
...If nothing else we should have learned that appeasement doesn't pay...
...Paul, Minnesota No Guidebook Needed Dear Sirs: Since the John Birch Society is compiling a list of those that come under their definition of a "Comsymp," I would consider it highly impractical for anyone to reply to B. E. Coan's request in a recent People's Forum letter for a list of liberal organizations with which to compile a guidebook...
...Yc/ur conclusion that civil war is likely at home in case of enemy attack is fortunately not well founded...
...DORIS BARR STANISLAWSKI Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Migrants vs...
...The great art of the West has been produced by members of an expanding and, commercially prosperous "open society" in which a market-woman's son can become a Euripides, a shoemaker's son can become a Christopher Marlowe, and a boy from the Missouri backwoods can grow up to be Mark Twain...
...Khrushchev...
...JAMES L. ZWIRNER St...
...It seems to me a number of your articles and letters to the Editor are of the appeaser type...
...Surely there are thousands of your readers who know how important it is for us to give The Progressive 100,000 new readers...
...In West Germany, irredentist organizations, with a combined membership of two and one-half million and mass meetings of as many as 300,000 people, demand the return of their former homes now in lands belonging to East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union...
...They sound very much the way some people sounded before World War II about Hitler...
...Enclosed is $10 for five more trial six months subscriptions to be sent -to the list enclosed...
...Those of us who supported the New Frontier feel we have a contribution to make...
...CLARA GREENLEAF Evanston, Illinois West German Militarism Dear Sirs: As an American who has recently returned from a six-weeks stay in Berlin with considerable contact with the people of East Berlin, allow me to share with-you my strongest single impression...
...You did not say this about Mr...
...Reston: "This is an Administration of talkers and educators who do not talk to or educate the people . . ." I cannot recall a single occasion during the recent session of Congress on which Mr...
...The problem of overproduction that plagues agriculture could be largely if not completely solved by this labor wage-rate approach...
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...Business Manager, Gordon Sinykin, Madison, Wisconsin...
...MILDRED LOHFF Notary Public, Dane County, Wis...
...I have seen altogether too many fine people left without jobs as a result of the antics of these fascistic hoodlums and I would hate to think that The Progressive had been instrumental in helping them compile a guide to more victims...
...It is understandable that Russia fears a Western-oriented Berlin in the center of a Communist-oriented territory...
...Farmers Dear Sirs: In your brief comment in September on Mexican migrant farm labor, you might have mentioned that not only does the American migrant worker compete with this type of labor, but the small farmer, who does most of his own work, also must compete...
...ROBERTO MUNOZ LABRADOR Los Andes, Chile Mayer Among The Best Dear Sirs: I was somewhat amazed at the mass of bitter attacks by your "liberal" readers on Milton Mayer for his unconventional but brilliantly incisive essay against revengepunishment...
...To fight for Berlin would mean the certain and total annihilation of the Berliners as well as a large portion of the world...
...The West German army contains forty generals who are former Nazis, and all of the 140-odd generals and admirals in the West German armed forces were high officers under Hitler...
...M. SCOTT Orange, California Latin Americans Deserving Dear Sirs: I want to congratulate you for the great work that you are doing to promote friendly relations between the United States and the peoples of Latin America...
...People who have not been schooled in the need to take antiCommunist allies wherever they can be found still regard men like Foersch, Heusinger, and Speidel as war criminals and as potentially dangerous to world peace...
...MORRIS H. RUBIN, Editor Sworn to and subscribed before me this second day of October, 1961...
...If the President thinks we should renew underground testing at this point, I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt since we have no access to all the information...
...There is considerable economic dissatisfaction in East Germany, and a genuine desire for more personal freedom...
...If no other solution seems possible, we might move all Berlin residents who so desire to a new city to be built in Western Germany— a huge undertaking, but probably less costly than the forty-seven billions we are spending annually on armament...
...But I am sure that no one who has listened regularly to it and to KPFA, Berkeley, and KPFK, Los Angeles (and, I suppose, the other Pacifica station in New York), would mention it in the same sentence or article because the Pacifica stations are much better and have no—not even carefully selected— commercials...
...Wrote Mr...
...Instead, he was immediately released and soon rejoined the Wehrmacht General Staff, which he now heads...
...We can help if we have leadership in the White House...
...We knew he was submitting some fine legislation, but we were never alerted about the Strength of the opposition or the need to communicate with our Congressmen on specific issues before they came to a vote...
...SANDY SMOLEN San Francisco, Calif...
...The solution of the Berlin crisis will be the temporary one of a German peace treaty which recognizes the sovereignty of the East German state and the present boundaries of all Germany as permanent—or war will be the alternative...
...In response to Henry Fruchter's letter in your August issue, in which he pledged a dollar for each future issue which omitted Mayer, I hereby pledge a two dollar donation for every issue of The Progressive which contains a Milton Mayer article...
...There is no work the readers of The Progressive can do that is more important than to give this great magazine an avalanche of new subscriptions...
...Associate Editors, Mary Sheridan and John McGrath, Madison, Wisconsin...
...a Soviet court sentenced him in 1950 to twenty-five years in prison for a long list of crimes which have never been fully contested...
...In Communist countries, as in capitalist countries, leaders reflect the views of their people as well as help form them...
...Over a period of years, I have given many trial subscriptions to thinking people, and it has been gratifying to learn of the good percentage who renewed...
...Space is lacking to go into the matter thoroughly, so I confine myself to two salient points...
...Foersch served five years in a Soviet prison before he was sent to West Germany where, under an agreement with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, he was to continue his sentence...
...Forces Vaihingen, Germany WFMT Not Best Dear Sirs: I do not wish to disagree with Sherwood Ross, for WFMT, Chicago, as he wrote in the October Progressive, is a very fine station...
...With the exception of the Sudetenland, the demands of the irredentists are supported by both major political parties, whose leaders frequently speak at the irredentist rallies...
...Two former Nazi generals who have leading posts in NATO, General Heusinger, current chairman of the NATO Permanent Planning Commission, and General Speidel, chief of NATO ground forces in Europe, are both liable to prosecution under Soviet law for war crimes committed during World War II on the Eastern front...
...and on an Army private's pay that's something of a sacrifice...
...Food is already being stockpiled in the Las Vegas area, and a hotel there promised to give refugees its "last piece of bread...
...They might ask those for whom they subscribe to do likewise...
...The large farmer and farm corporation, using cheap labor, can force the small farmer to sell his own labor at the same rate...
...well, is he prepared to take a Progressive-eye view of the naked greed, shameless exploitation, and sheer brutality that went into the building of Athens, Rome, Florence, London, and Concord...
...Too often, the United States has aided countries in Europe and Asia while ignoring the people in South America who really want to be your friends...
...General Foersch, the new commander-inchief of the West German armed forces, is a convicted war criminal...
...3. The known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders owning or holding one per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (if there are none, so state...
...My Commission expires Jan...
...His penetrating observations ought to be hammered into the minds of the President, policy-making officials, Senators and Representatives, and the millions of plain Americans misled by newspapers and magazines, radio and television commentators...
...Force No Solution Dear Sirs: U.S...
...The problem must be solved by methods other than force...
...The Association has its own drug service, approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and supplies members with prescription drugs at a saving of some twenty-five per cent...
...Editor, Morris H. Rubin, Madison, Wisconsin...
...2. As a product of social change, then, high art is an exceedingly admirable product of social, political, and economic conditions...
...J. A. LYNCH San Dimas, California Dear Sirs: The article in the September issue by Senator Harrison A. Williams points up well some of the long-overlooked problems of migrant agricultural labor...
...Schickel deplores greed as a factor in the history of art...
...Kennedy took his position to the people...
...I would like to see the unions take over before the small farmers are reduced to peons...
...I don't know how anyone can invest $10 more intelligently and creatively than to give five six months trial subscriptions to your outstanding magazine...
...I feel as if I discovered a gold mine and wish to share my wealth with everyone...
...Title 39, United States Code, Section 233...
...In my mind the people of South and Central America are as deserving as are those of any other part of the world...
...The efficiency margin which the large operator enjoys over the small producer has this cheaplabor factor as its principal ingredient...
...5. The average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the 12 months preceding the date shown above was 30,865...
...CHARLES L. SMITH Berkeley, California Schickel and Art Dear Sirs: Never have you published such an appalling mass of misrepresentation as Richard Schickel's article in The Progressive for October entitled "That Cultural Explosion...
...Why reserve your choicest epithets for our allies, even granting that some of the things they do are not right...
...Despite the surrounding cloud of Communist propaganda, certain facts cannot be disputed...
...JULIUS FLEISCHMANN Zurich, Switzerland Pills Without Profits Dear Sirs: Regarding the article, "The Profit in Pills," in the September Progressive, I should like to share with fellow subscribers information about the American Association of Retired Persons, Suite 419, Dupont Circle Building, Washington 6, D.C...
...ROBERT L. MONTGOMERY Reno, Nevada Warburg 'Brilliant' Dear Sirs: It was with deepest interest than I read James P. Warburg's brilliant analysis of the German situation in the September issue of The Progressive...
...There is also a hospital insurance with help for follow-up services...
...WALTER J. SCHLOSS New York, N.Y...
...also the statements in the two paragraphs show the affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bonafide owner...
...Therefore any plan for a compromise on this German problem which aims to be realistic should completely renounce a settlement of the question of German reunification...
...Let the large farms pay wages comparable to what other workers get and it will not be so easy to put out of business the man who operates on his own and his immediate family's labor...
...This is as true of the unhappy eighty per cent who form the opposition to the regime as of the twenty per cent who support it...
...Warburg...
...There would be no better or more desirable chairman for such a commission than Mr...
...The same is true foT the Western powers as far as West Germany is concerned...
...J. C. CEDERSTROM Portland, Oregon Progressive 'A Gold Mine' Dear Sirs: My thanks for presenting such a magazine as The Progressive...
...Why fight over Sudetenland...
...JAMES H. NORVELL U.S...
...and Western dependence on force is alienating much of the world and will encourage the spread of Communism rather than deter it...
...I have visited many of the 200 slum areas of Rio de Janeiro, which often have no water, sewers, or electricity, and they appear to me to be fertile fields for Communist propaganda...
...If owned by a partnership or other unincorporated firm, its name and address, as well as that of each individual member, must be given...
...HELEN S. EATON Duxbury, Massachusetts STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AS AMENDED BY THE ACTS OF MARCH 3, 1933, AND JULY 2, 1946...
...4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in cases where the stockholders or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting...
...Civil defense plans on the state and national levels provide for assistance to refugees from residents of less damaged areas...
...The East German fear of West German militarism is shared by all the East European countries, by their leaders as well as by their people, which is just what Nikita Khrushchev has told us over and over again...
...Force is disavowed, but no one believes that any of these lands can be added to West Germany without a war...
...The time has come for Mr...
...And to think that I did not know it existed a year ago...
...The West German refusal to recognize East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia is seen as further evidence of aggressive intentions...
...HUGO MARX Basel, Switzerland Dear Sirs: You must be congratulated for the publication of the brilliant and courageous article by James P. Warburg, "Opportunity in Berlin," in the September Progressive...
Vol. 25 • November 1961 • No. 11
