THE PEOPLE"S FORUM

...Every time the Soviets do or say anything inimical to our interests, it not only makes the front page with significant headlines, but the editorial page of almost every newspaper in the country follows up with a tirade about the danger of Soviet aggression...

...the answers were: should fight, seventy-one per cent...

...and it is not forgotten...

...I have long felt that the less official control Russia has over her satellites, and the more we court them, the better chance we have to break up the Soviet empire...

...and they labor under the misapprehension that we must choose between a frozen policy of preserving the exact status quo and a supine policy of craven submission...

...Your magazine is far better than those made available by U.S.I.S...

...Perhaps a teacher should "stimulate" rather than "transmit...

...We had failed...

...Learning is a change in thought or behavior, not the mere parroting of community prejudices...

...This is at least a questionable value judgment and is based on philosophical assumptions hardly shared by all teachers, but Judith Stiehm passes it off as "not necessarily base" and "the way things must be done...

...I think they have committed a grave error in the eyes of children learning "fair play" no matter what impression they hoped to create in the German children...

...one was even cited as being "useful in missilery...

...Justice Black in Communist Party of U.S...

...The Association was formed for the purpose of enlarging the skills of the members, and, more importantly, to bring together the lawyers who share a common belief in the absolutes of the Bill of Rights and who have devoted their lives to obeying the command of the Sixth Amendment: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury . . . and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense...

...To the question, "Do you think we should keep American forces in Berlin—along with British and French forces —even at the risk of war...

...People are encouraged to believe that a war in Central Europe could be kept limited and conventional...

...It may well be that Eichmann requires the isolation from society that other criminals often require...

...MRS...

...All mankind is on trial—some of us for having permitted Eichmann to happen while looking the other way, or refusing to protest;, others for not coming to terms with their own prejudices...

...Yet so partial and slanted was the reporting that most Americans did not realize that we had made scraps of paper of our treaties and had behaved in a way that appeared immoral and irresponsible to those outside our fog of propaganda...

...What Eichmann does not require is retribution, being used as an example, bitterness, hate...

...JOHN L. HODGE Lawrence, Kansas Northwest Disappointment Dear Sirs: The greatest problem of our Northwest is the lack of development of natural resources, and that lack hinges on cheap power in large quantities...

...Keep up the good fight for sound, sober liberalism...

...In the same paper the headlines screamed the threats of Soviet war preparation...

...they are able men dedicated to the welfare of the public, but the third appointment neutralizes the first two and, in effect, turns the control of the commission back to the Eisenhower clique of abject tools of the private power monopoly...

...This course was made possible by a gift from the Ford Foundation...

...In view of this outlook and the low Gallup Poll barometric reading presaging far-flung fire storms, it behooves us Progressive readers to transmit actively through the fog the enlightenment we receive...

...Most of our citizens, however, have no alternative but to accept gross misrepresentation of Khrushchev's statements...

...again most of us for paying for, without protest, even without moral indignation, and accepting as necessity the production of instruments of mass murder, yet condemning Eichmann and preaching the worth of the individual, without recognizing this discrepancy...

...We are faced with a serious unemployment problem and vitally need the development of our abundant natural resources...

...Pro-democracy will pay long range, higher dividends...

...Not alone is Eichmann the defendant...

...And the Russians, who suffered less but only relatively, at the hands of the Germans, are not far behind...

...If the public is to develop culturally and intellectually, this is one essential step to be taken immediately...

...I do not think the Israelis are meting out justice in the best interest of the concept of justice and the teaching of an impartial and objective method of right and wrong to our children...

...Now comes a Gallup Poll, reported in the July 30 Seattle Times...

...no opinion, fourteen per cent...

...But the Russians have just as much reason to fear our military might...

...Not to put too fine a point upon it, the Poles, the Czechs, and the Hungarians fear and hate the Germans to an extent which we cannot even begin to comprehend in this country...

...BERENICE ELLMAN COAN . 334 N. Berendo St...

...D. IVAN FRITTS Ontario, Oregon U.S...

...The killing was not confined to the Jews...

...But to the thoughtful observer such action looks like a peaceful gesture, something that should be heralded as a slight amelioration of the cold war...

...The point of Mayer's dialogue is obviously the meaning of forgiveness and love...

...Appointment to such agencies shall be made with the advice of those knowledgeable in the field, but shall not be dictated by those with vested interest in the appointment...

...Guidebook for Liberals Dear Sirs: I am interested in compiling a guidebook to the United States for liberals...

...DAN H. MCCULLOUGH Toledo, Ohio 'Last Best Hope' Dear Sirs: Thank you for the genuine public service you have performed in reprinting the dissent of Mr...

...ALICE FRANKLIN BRYANT Seattle, Washington Soviet Patent Pact Dear Sirs: On July 7 the Associated Press released the news that an American company had signed a licensing agreement for more than fifty Soviet patents for which the company will pay from fifty to one hundred million dollars a year...

...MARILYN LEVINE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Berlin Mess Dear Sirs: I am a mailman who loves to read...

...The laborer, in serving himself and the public, must organize to fight the profitmotivated employer, whereas the teacher serves the public but is, in most instances, also employed by it...

...The little beginnings are everywhere in the world, and so are the vast propaganda machines...

...Long after we today are dead and gone, what will the history books say...

...The lecture staff which was assembled included some of the outstanding trial men of the nation, as well as experts in the fields of legal medicine and allied sciences...

...In August, 1958, a Congressional committee released a RAND Corporation estimate that a 20,000 megaton attack on the United States would result in 160 million Americans dead —even if we had six hours warning...

...Gleams of enlightenment do break through our surrounding fog...

...The Jews were not the only sufferers...

...ROBERT N. PARKER Los Angeles, California Breath of Fresh Air Dear Sirs: The Progressive brings a breath of fresh air to magazine writing...

...Other "millstones" as crushing as professionalism are community censorship of the teacher's private lives, lack of variety in reading materials for the students ("tied to the textbook"), classes too large for effective teaching, and the conformity in curriculum enforced by standardized tests...

...We had substantial hope that conditions would be remedied under President Kennedy, but in his last appointment to the Federal Power Commission President Kennedy seems to have sold us down the river...

...In the dispatch released by the Associated Press, Jerome I. Feldman, president of the National Patent Development Corporation, is reported as saying that he did not know why the Soviets had released the patent information and rights, but that the one to be used in missile manufacture was something that the West had been wanting for a long time...

...Kennedy can not help but know that Laurence J. O'Connor is a former vice-president of the Goldstone Oil Corporation and was an Eisenhower appointee, in charge of oil imports, in the Interior Department...

...Please include full addresses...

...It should be front-page, headline news...

...Louis Post-Dispatch published, on July 20, a speech Khrushchev made on the Berlin situation...

...The United States is known only as an anti-Communist country...

...the replies were: yes, eighty-two per cent...

...It is time to switch over to a positive attitude, to a "pro" policy—pro-democracy...

...When I first read the article, I was impressed by the style...

...Anything "anti" is a negative attitude and the ignorance of adhering to it has cost the United States much...

...Certainly anyone familiar with his sensitivity toward human life and feeling would know that Mayer would be as disturbed as anyone at Eichmann's part in the Nazi massacre of the Jews...

...no, seven per cent...

...I approve of his stand on Eichmann and philosophically and morally believe Israel to be wrong...

...no opinion, eleven per cent...

...We, living in a sheltered, unbombed, unmassacred land since 1865, can sit back and afford the luxury of viewing this trial and condemn it, because we cannot feel what the Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Russians, and other peoples feel who were slain en masse by the German nation...

...So few of our newspapers took the trouble to mull this decision over in their small minds and weep the tears demanded by its sense of justice and decency...

...Probably nobody outside the Soviet Union knows why it released such valuable information...

...All suggestions from readers as to organizations and periodicals that should be included or excluded, local headquarters and shrines, possible categories, possible publishers, and any other information will be welcomed...

...WILLIAM L. MOORE Binghamton, New York 'Teacher's Millstones' Dear Sirs: Coercion in the name of teachers' associations and "professionalism" is but one of the "Teacher's Millstones...

...it doesn't even mean excusing or leaving alone...

...its editorials inform its readers of the possibilities of disengagement...

...His first two appointments to the FPC were in line with that commitment...

...ELLIOT L. GROSS Rochester, N.Y...

...Lower estimates are either based upon an assumption (usually unmentioned) of an unrealistically low megatonage, or else they are based solely upon a desire to deceive...

...If this world is going to escape a third world war, then we and the Soviets are going to have to live together on this old world in a spirit of mutual trust and confidence...

...There seems to me to be only one way for the teacher to receive an increase in salary without fighting against the very group he attempts to serve: the public must serve itself by desiring to increase teachers' salaries...

...JOHN ROEMER, III Westminster, Maryland Raise Teachers' Salaries Dear Sirs: While Judith Stiehm ("The Teacher's Millstone," July) has attempted to point out the differences between the professional man and the teacher, she has overlooked some basic differences between the teacher and the laborer...

...Mayer's style is always a bit abstract and inlaid with overtones and undertones and must be read carefully...

...Your June issue on Latin America is excellent, as was an earlier issue on the Soviet Union...

...When our press plays up every war-like utterance, every instance of saber-rattling by the Soviets, labels every friendly utterance as not made in good faith, and fails to give publicity to a really friendly gesture, we are not doing our share to bring about more harmonious relations between the two countries...

...Yet the early symptoms seemed minor: a small flame of anti-Semitic feeling in a few individuals, fanned by the fire of a huge propaganda machine...

...R. BHASKARAN Madras State, India Defending Criminals Dear Sirs: In 1958, Professor Fred E. Inbau and his assistant, Claude R. Sowle, of Northwestern University School of Law, conducted the first annual course for defense lawyers in crimi-nal cases...

...T o the question, "If Communist East Germany closes all roads to Berlin and does not permit planes to land in Berlin, do you think the United States and its allies should or should not try to fight their way into Berlin...

...those who fight cancer but encourage the testing of bombs...

...Alas, our policy forces satellites to become —and remain—dependent upon Russia...

...Love of an enemy does not mean condoning...

...Is a teacher merely to transmit old accepted bigotry...

...Much of the area has no coal, oil, or gas...

...Let us communicate constantly and as effectively as possible with those about us, our officials, and our press, for the sake of those most important and related values: truth and peace...

...We have reason to be fearful of the Soviet military might...

...Portland, Oregon Mankind on Trial Dear Sirs: If the Eichmann trial is to be of any value at all, and if the six million victims are not to have died in vain, we who are alive must work constantly to prevent such a breakdown of moral responsibility in the future...

...Alas, it was too meaty, and I was forced to subscribe some time ago in order to read at leisure each issue as I should...

...Our schools look like factories, and our educational system seeks to force teachers and students into a mass production mold...

...The lawyer-students and the lecture staff organized the National Association of Defense Lawyers in Criminal Cases at a meeting in Chicago...

...It is these, as Mayer wisely pointed out, that are among the components of evil whenever and wherever it exists...

...Judith Stiehm, in her July issue article, apparently approves of another millstone, which to me is the hardest burden for a teacher to bear: lack of academic freedom, which derives from the belief that "An educational objective must be approved by society...

...The United States should make us understand by her deeds that she despises both...

...At first, I thought, too, that I could make as quick work with The Progressive...

...to have succeeded would have been even worse— and, as Karl E. Meyer pointed out in the July Progressive, we had violated our "national, hemispheric, and international laws...

...Besides, in America one of our highest "agreed-upon" values is individual inquiry after truth, questioning old ways...

...Possibly nothing identical to the mass murder of the Jews is likely to recur, but does it differ from the mass murder of other human beings...

...Will your kind subscribers introduce your magazines to the libraries and colleges in India...

...I have found, too, that my half hour for lunch is generally more than sufficient to read such as Life and Time...

...Is he to laud old community ugliness as beautiful...

...Needs 'Pro' Policy Dear Sirs: As a regular reader of your magazine for the past four years, I feel compelled to write you this letter of appreciation...

...Even after the German children have questioned their parents, what will the children in Israel ask theirs...

...v. S^i.CB...

...and by other publishers...

...If a student is not made to judge for himself, hear the contrary of old platitudes, see controversy, and begin to create his own world-view from a compound of old values and new intellectual discomfort, is he really being educated...

...If Communism is tyranny for the minority of vested interests in the upper strata, despotic autocracy is tyranny for the majority of millions kept indefinitely in dire poverty throughout the ages...

...As Goebbels convinced us that the destruction of the Jews was in the German interest, so are we being convinced today that the production of nuclear warheads is being carried out in our own national interest...

...Others were for things like medical instruments, machine tools, a new method of casting iron, and diffusion welding...

...Is the price worth it...

...And if a government exists, we are worse than blind not to recognize it, whether it be the government of Cuba, China, or East Germany, North Korea, North Vietnam...

...We feel confident that no such catastrophe can ever happen again...

...To a jittery, war-weary world any softening of the cold war is news—big news, good news...

...I especially appreciate your recent realistic explanation of the Berlin mess...

...how do other Europeans feel about Germany...

...Early in 1957 Val Peterson, then Civil Defense Administrator, estimated that a surprise attack would kill fifty per cent of all Americans, regardless of whether we had bomb shelters...

...It appeared in the public press where every American citizen could read it, if he read the paper thoroughly enough...

...Let me quote something from /. F. Stone's Weekly by Lord Boothby of Great Britain and then, let us recognize that there are two sides to every question...

...those of us who have survived bombs and trenches, yet are building bombs and digging trenches again...

...Let us give it the publicity it deserves...

...There is a pressing need to increase public respect for the trial lawyer, who is the only one on the criminal side of the court who can give effect to the Bill of Rights—and it is only on the criminal side that those guarantees mean anything...

...I enjoy each issue fully...

...For example, the St...

...This astounding bit of news, the first such Soviet-American agreement in history, was tucked away in an obscure corner...

...Warsaw and Budapest were destroyed by Hitler's orders . . . In all four of the countries we visited the Germans killed and killed and killed for five interminable years...

...most of us for readily accepting propaganda without making an attempt to investigate the facts...

...As a journalist I feel that any individual who does not believe in the "last best hope" provided for in the Bill of Rights has no business sitting before a typewriter...

...Mayer was not defending Eichmann...

...Los Angeles 4, Calif...

...We know well enough that there is a real danger of Soviet aggression...

...The news of the agreemerit was not suppressed...

...If he did not know how bitterly the people of the Northwest would resent this appointment he could have easily found out by consulting either of the Oregon Senators or two of the Congressmen of this state...

...JAMES MAYFIELD Halstead, Kansas Love and Evil Dear Sirs: I don't believe that most of those who have written letters criticizing Milton Mayer's "Eichmann in Israel" really understand what he was trying to say...

...Give me personal and academic freedom and funds for a variety of materials, and I'll gladly subsist at wages below those of a factory worker...

...Help to despots by the United States has meant, indirectly, help to stave off democratic revolutions in many countries...

...All the patents are for highly developed technical devices...

...all of us who condemn the system that brought Eichmann about, yet cannot see the parallel between the type of murder which he committed, and the type of murder which we are all too willing to commit...

...Since we are beginning to think more in terms of the national public instead of the local public, it is proper for the Federal government to take care of this...

...MARGARETE HOFMANN Austin, Texas Israeli Justice Dear Sirs: I would like to say a few words about the message that I think Milton Mayer tried to convey to his readers in "Eichmann in Israel...

...However, Khrushchev's statement that 200 million might die in a war over Berlin is conservative...

...In July it reported that the peak of President Kennedy's popularity came right after the Cuban invasion...

...should not, fifteen per cent...

...Ross L. SNYDER, JR...

...Our only potential source of cheap power is in the hydroelectric possibilities of our swift running streams, and in the development of hydroelectric power we have just experienced an eight year drought under the Eisenhower Administration...

...Love of a friend, as Jesus pointed out, is a simple matter in comparison to love of an enemy...

...It does mean forgiving, helping, being aware of a common humanity, continuing to be a presence to another which he can receive if he is willing...

...During his campaign he said, "No Federal appointee to any public regulatory agency shall represent any view other than the public interest...

...With the world—and our own lives—at stake, we could do worse than see—and negotiate—all sides of the issue...