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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Russians Doing Badly Dear Sirs: I have seldom seen so much good sense so well expressed as in Stuart Chase's "Will Communism Conquer the World?" in the July issue of The...
...He states what is really a very sophisticated and reasonable position on one of the most cliche-ridden issues of our time—and says it all so deftly that it could pass for light entertainment...
...William E. Byerly Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Library Subscription Dear Sirs: I gave a file of The Progressive to the Portland city library a year or so ago...
...Further information may be obtained from Committee for Nonviolent Action, 325 Lafayette Street, New York 12, New York...
...There are always two sides to a question...
...Caplan for a definitive article but I also urge him toward forth-rightness...
...These recommendations, placed in the hands of the Soviet Peace Committee for implementation, were carried out...
...Jean Gerard, executive secretary for SANE of Southern California, Dr...
...The American press, reporting news as usual from behind the "iron curtain," missed completely the point that for the first time a free platform was provided within the walls of the Kremlin, and that delegates from the West were free to criticize Soviet policy...
...Kennedy's news conference of July 5, 1962...
...or any major drug company would go out of business or curtail research because the law reduced their profits momentarily...
...Harriet F. Rhoads Havertown, Pennsylvania Sacrificial Pigs Dear Sirs: In Marvin Caplan's August article, "The Drug Bill Debacle," he blames the emasculation of the Kefauver drug bill in part on a public that hesitates to discipline an industry which has benefited them...
...I thought it relevant to have the notes on "Congressional Hypocrisy" in the same issue as Milton Mayer's splendid article, "The Giant Economy Size...
...Certainly our present Congress is not much concerned about the three great evils in our society, Jim Crowism, Know-Noth-ingism, and militarism...
...Nearly every African nation was represented...
...delegation numbered 136...
...Despite Senator Fulbright's achievements in many facets of Congressional activity, I am not convinced that his silence in the Little Rock case, and other racial issues, was defensible...
...The leading U.S...
...This session, as last, Mr...
...Everyman III will be under the command of Dr...
...We attended the first meeting of the Preparatory Committee in Eskilstuna, Sweden, May 19 and 20...
...The reasons are those cited by Mr...
...Albert Schweitzer, Dr...
...The Reverend Homer Jack, representing fourteen U.S...
...Martin Niemoller, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lord Boyd Orr, Somerset Maugham, and Dr...
...Linus Pauling...
...Carlton Goodlett, physician and publisher of San Francisco, and myself...
...In the passage of those twenty hectic years, I have not seen any journal, whatever its ideological hue, probe this institution, however deeply it dyes the fabric of our folkways or however formidably it proscribes the formation of a healthier society...
...They had some kind soul who had given a subscription and evidently it expired...
...If it is true that Mr...
...Speeches critical of both sides in the cold war were made by Bertrand Russell, Canon L. J. Collins of St...
...It recalled Jerry Voorhis' lucid exposition of this brobdingnagian legerdemain in the pages of The Progressive twenty years ago...
...peace organizations for various reasons declined the invitation...
...Thomas Broderick Schenectady, New York...
...That is writing...
...even when I am disagreeing with him, I am grateful for his way of bringing homespun truths about flesh-and-blood people back into the discussion...
...The fact is that the Russians are doing very badly indeed, particularly in Africa...
...The blame is directly upon the Secretary...
...I was particularly annoyed by the disparaging article by W. H. Ferry in the September issue about J. Edgar Hoover who, in my opinion, is a man of great integrity and selflessness...
...The World Council, through the chairman of its presidium...
...Stan R. Pier Portland, Oregon Good Try, But No Cigar Dear Sirs: I see the great likelihood of a game—a guessing game, and a sizeable one—developing among your readership...
...I thank Mr...
...in the July issue of The Progressive...
...Paul's, London, Sydney Silverman, British M.P., and Dr...
...A boat, named Everyman III, has been purchased in London...
...A. J. Muste National Chairman Committee for Nonviolent Action New York, New York Mayer's Homespun Truths Dear Sirs: I read The Progressive primarily for Milton Mayer's occasional contributions...
...an executive order that would stop racial discrimination in Federally financed housing, the President replied, "I will announce it when we think it would be a useful and appropriate time...
...Evelyn E. Rawley Twenty-nine Palms, California Kennedy's Housing Politics Dear Sirs: At Mr...
...peace leaders who refused to participate in the Congress, was invited to present from the platform the dissenting views of the group...
...A new urgency and meaning has been given to the current project now that the Soviet government callously resumed testing with a megaton blast on the very eve of Hiroshima Day...
...I question the sincerity of your claim that The Progressive "welcomes a variety of opinions...
...All along, in line with its basic policy of opposing nuclear weapons testing and war preparations by whatever government is engaged in them, CNVA has planned a voyage of protest to Russia also...
...William Attwood American Ambassador to Guinea Conakry, Guinea Meyer Discomforting Dear Sirs: Karl Meyer's article on Senator Fulbright in the September issue is the kind that induces discomfort—the sort of discomfort one might feel if a brilliant university president turned up drunk at commencement, or an eminent theologian was discovered cavorting in a brothel...
...Freedom Dear Sirs: Reo M. Christenson's article, "The Great Bank Swindle," in your August issue, hits a very sore spot in our economy: a cancerous growth, that eventually will destroy our freedom and democracy...
...According to Senator Eastland's opposition to the bill, protection of our sick citizens and their long-suffering families would be the "iron heel of government...
...It seems to me that J.F.K...
...Kennedy was cognizant of this kind of "irritation" when he approved the Democratic platform...
...Earle Reynolds, anthropologist now residing in Hiroshima, who attracted worldwide attention when he sailed his yacht Phoenix into the Eniwetok nuclear test zone in 1958...
...I feel, at this moment, more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before—even in the midst of war...
...There must be many Americans who will recognize the unique importance of this enterprise and will wish to support it...
...In exonerating the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and blaming "minor officials in the Department," I believe the author is wrong, for as long as they are on the Department's payroll they are public servants and represent the Department...
...More than 2,100 delegates from 121 nations attended...
...Chase, plus the fact that the Africans are gradually realizing that we want for them what they want for themselves—and that the Communists don't...
...Professor J. D. Bernal of London, issued an invitation to peace leaders of the Western and non-aligned nations, to serve on the Preparatory Committee and help plan the agenda and program of the Moscow Congress...
...Before this thing gets started, and possibly grows to quite unmanageable proportions, why don't you nip it in the bud and tell your readers that Theophrastus Such is James R. (The Rule of Folly) Newman...
...It is heartening to note that Homer Jack, who refused to be regarded even as an "observer," now advises against "withdrawal" from the World Peace Council under its new policy...
...It is indeed tragic that a man can be so far-sighted and rational, and, at the same time, so shortsighted...
...They were Mrs...
...Kennedy is thinking "politically" in not signing that executive order, he should be advised that this kind of delaying action will hurt him and 'his party and deny the nation the proper implementation of his programs...
...Plenary sessions were reduced by fifty per cent and provision made for free discussion in commissions and vocational groups...
...In reference to this answer, the Chicago Daily News wire to the Los Angeles Times commented, "The political problem involved has been generally regarded as the principal reason for the President's delay in signing that order...
...when asked, "When do you plan to sign...
...The U.S...
...It will carry an international crew of fifteen men from London to Leningrad, and hopefully by canal to Moscow, to appeal to the consciences of Soviet citizens and officials to stop testing and nuclear war preparation...
...And when I say this I am merely paraphasing many of his "let's get moving" statements...
...It is impossible to measure at this point the impact that the Moscow Congress made upon the emergent and non-aligned nations, but there is every reason to believe that it was considerable...
...Three Americans who do not believe that We can expect Communists to make themselves over in our image before we cooperate With them in efforts to create a peaceful world accepted the invitation...
...peace organizations can ill afford not to recognize that something significant happened within the World Peace Council in 1962...
...One expects nothing in the realm of racial equality from Eastland, el at, but Fulbright seems to be cut from a different pattern...
...This year a marked change took place...
...Please let us have a discussion and not onesided opinions in future issues...
...She said they had quite a lot of readers, which makes me feel that it is well worth it...
...Those of us who are lucky enough to be engaged in the day-to-day contest with Soviet imperialism are often astonished at the defeatism which characterizes so many speeches and articles in the United States...
...They were invited to present their criticisms of previous congresses and recommendations for the forthcoming one...
...nuclear tests...
...R. Bruce Spackman Roseburg, Oregon Everyman to Russia Dear Sirs...
...You would think that Moscow is winning victory after victory in the so-called uncommitted areas...
...Kennedy has held off for fear of irritating Southern Democrats in Congress whose support is vital for this legislative program...
...You will then serve the public more completely...
...I can only conclude: 1) The banking brethren are bandits as respectably unscrupulous as we have allowed them to be...
...There is no "variety of opinions...
...The librarian telephoned me, asking if I wanted to "carry on...
...It is ridiculous to accept the suggestion that Eli Lilly & Co...
...The long list of sponsors included Dr...
...I believe the public is sick of being the sacrificial pigs of what we all-inclusively term "the medical profession...
...No pressure of any kind was exerted on the "critics" from the Western and non-aligned nations...
...We hope it will admit these peace missioners as it did the Peace Walkers last year...
...J. Stuart Innerst Whittier, California Brobdingnagian Legerdemain Dear Sirs: You are to be lauded for presenting the money question so vividly in the article by Reo Christenson ("The Great Bank Swindle," August issue...
...Surely, he knows that Presidents for 100 years have equivocated with this "irritation...
...And further, the quoted speech of Nebraska Republican Senator Hruska could not have made a more eloquent plea for the total socialization of the entire medical field than when he says the development of beneficial drugs must be made to pay the stockholders before they can be made available to the suffering and needy...
...The outcome of this meeting was that a wide representation of delegates was sought, so that a diversity of viewpoints would be presented...
...It remains to be seen whether the Soviet authorities will permit Everyman III to dock in Leningrad harbor...
...The Congress issued a message of a very general nature on disarmament, which included a statement opposing "all testing of nuclear bombs and similar devices...
...G. Yamada Argonia, Kansas Money vs...
...Your articles criticize unmercifully everybody and everything...
...He is your ablest writer by far...
...Brock Chisholm of Canada...
...Sam Whitman Long Beach, California Moscow Peace Conference Dear Sirs: The Moscow World Congress on General Disarmament and Peace, held within the walls of the Kremlin, July 9-14, stood in marked contrast to its predecessors...
...has been too willing to settle for less than he has to...
...In "The Giant Economy Size," Mayer is at the top of his form...
...In previous years these world gatherings, sponsored by the Communist-dominated World Council of Peace, were used primarily as a sounding board for Communist views on peace...
...Surely, Mr...
...We were given absolute freedom to offer our criticisms and recommendations...
...Scores of parliamentarians and world-renowned leaders in the various professions were present...
...After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln wrote: "As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed...
...If not, the crew of Everyman III will, nevertheless, seek non-violently to enter the harbor and speak to the Russian people...
...Louis D. Becker Milwaukee, Wisconsin Progressive One-sided Dear Sirs: After reading your magazine for several months I am curious to know just what you believe is good about this country...
...2) We merit these leeches because our ignorance or cowardice has built them into the image of towering pillars of society by which ironical prerogative they hold a big club over critics who dare to bare the ugly facts—such as former Congressman Jerry Voorhis, who was, as Christenson reiterates, voted by Washington newsmen "one of the three ablest members of the House...
...Dick Fredericksen Chicago, Illinois September Issue "Tops" Dear Sirs: The September issue of The Progressive is "tops...
...So herewith it is...
...It was public money which paid for the two-year study into the public protection against too costly and unsafe drugs, and to allow snap-decisions, greed, and political expediency to cheat us of the benefits of that expenditure constitutes malfeasance...
...This was addressed to "the governments of all the nuclear powers...
...These words of Lincoln's clearly predict the situation we are in today...
...No doubt many Progressive readers know something about the voyages of Everyman 1 and Everyman II into the Pacific this summer, the latter actually reaching the restricted area, to protest U.S...
Vol. 26 • October 1962 • No. 10
