The Visiting King
Sir:
If the U.S. gives one cent of economic aid to King Saud, because his profits are being cut by the Suez crisis, every American taxpayer ought to boycott the Internal Revenue Service. The injustice of this non-Christian King in all his splendor coming to this Christian country and asking us poor, hard-working American taxpayers for economic aid makes my blood boil! Let him cut down his standard of living so it matches ours.
RUTHE H. PATTISON
Manhattan, Kans.
Sir:
Thank you for your Jan. 28 cover picture of Saudi Arabia's Saud. Now all the world may look at this enemy of that great little democracy, Israel.
ALBERT M. GROSSMAN Philadelphia
Sir:
Saud's offer to sacrifice 10 million Arab lives (his own not included) to "uproot Israel" brings to mind the story about a World War I general--probably apocryphal--who told a group of officers, "I'd give 30,000 men to take that hill." From the back of the group came the comment: "Liberal s.o.b., isn't he?"
HAROLD A. LANGERMAN Philadelphia
Sir:
Certainly enjoyed reading TIME'S account of the "curiously austere" personal life of King Saud with his fleets of Cadillacs and Convairs, his 24 palaces and the 80 or 90 women to whom he devotes himself so religiously after dinner. What I'd like next is a cover story on the man who wrote this cover story, the man who characterized that life as austere. He must really be something. Gripes!
DEVALLON SCOTT Van Nuys, Calif.
Sir:
Congratulations. Having lived in Saudi Arabia under the rule of the present King, I am interested in any publication covering the subject. Few are as true as your article.
DELAS REEVES JR.
Midland, Texas
Dollars for Israel
Sir:
As a Protestant and an American citizen, may I protest against Israel's visiting Foreign Minister Golda Meir's statement "that everyone recognizes that Israel's position ... is fully justified." She has not seen everyone in the U.S. and plenty of us feel that Israel is out of bounds not only physically but spiritually. I am appalled that a visitor to our country would presume to speak for everyone in the U.S.
VIRGINIA W. MOLL
Durham, N.C.
Beardless Lady
Sir:
TIME'S Jan. 21 People section refers to Maria Callas' impersonating Egypt's Queen Hatshepsut at a charity ball; if memory serves, beloved Queen Hatshepsut [1501 B.C.], as protection against retribution for being a female monarch, was herself forced to resort to disguise. Stone images exhibited in the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art depict her wearing a beard. It would be interesting to know whether Miss Callas' impersonation was authentic to this degree. M. L. PENNEY Chicago
Sir:
Why show us Elsa Maxwell as Catherine? Correct this wrong by showing us how Callas looked as Hatshepsut.
IRENE LEMIEUX Kokomo, Ind.
P: For beardless Callas and bearded Hatshepsut, see cuts.--ED.
The President's Plan
Sir:
If the representatives of my Government fail to support the President on his Middle East policy, they will be doing far more to aid "Russianism" than a true Communist. If they insist on a watered-down, minus-this-or-that version, would they mind the U.S. Army being minus one less G.I.? I'd sure like to be home.
(Sp/3) EDWIN C. WELDON, U.S.A. Frankfurt, Germany
Sir:
The Eisenhower statement on the Middle East, too late as usual, tends toward doing just what Anglo-French leaders have advocated for years, except that the Middle East vacuum that has been created is being preserved rather than filled.
W. D. NICHOLS
London
Sir:
Noting the similarity of the Eisenhower doctrine of today to the Truman doctrine of 1947, are we projecting ourselves into another war, as we did in Korea?
E. MARVIN
Cincinnati
Sir:
Our old foreign policy was like the house policy of the gambling casino: cover all bets, wager everybody he is wrong and depend on the constant and modest profit of the house odds inherent in the dice or deck or wheel. Our new one seems to be the house manager's asking his syndicate to let the bouncer carry a pistol.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Oxford, Miss.
Sir:
It is obvious to anyone who can think straight that U.S. policy, at least since President Eisenhower took office, has been based on farsighted, ethical principles. We have high hopes that our new government will show itself to be fully awake to the present-day facts of international life and will join the U.S. in its efforts to build confidence in the integrity of the Western nations. Along this road lies our only hope of combatting Communism.
J. W. PERTWEE
Redhill, England
Sir:
Hadn't we better listen to a proven peacemaker (Eisenhower), rather than a proven failure (Acheson) in shaping our foreign policy in the Middle East? The best proof that Eisenhower's proposal accomplishes the desired ends is the anguished wail from behind the Iron Curtain.
CARROLL WILLIS
Wichita, Kans.
The Old & the New
Sir:
Accolades for your splendid story [Jan. 21 ] on magnificent Macmillan. Mac is truly the ideal democratic aristocrat.
ROUSSEAU VAN VOORHIES New Orleans
Sir:
We have done it. Anthony Eden is out by a combination of muddleheaded thinking, spouted by dithering Dulles, and a biased press.
BASIL ZIMMERMAN Masterton, N.Z.
Sir:
The world's two prize do-nothings have forced one of the world's doers to resign. Eden's resignation is due entirely to the pressure and hostility of the useless Eisenhower, who is now advocating just what Eden did, and the British-hating Dulles. Contrary to what the press would have the U.S. people believe, we in Britain hate your guts and have done so ever since your "good, clean-living American boys" swaggered into England. Our opinion of them is brief: overfed, overpaid, oversexed and over here.
BILL TUCKER London
Sir:
Eden is gone. David is vanquished at last, his Goliaths forgotten and replaced by others who call themselves friends, and who then proceed to preach him to death. Eden's world is going with him--the world in which courage and intelligence used to be of some account. These qualities are slowly being smothered by the great, grey, amorphous horror--mediocrity.
CEDRIC ROGERS
Hellertown, Pa.
Sir:
TIME establishes some sort of record for partial reporting when it pretends that Prime Minister Macmillan is trying "to turn his countrymen's gaze away from the last humiliating weeks." Actually Englishmen have every reason to be proud of the resolution with which they have tried to defend a vital interest, prevent a world war, and smash a Communist plot. If anyone has been humiliated it is the American people, and they deserve much sympathy.
ALEX FAULKNER*
New York City
Sir:
So American prestige has been low in England! If "sulky" describes the great Eisenhower, I will buy it rather than the schoolboy stubbornness of Anthony Eden, which plunges the world into chaos.
DOROTHY HATTON Toronto
Sister Confessors
Sir:
How sad it is that two pampered, spoiled, sheltered creatures contemptuously proffer advice to the lovelorn via their columns ["Sister Confessors"--Jan. 21]. How grievous that so many unhappy, disturbed people in their great distress turn to persons who scorn and despise them because the former haven't the means or knowledge of where to go for counsel and help. How tragic that so-called educated people (including this writer) smugly read these columns as sources of derisive amusement.
GRACE BIALKIN FINERMAN Chicago
Sir:
You quote Abby Van Buren's answer to the girl whose boy friend plied her with liquor. For years that story was Dorothy Dix's favorite laugh-getter. Her version of it was that a girl wrote to her saying, "I spent the weekend in the country with my boy friend. Did I do wrong?" "Probably, my dear," was the classic Dorothy Dix answer.
MAUD O'BRYAN New Orleans
Sir:
As for sister Ann's reply to the young man who asked, "How can I keep my hair?"--I heard that in the eighth grade (say 1916), when it was even then typed as an ancient teacher's joke.
ALBERT LYND New York City
*Reader Alex Faulkner, New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, is no kin to Reader-Author William Faulkner (Col. 2).
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