China & Coexistence

Sir:

Your Dec. 1 cover story on Red China convinces me that cattle in the U.S. fare better than human beings in Red China.

JULIUS R. SMETONA Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Sir:

You presented a remarkably clear picture of Red Chinese economy, both fact and fiction.

MARVIN LIEBMAN Executive Vice-Chairman American-Asian Educational Exchange, Inc. New York City

Sir:

You are to be commended for your informative report. It brought back vivid memories of ten years ago when I was visiting Shanghai and forced to listen to a vehement Communist tirade against America: "You Americans are proud people, but someday you will get on your knees to us. We will be your masters, and you will be our slaves."

No morally conscious person possessing the facts regarding these tyrants (who admit they are our enemies) would knowingly strengthen their ruthless oppression by advocating official recognition.

LOUISE DAVIS San Mateo, Calif.

Sir:

Urging friendlier relations with Communist countries, as well as American recognition of Red China [Dec. 1], leaders of U.S. ecumenical Protestantism are now advocating a change in the spiritual position of our diplomacy from mutual repulsion to mutual attraction.

WILLIAM F. BURKE JR. Altamont, N.Y.

Sir:

The Roman Catholic Church has often been criticized for its interference in politics. But the recommendations by U.S. ecumenical Protestants look more like a program of any left-wing party than a sermon.

L. F. SALGADO Madrid

All Those Chaps

Sir:

All those chaps on your Nov. 24 cover represent the same middle-of-the-road policy Ike has been giving us. I suggest two men who really represent the Democratic opposition to Ike--Governor Faubus for Vice President and Hoffa, representing the big-spending, friend-to-labor wing, for President.

DAVID MORRIS Albion, Mich.

Sir:

I was sorry to see Senator Estes Kefauver left off your cover.

STANLEY PRIES Fairfield, Conn.

Sir:

I have been deeply impressed by Senator Henry M. Jackson. He is dynamic, neat and concise, appealing without any of it being mere personal charm.

VOLNEY D. HURD Paris

Sir:

Edmund Muskie of Maine?

DICK RARDIN Reno, Nev.

Sir:

A lot of people believe that Lausche has more brains, character and political know-how than those you are plugging.

JOHN M. ASHLEY San Diego

Sir:

To me, your magazine is definitely Democratic controlled. Is it possible that the Democrats are so great?

HELEN B. WINNE Orleans, Mass.

Strong New Words

Sir:

I address my remarks to the reviewer of Mr. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited [Nov. 17]: I can excuse your reviewer's strained efforts to coin such bastard neologisms as "Utopiarist." I can even overlook the posture of condescending cleverness taken toward one of the few responsible intellectuals of first magnitude left in our time of trouble. Unforgivable and despicable, however, is the discussion of "aging (64) Aldous--an intellectual well past average breeding age--proffering a prophylactic to the teeming East," [thus] exposing the reviewer's ignorance of the fact that the ghost of Malthus is indeed abroad and that the governments of overpopulated countries in the Orient, as well as such ecclesiastical convocations as the recent Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, are seeking means to avoid the overpopulation catastrophe Huxley so convincingly predicts. True, 64 is past the average breeding stage as far as biological fruits are concerned, but Brave New World Revisited evinces no sign of intellectual sterility.

In the future, if TIME does not have a protagonist worthy of Aldous Huxley, I suggest it either import one or pay genius the tribute of that silence which is preferable to the display of provincial ignorance and bad taste exhibited in the review.

(THE REV.) DAS KELLEY BARNETT Director Research Center in Christian Theology and Culture The Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest Austin, Texas

Non-Electronic Mole

Sir:

The very readable story "The Megasecret MOLE" [Nov. 24] was naturally of considerable interest to all of us at Electronic News. Your reference to the Accuracy, Inc. advertisements as "Washington-datelined stories" and "later stories" strongly implies that Electronic News reporters lent their support to this magnificent advertising spoof. All Accuracy, Inc. copy was clearly labeled "advertisement," and no mention of so-called Project MOLE was ever made in the news columns of Electronic News.

WADE FAIRCHILD Publisher Electronic News New York City

Credit for the Roller

Sir:

An article about rubber conveyer rollers for mechanical corn huskers in your Nov. 3 issue indicates that the Behlen Manufacturing Co. of Columbus, Neb. should receive full credit. These rollers, better known as a Husking Roller, were invented by Mr. A. H. Siemen, an Appleton resident. Siemen has through the years manufactured these rollers here (and still does), and it is our belief that Mr. Siemen and Appleton should be given proper credit.

RALPH C. SCHMIDT Appleton, Minn.

Who's Store?

SIR:

YOU REFER TO THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF MONACO AS "ROYAL CROUPIERS" IN YOUR DEC. 8 ISSUE. NEITHER THE PRINCE NOR THE PRINCESS HAS EVER BEEN INSIDE THE CASINO OF MONTE CARLO. I FEEL THAT THIS GRATUITOUS DISPARAGEMENT OF A HEAD OF STATE AND HIS WIFE ENJOYING A PRIVATE VISIT TO THE U.S. COULD NOT HAVE BEEN INTENTIONAL.

MARCEL PALMARO CONSUL GENERAL OF MONACO AND PERMANENT OBSERVER TO THE UNITED NATIONS NEW YORK CITY

P: No disparagement intended to the head of the gamblingest state east of Nevada.--ED.

Old & New Hands

Sir:

TIME, Dec.1, has just welcomed to this country a new batch of British correspondents. It is a gallant gesture, but it is unjust that it should, on the rebound, slap so casually the resident "old hands." As the one of these ancients singled out for occasional "capability" and "high subjectivity," may I say that this country would be lucky, in any decade, to be reported with the wide knowledge and objectivity of the Economist's correspondents, the good judgment of Bob Cooper of the London Times, the accuracy of Alex Faulkner of the Telegraph, and the brilliance of the Observer's Patrick O'Donovan. If Mr. Iddon writes often about what is "trivial and gaudy," that may be because there is a great deal in the U.S. today that is trivial and gaudy.

A true knowledge of the U.S. is the fruit of much travel, reading and reflection. It is not to be wafted by TIME'S wand onto any generation, incoming or outgoing. Skill in reporting the U.S. is available, at all times and in all generations, to him that can get it.

ALISTAIR COOKE New York City

Sir:

Reporting of "the fantasy land" is clearly not confined to British correspondents in the U.S. You publish what purports to be a transatlantic telephone conversation between myself and the Evening Standard U.S. correspondent covering the Little Rock story. No such conversation took place. I made no transatlantic calls on the Little Rock story. Your report is fantasy taken to the point of fiction.

PERCY ELLAND Editor Evening Standard London

P: TIME'S source reaffirms that one of the Standard's editors--but not Percy Elland--said in effect what TIME reported.--ED.

Man of the Year

Sir:

I nominated "Old Nik" Khrushchev in your Dec. 30, 1957 Letters column. Charles de Gaulle, I think, is now definitely the man of 1958.

DONALD DE LA POER BERESFORD Singapore

Sir:

Nelson Rockefeller--idol of the Latin American countries.

DANIEL GEDANCE San Salvador, El Salvador

Sir:

King Hussein of Jordan. The mere fact that he is alive keeps the Middle East from breaking out into war.

STEPHEN C. SPILKY Brooklyn

Sir:

Dag Hammarskjold. Because of his efforts, a Mid-East nightmare was averted.

JOSEPH J. BAEHNER Philadelphia

Sir:

John Foster Dulles. Nobody has done so much to maintain peace and contain the spread of Communism. I, for one, am thankful for both of these accomplishments.

JOHN GALBRAITH Maumee, Ohio

And Serve Instead of Turkey

Sir:

Penguins make very good eating indeed and not strictly as a last resort of hunger as you suggest in your Nov. 24 issue. During three years spent in the southern regions, I have prepared and served this dish frequently. Do not try to pluck the penguin's feathers, skin it as you would a rabbit. Cut the breast meat into slices and roll in seasoned flour. Fry in deep fat. If available, serve with red currant jelly, but any other piquant jelly will do as well.

T. G. OWEN Hong Kong

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