Man of the Year

Sir:

I nominate Adlai E. Stevenson for Man of the Year. His conduct and statesmanship during the Cuban crisis, as well as throughout his entire public career, have been a representation to the world of this country's integrity and firm determination in its quest for a genuine peace.

THOMAS NOONAN, '63

Chaminade College Preparatory

St. Louis

Sir:

For two years in succession my fifth-grade class selected the same Man of the Year as the one chosen by the editors of TIME. This year the 28 pupils in the class gave John F. Kennedy 15 votes, John Glenn eight and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt five.

CURN C. HARVEY

McCoy Elementary School

Aztec, N. Mex.

Sir:

The "Eurocrats," be they the political leaders of the Common Market countries or the great industrialists of these countries. K. D. SCHAEFER Johannesburg

Sir:

A man who is still defending the once highly regarded principle of self-determination--President Moise Tshombe of Katanga.

IAN W. MORRISON

Toronto

Sir:

Prime Minister Nehru has won the respect of other leaders all over the world. In this time of crisis, Nehru is proving his worth in that high position.

GARY L. GROTE

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Sir:

Why not name the Man in the Moon for Man of the Year? Who else would remain placid and "shine on" in undisturbed splendor while the great nations of the earth tossed rockets at his head ?

HELEN ROSE EIKHOUD

Hamilton, Ont.

Sir:

The doctors of Massachusetts General Hospital, who rejoined the severed arm of Everett Knowles Jr.

A. GILBERT BELLES

Lincoln, Neb.

Sir:

As in 1958, I recommend George Romney, new Governor of Michigan.

EDWARD EIKMAN

Tallahassee, Fla.

Sir:

U Thant, for his humanitarian efforts in the face of the Cuban crisis. The whole world must pay respect to his achievements.

BRENDA SHAFFER

Montreal

Sir:

Dr. John F. Enders, the man most responsible for the new measles vaccine, now doing basic research on cancer.

ANDREW A. FEENEY

South Norwalk, Conn.

Sir:

The small businessman, who gives his soul to stay against the powerful cartels that are stampeding him.

CHARLES BOJUS

Willimantic, Conn.

Sir:

I nominate Edmund G. Brown, Governor of the greatest state in the Union.

GELLA TANNENBAUM

Tucson, Ariz.

Sir:

Anastas Mikoyan, for outdoing Castro in the big bluff, bully and threat, and for providing an out for all parties in a sticky mess.

T. M. STEDMAN

Captain, U.S.A.

A.P.O., New York

Sir:

Billie Sol Estes, for revealing to the country the deplorable conditions in the Department of Agriculture.

LER.OY GOERTZ

Hillsboro, Kans.

Sir:

Jackie Kennedy.

ANN McADAMS

New York City

Sir:

Richard Burton.

KENNETH S. THORBURN

Van Nuys, Calif.

Somebody Cares

Sir:

We were appalled by a quote mistakenly attributed to a Hertz executive in the Dec. 7 article on car renting. The statement--"Businessmen on expense accounts just don't care about a bargain"--certainly was not made by I anyone at Hertz. Please, therefore, set the record straight.

M. D. KRAMER The Hertz Corp. New York City

-- Straight it is.--ED.

Nehru & Neutralism

Sir:

After having spent more than three years in India, I agree with most of your comments on Nehru [Nov. 30].

Once India is strong enough to liberate itself from Nehru and his peremptory idealism, liberating its territories from the Chinese invaders will be child's play. Had Nehru not failed as a nation builder, the Chinese would not have risked attacking India.

GEORGE A. FLORIS

London

Sir:

Your excellent article, "India's Lost Illusions," reminds me of Nehru's press conference a few years ago at the Istanbul airport.

One of my Turkish colleagues asked who would succeed Nehru when the Pandit dies. After a dead silence, the answer came from the Indian press attache: "When the sun shines, you cannot see the stars."

Unfortunately, right now the sun is covered by red clouds.

LOUIS GOLDENBERG

Istanbul

Sir:

Deep down, India and Pakistan possess an enormous reservoir of mutual good will. But they have been sorely in need of sympathetic guidance from the more sophisticated democracies of the West to resolve their unfortunate political differences and establish a great alliance. Will American leadership today finally rise to the occasion and save democracy in Asia?

ALY WASSIL

Salt Lake City

Sir:

I think the following poem will interest your readers. It is a pretty old one, but it simply and effectively sums up the temperament of the belligerently aggressive Chinese: How courteous is the sweet Chinese; He always says, "Excuse it, please." He climbs into his neighbor's garden And smiles and says, "I beg your pardon." He bows and grins a friendly grin, And calls his hungry family, in; He grins and bows a friendly bow, "So solly, this is my garden now."

R. D. BHATTACHARJI

Delhi

Sir:

You will have some satisfaction in knowing that your magazine, many a time, reaches common men beyond the educated elite in India. The lift boy in my office glanced at the cover photograph on the copy of TIME that I was reading in the elevator, and observed, "That's the shadow of a brigand falling on Nehru's face. We will remove this shadow." He took the magazine and then chanced to see the inside picture of Nehru embracing Chou Enlai, and said in horror: "Ghost of our sinful past! Bury it."

B.P. JAIN

New Delhi

Reviewing the Reviewer

Sir:

I have just returned home from a trip to Pakistan to find your Nov. 16 issue awaiting me. It contains your most friendly review of my book about Rudolf Hess, The Uninvited Envoy, for which my thanks.

I feel I must point out, however, that I do not "assert," as your reviewer claims, that England in 1941 was nearer to capitulation "than anyone now likes to admit."

This is just not so. My claim was that a negotiated peace would have "found considerable favor in many parts of the country."

"Many people . . . sensing the weight of opposition against Britain, thought privately that peace on any terms that did not offer actual humiliation was preferable to taking the brunt of the ferocious German assaults that would presumably grow worse."

To prefer peace is not capitulation. And although to my own knowledge many people did feel like this, they were not the majority; and they were not England.

Capitulation was never contemplated. To suggest that it was--and to credit me with the suggestion--is, I feel, unfair both to the living and to the dead.

JAMES LEASOR

Radlett, England

Franc Talk

Sir:

I was astonished to see your quotation from National-Zeitung's article on Trujillo's Swiss ventures [Nov. 23]. We did not say that the Trujillos brought $800 million to Switzerland but between 400 and 800 million Swiss francs, which is less than a quarter of the sum you mentioned.

WERNER MEYER

Economic Editor

National-Zeitung

Basel, Switzerland .

Candle in the Darkness

Sir:

In Adlai Stevenson's eulogy for Mrs. Roosevelt, he said: "She would rather light candles than curse the darkness," which I believe was a paraphrase of "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."

Can you tell me the original source?

BOB YOUNG

Whittier, Calif.

-- An ancient Chinese proverb, it is also the motto of the Christophers, a Catholic-sponsored organization.--ED.

The Ultimate

Sir:

The ultimate in airport design [Nov. 30] will come in a few years when a stretcher will pick us up in the airport parking lot, where we lie down holding a magnetic encoded ticket that enables the conveyor system to switch us through the checking-in procedure and onto the plane. Then we can say to the fellow on the next stretcher: "Remember the old days when we had to walk nearly half a mile?"

Meanwhile, the rest of the world laughs at our idea of vigah.

B. A. THUNMAN

Stamford, Conn.

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