Man of the Half-Century?

Sir:

While reading the Man of the Half-Century nominations . . . I've noticed that no one has mentioned perhaps the most important man of this century if not of the next. I am referring, of course, to oft-forgotten Uncle Sam.

Louis A. FREIZER

Madison, Wis.

Sir:

I nominate a man . . . who would never win a popular election, but who, I am confident, has exerted more influence than any other man of our time--Sigmund Freud.

E. F. McGUIRE

Iowa City, Iowa

Sir:

Orville Wright . . .

EDWARD J. HART

Edinburgh, Scotland

Sir:

. . . Dale Carnegie . . .

WILLIAM H. STARBUCK

Culver, Ind.

Sir:

The Man of the Year, the Man of the Century is Henry A. Wallace for his work for Peace and Freedom for all mankind.

RICHARD HAM

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

. . . Bertrand Russell . . .

S. BERCOVITCH

Montreal, Canada

Sir:

. . . The Englishman and the American . . .

W. D. THOMPSON

Croydon, Surrey, England

Sir:

. . . Bernard M. Baruch.

GEORGE C. FRUMKIES

New York City

Sir:

. . . Lee De Forest. With this inventor's audion radio tube, the babble of formerly isolated voices, for good or evil . . . has been propelled to the farthest corners of the earth . . .

FRANK A. M. BRYANT

Los Angeles, Calif.

Sir:

. . . J. Robert Oppenheimer.

W. A. HECK

Abilene, Texas

Sir:

. . . Will Rogers . . .

MR. & MRS. W. C. SMITH

St. James, N.Y.

Sir:

. . . Winston Churchill.

LT. COL. FRANK C. RIDEOUT, TH.D.

Newton Center, Mass.

Sir:

... It is glibly easy to nominate Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill or Stalin. But it was Lenin who started the main current of events which in one way or another brought out the greatness in these men . . . The acknowledgement should go to the man who started it all, Lenin, damn him!

EUGENE F. CORRIGAN

Tucson, Ariz.

Good Germans?

Sir:

Very disgusting to find a German (Konrad Adenauer) on my Dec. 5 cover of TIME . . .

Please, don't tell me that there are also good Germans . . . What has mankind received from Germans up to now? War and murder! . . .

In Holland in 1918, the Dutch people fed and helped starving German children, but the same children came back in 1940 with tanks and hand grenades to kill their well-doers--and history will repeat itself . . .

A. M. DE MOL

The Hague, Holland

Sir:

... I have just returned from Germany after having served there as member of a relief team for more than two years . . .

Your article is admirable in that it has succeeded in presenting an orderly picture of a situation so complicated and hard to define. Generalizations are never in order under circumstances such as we find in the turmoil in which Germany finds itself today. I shall often refer to this issue as I am called upon to report on my work of the past two years . . .

ERNA J. FAST

Mountain Lake, Minn.

Sir:

Your Adenauers, Erhards and Schumachers, your "good" people, they are the dangerous ones; the ones who are fronting for Thor and getting another chance for the ever-resurgent militarists of Germany.

Between wars the good Germans are pushed forward, and they spout about culture, music, art, science and civilization . . . They will be liquidated when they have served the purpose of the nascent militarists. . .

MAX H. DIAMOND

Chicago, Ill.

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