China Policy

Sir:

To date, there has been no indication of a [U.S.] policy even predicated on "two Chinas," let alone a policy reflecting the much advertised program of massive retaliation. The unfavorable reaction you noted in Asia to the President's mention of a "ceasefire" [Jan. 31] was really a rude awakening, not a sense of betrayal. Policy thus far has existed largely in the minds of all the people affected, in whatever form they wished to see it ...

JOSEPH PAUL MORRIS JR. Haverford, Pa.

Sir:

. . . Since Formosa and the offshore islands are essential to our defense, could we not offer the Reds Hong Kong and Singapore too? They are not essential--either to our or England's defense, and the Reds will be satisfied for the time being at least.

V. MATUZELS Greenwood Mountain, Me.

The Meaning of Treason

Sir:

It will come as something of a surprise to many people to learn via TIME [Jan. 24] that Vice President Nixon ". . . skillfully turned the attack (on the 'Nixon fund') to his and his party's advantage." It is just this type of "skill" which has made him the "Political Enemy No. 1" not of the Democrats but of the Republicans. Mr. Nixon stands unchallenged as the top-ranking fake and opportunist in contemporary American politics . . .

PHYLLIS MCPHEETERS St. Louis

Sir:

. . . This young man in a hurry stated again and again that the American people simply couldn't trust Democrats to be loyal or "alert"--and thereby by implication he labeled the whole party as a party of treason . . . Nixon is a hard, dirty infighter not overly concerned with campaign ethics . . . DAVID S. BURGESS Atlanta

Sir:

Vice President Nixon was very restrained. What . . . term . . . fits the actions of the heads (at those times) of the Democratic Party? The withholding of vital information from the commanding officers in Honolulu which resulted in the disastrous Pearl Harbor defeat . . . The refusal to let General MacArthur whip the enemy in North Korea when he had them on the run (of course, the invitation to the Communists to overrun South Korea was even worse, as it precipitated the whole inexcusable mess). If these two specific actions aren't treason, make the least of them.

FRANK G. DARLINGTON Sewickley, Pa.

The Upper Colorado (Contd.)

Sir:

It looks as if you hit the nail on the head in your Jan. 31 article on the Upper Colorado project when you said, "The people of [the Upper Colorado River Basin] want water; how they get it is less important." If it means the irrevocable destruction of good scenery, that is relatively unimportant. If it means the needless encroachment on dedicated territory, that is secondary. If it means setting a precedent for the exploitation of whatever assets any park has to offer, that is too bad, but it must be done. This whole argument hinges on the very questionable assumption that the intangible values parks have to offer must inevitably be sacrificed to tangible values like acre-feet of water, kilowatt-hours of electricity, etc. A prominent conservationist once asked why this is inevitable, and to this day no one has produced an answer.

JOSIAH BROADMOOR

Madison, Wis.

Sir:

. . . What you so flippantly refer to as "dinosaur fancying" is actually a part of a great principle. Americans will not passively allow the desecration of one of their greatest heritages. Let this generation not be condemned both by God and the generations of the next century because we proved poor stewards of this heritage of beauty; because we were tricked into such desecration as is now advocated by certain barnacle-covered relics (e.g., Interior Secretary McKay) of that bygone era of cream-skimming exploiters of our natural resources.

MONTA C. LA ZELLE

Pullman, Wash.

SIR:

REPRESENTING 350 BUSINESSMEN WITHIN THE CITY OF FARMINGTON, N. MEX., WE HEREBY EXPRESS OUR APPRECIATION FOR YOUR EXCELLENT PRESENTATION OF THE COLORADO RIVER PROJECT.

A. J. ZIMMERMAN

SECRETARY

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

FARMINGTON, N. MEX.

Sir:

. . . Echo Park Dam is not needed, bones or no bones. Hydroelectric power is . not needed . . . Atomic power is here. We need those canyons more for a refuge from atomic power than for a competitor to it.

F. L. CAMP Craig, Colo.

Beauties Betrayed

Sir:

In your Jan. 31 issue there are pictures of some movie stars attending a banquet in Rome. One is identified as "buxom Irene Papas." Naturally, I am flattered that you included my name with such beautiful women, but unfortunately I was not in Rome at that time. I have been in the U.S. since November . . . pursuing my career as a serious actress ... I did make films in Rome . . . recently completing Attila before leaving.

IRENE PAPAS New York City

P: TIME and International News Photos mixed Cinemactresses Papas and Bianca Fusari, two lookalikes; see cuts.--ED.

The Lady From Philadelphia

Sir:

Nice work on the Grace Kelly report [Jan. 31]. At last the story of a star with the courage to tell the world that it is her own business what she wears to bed . . .

PAUL DONOVAN

Montreal

Sir:

Give me Marilyn or Shelley,

I just cannot take Miss Kelly.

DENE L. LUSBY Baltimore

Sir:

MEN OF THIS UNIT TODAY ELECTED GRACE KELLY "MISS ANTIAIRCRAFT BATTERY C" WITHOUT PRESSAGENT'S HELP.

(SGT.) RON ODGERS (CPL.) MATT DILLON JR.

BATTERY C

168TH ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY BATTALION

FORT BLISS, TEXAS

Sir:

When you speak of my treating my first fans as "a hilarious joke," I'm afraid that it may convey the impression that I thought their support for me was a joke. I was delighted and touched that these girls I had never met were sincerely interested in my career and personal happiness. I was simply amazed that anybody at that time would want to start a fan club for me.

GRACE KELLY New York City

Long-Range Britannia

Sir:

Re "Flurries and Facts" in TIME, Jan. 24: the long-range Britannia [is] to be available to BOAC for transoceanic air routes in 1957. It has a maximum payload of 30,000 lbs. or will carry at least 18,000 lbs. payload over 5,000 nautical miles. We expect to see this aircraft flying the nonstop North Atlantic service against all comers.

C. B. BAILEY-WATSON

Bristol Aeroplane Co. Filton, England

Church & Birth Control

Sir:

Dean Pike's defense of birth control [Jan. 31] may be ingenious, but it is not Episcopal. The Church has always taken a somewhat uncompromising view on the matter of depriving others of life--which is the express purpose of birth control . . . Dean Pike refers to the sex act as "the sacrament of unity . . ." According to the Episcopal Church, a sacrament is "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." Grace, in a sense, is that which conforms us to God--the Creator. What grace can there be in an act from which every creative element is deliberately removed? . . .

(THE REV.) DAVID A. REID Gethsemane Episcopal Church Marion, Ind.

Sir:

If some Protestant clergymen were as zealous playing bingo as they are fostering birth control, this country would be in a much healthier moral state.

FRANK NESTOR The Bronx, N.Y.

Sir:

About Dean Pike's belief that it is the positive duty of married persons not to conceive under given circumstances: the gentry of my parish of Monte Carlo, given to old-fashioned ideas on the one hand, and to games of chance on the other, have asked me if the dean's mother knew of this duty, did she have any preconceived idea about it, or were the circumstances such as to make the dean a lucky number. I have told my innocent flock that in any case, we owe to the dean's Godfearing and benign mother the life of this apostle of the unborn babe . . .

J. FRANCIS TUCKER, Canon Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic) Monaco

Anti-Merger

Sir:

In your Jan. 31 "Time Clock," the following item appeared: "Cannery merger may be in the works between Consolidated Foods Corp. and Libby, McNeill & Libby, two of the industry's giants. Combined yearly sales of the two companies, which operate 76 major canneries turning out everything from fish to nuts: $446 million."

I would like to call your attention to a statement by Mr. Charles S. Bridges, president of our company: "My associates and I are unanimous in believing such a move could not be desirable for our company or its stockholders . . ."

F. P. SLIVON

Secretary

Libby, McNeill & Libby Chicago

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