The Poujade Story Sir:

Congratulations on your wonderful Pierre

Poujade story [March 19]. It is a brilliant

piece of writing that reads like a novel.

ELIZABETH MACARTHUR Passaic, NJ.

Reading your story today, a quarter century after studying A Tale of Two Cities, I ,seemed to see Madame La Farge--knitting. MIRIAM GRAY

Normal, Ill.

By giving Poujade the cover story, TIME is helping an illiterate opportunist to gain more strength and popularity and, therefore, more seats at a future election in France. If you have run out of cover people, why not switch to animals? I'd take Nashua instead of Poujade any time.

A. BYCK

Montreal r:

Reading about Pierre Poujade, one can understand how frighteningly amusing the rest of the world found the muscling antics of the Great McCarthio and his Yes Men jesters. I wonder, though, whether France is healthy enough to shake Poujade out of her hair as we seem almost to have accomplished with Tail Gunner Joe.

Y. O. UTTERBACH Chicago

Sir:

It is obvious that now even Frenchmen so hate what they see as France that they suicidally attack themselves. How else can Poujadism be explained?

For years I have sung the praises of things French--wines, cheeses, poetry, music and drama--in my classes. It is with the greatest sadness that I now face the fact that I must sing the dirge to things French.

It seems to me most grievous that at this time we can do little else but wish the Poujadists successes in their horrible campaign. As Goya said, "The dream of reason produces monsters." So has it been for France, the homeland of reason.

DAVID A. WILKIE New Orleans

Sir:

Would that we had a man of his drive to protest our own gross and grievous tax injustices. No less than in France, we need a leader to spearhead concerted revolt against the onerous, noxious, outrageous tax burden imposed on us.

IRWIN SPEAR Boston

Dark Image

Sir:

TIME'S portrait [March 26] of Senator Eastland as the new reactionary--respectable, resourceful, rhetorical--is a repelling one. With this man heading the Senate Judiciary Committee, forming a bottleneck to all the desperately needed legislation on civil rights and immigration, we will never regain our position of trust and leadership before the free world, particularly before the Asian nations.

JAMES WADE

Chicago

Sir:

I wonder how Senator Eastland would explain his concept of human liberty to the millions of Asiatics looking for a political anchor. In these brink-of-war days we can't afford this kind of folly.

GILBERT ERSKINE Louisville, Ky.

Sir:

The South's irrational and intransigent attitude can be traced to its own feelings of persecution vis-`a-vis Washington. Men like Eastland owe their political lives to the hatreds this situation has evoked. The best answer is to oppose the dark (Eastland) image of the South with a new one. Estes Kefauver is the logical choice. His election would isolate the extremists by depriving them of mass support in much the same way as Eisenhower's presence in the White House finished McCarthy.

W. P. GILLOTTI New York City

Sir:

Of Senator Eastland you say: "He does not face the question of how a constitutional system of government can operate unless some judicial process can determine in disputed cases what the Constitution means." What you will not face is the fact that the court had on many prior occasions already determined what the Constitution means on this point.

BEN L. UPTON

New Orleans

Storm Over Cyprus

Sir:

In order to justify the repressive measures in Cyprus and the deportation of Archbishop Makarios (TIME, March 19), the present British government has made allegations grimly reminiscent of those made in recent times for the purpose of perpetuating colonialism elsewhere. It seems clear that the Tories have achieved their objective--no settlement of the dispute and, therefore, no self-determination for the Cypriots--because, having banished Makarios, there is no one else with whom they can negotiate. The British now hope that new leaders will arise, meaning, of course, leaders who would be subservient to them while pretending to serve the people of Cyprus. The feverish attempts to create such leaders in my own country at the present time will serve to document the preceding statement.

CHARLES R. JACOB JR. Georgetown, British Guiana

Sir:

The deportation of Archbishop Makarios and other Cypriot leaders by the British reminds one of Communist techniques in satellite countries. The extremes to which the British can go to hold on to the name of Empire is nauseating. In some cases, where the native people are really unable to govern themselves, colonialism could be excused for a time. But the Greeks can boast of the first and longest civilization in Europe.

HEINO KRIGOLSON Vancouver, B.C.

Sir:

True, the banishment of His Eminence, Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, was "one of the most muddleheaded decisions of Prime Minister Eden's indecisive tenure"--but perhaps now the free world will realize and sympathize with the almost hopeless situation of this poor, small nation in its fight to be free of British domination.

CHRISTINE LAVRIOTIS Milwaukee

Sir:

You characterize Eden's deportation of Archbishop Makarios as "muddleheaded," but what was the alternative after Britain's offer of self-government under British security had been rejected? The "self-determination" of the Cypriots strikes a responsive chord in American hearts, but have the consequences of the "down-with-Britain" cry been fully considered? What would have happened to Cyprus in World War II had it been Greek? Even more, what will be its fate in any future Mediterranean struggle without the presence of Her British Majesty's troops?

MRS. ERNEST SCHWARZ Kansas City, Mo.

Lay of the Last Ministry

Sir:

Congratulations on your clear, penetrating analysis of Russia's new line [TIME, March 5].

HERBERT E. BROWN New Canaan, Conn.

Sir:

Khrushchev, Mikoyan, et al. have confirmed what I have long felt obvious, namely, that Stalin was nothing but a deviationist, counter-revolutionary Trotskyite.

HASKELL ROSENBERG Rochester

Sir:

So now the Stalinist

Like the Trotskyist

Is a pariah

Like Beria

There are only Khrushcheviks

And Bulganiniks

Zhukovists

And Malenkovists

It ain't easy.

BEN MAXSON

Los Angeles

Olivier's Richard

Sir:

I think TIME'S [March 12] observation that Olivier-Richard's cold-bloodedness fails to win him sympathy doth miss the mark. Richard's ingratiating trait is his impish wickedness, his gleeful lack of conscience; he acts less with malice than with roguish dedication, so that his audience, in delighted horror, wonders just what the old boy will contrive next.

MURIEL SCHOSTAK Ann Arbor, Mich.

Sir: I question the statement that the features of Olivier's Richard III were modeled "on the features of Broadway's Jed Harris and France's Francis I." Methinks I espied Sid Caesar peeking under the ebony locks.

JACK B. COHEN Omaha

Sir: It would be interesting to know what Jed Harris and Francis I look like to have in spired Sir Laurence thusly.

JUNE BANDHAUER Omaha

P: For Sir Laurence's models at their most darkling, see cuts. -- ED.

Billy for Babylon (Contd.)

Sir: The Religion column in your March 12 issue attributes to the editors of Christianity and Crisis quotations on Billy Graham's projected meetings in New York City. But the notes in Christianity and Crisis represent the views only of the editor whose initials are appended, in this instance "R. N." I Reinhold Niebuhr]. As a fellow editor, I would take a rather different position.

I would stand firmly on the apostolic recognition that there are ''varieties of gifts but the same Spirit and varieties of service but the same Lord." There are multitudes whom Mr. Graham may reach who are not now and never will be touched by a more sophisticated interpretation of the Gospel . . . There is a touch of presumption, if not worse, in most of the polemic against Mr. Graham --the assumption that the critics are able effectively to reach this modern Babylon, an as sumption flatly contradicted by the facts . . .

HENRY P. VAN DUSEN Union Theological Seminary New York City

Caroline's Fate

Sir: A dunce cap for the phrase-bungling reviewer of The Secrets of Caroline Cherie [March 19] ! He writes, "... where the movie heroine was chained fully clothed to the tracks to be torn asunder by the Santa Fe express, Caroline is generally denuded by persuers intent on joining her in union specific." Why didn't this wastrel substitute for "Santa Fe express" "Union Pacific"?

W. A. P. JOHN Birmingham, Mich.

P: TIME'S reviewer has an Erie sense of humor. -- ED.

The Oregon Tale

Sir: I enjoyed your March 19 article referring to Doug McKay's entrance into the Oregon Republican primary for United States Sena tor. Unfortunately, you failed to mention that McKay is not the only candidate in the field. Former State Senator Phil Hitchcock has powerful popular support in Oregon, and both TIME and Doug may be surprised when the primary votes are counted. A growing number of Oregon Republicans feel that Phil Hitchcock is the man that can beat Wayne Morse, and of course that is our primary objective.

JOHN F. CRAMER JR.

Portland, Ore.

Sir: TIME pretends that the Morse-McKay race for Senator from Oregon "was a natural," and accepts without question McKay's claim that he can "think of no more appealing task in public life" than to run.

Actually, after denying several times that he planned to contest Morse's seat, McKay was drafted by Leonard Hall and Sherman Adams. It is true that McKay, whose sudden change of front surprised and dismayed local Republicans, has denied that Eisen hower ever asked him to run, but if Ike had wished him to remain in the Cabinet, McKay would without doubt have been happy to stay there.

R. IVAN LOVELL Salem, Ore.

Critic on a Carousel

Sir: Everyone I've talked to has raved about the movie of Carousel, and that's how I feel about it too, having already seen it three times. But your tired old movie critic pans [TIME, March 19] that beautiful story, and that proves he should be put out to pasture, but fast. He really is too tired any more to know a good movie when he sees one.

HELEN PRICE New York City

Sir: If the review of Carousel implies that Agnes de Mille did the dances for the film, this is dancing" an error refers of to the fact. If original "the tired stage style of version choreographed by Miss de Mille, then the reviewer is guilty of a gross error in artistic judgment. In either case, an apology is due a finely sensitive and inventive choreographer who took what was dross in stage dancing and turned it to gold. Naturally, imitators turn it back to dross.

GEORGE BEISWANGER Milledgeville, Ga.

P: TIME meant that the style of dancing developed by Choreographer de Mille has often been fatigued by less talented imitators. -- ED.

In Words of One Syllable

Sir: I am a high school student, and receive fairly good marks in English. However, while I understood Adlai Stevenson's remarks about "disingenuous dissembling," I was baffled by gobbledygook." TIME'S [March 19] "polysyllabic

JERROLD MITCHELL New York City

Sir: Mr. Stevenson's phrase, "disingenuous dissembling," was probably well understood by the citizens of Fergus Falls.

RUTH S. BARR Crown Point, Ind.

Sir: In accusing Adlai Stevenson of "polysyllabic gobbledygook," you are guilty of a super abundant redundance of superfluity.

PHIL SHELDON Phoenix, Ariz.

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