B. & K.

Sir:

Congratulations on the fine and informative April 30 article on Khrushchev. It is a pity that the freedom-loving English invited a tyrant who, in his rise to power, executed millions of Ukrainians who resisted Communism.

TARAS CHARACHALIS College Park, Md.

Sir:

To those behind the Iron Curtain, B. & K.'s visit here was a tremendous shock.

A. K. KEDZIOR Colonel, former chief of Polish General Staff. London

Sir:

You overlooked one significant fact in the otherwise excellent analysis concerning the cold-shoulder treatment accorded to B. & K. by the British--as contrasted to the effusive welcome extended Georgy. It is crystal-clear that Boom Boom Khrushchev vanquished Peep Peep Malenkov in the preliminaries for the fumbling championship of the U.S.S.R. Now, the tag team of Bim & Bom is in training for the finals. Naturally, the British, being the jolly sporting type, are rooting for the underdog to make a comeback.

CHARLES H. STROM San Francisco

The Vanishing Range

Sir:

Every now and then somebody from another part of the country wants to know why Texas cattlemen are in bad shape financially when they made so much money during the war boom. Your April 23 story should give them the answer. Those of us who are sticking this drought out are not looking for shoulders to cry on. Your article does help the rest of the country to know about conditions; it might even help to buck up farmers and ranchers who have had good rains and good crops but are complaining about the plight of agriculture. Maybe some of Mr. Wilhelm's philosophy, full of grit and fortitude, could by contrast make their lives seem a good deal brighter.

W. A. SEIDEL Knippa, Texas

Sir:

I've accepted the Big Dry with much the same resignation as I've accepted everything else about Texas. Your article made me realize it was not a local exaggeration. I would like to add a footnote: a fellow from the office went fishing last weekend and upon his return was naturally asked if he had any luck. "Sure did," he replied. "We found water."

A. A. AITCHES San Antonio

Politics v. Principles

Sir:

On the farm bill veto you say [April 23]: Eisenhower "decided to let principle not politics be his guide." Those who, after the President vetoed the gas control bill, said, "Now we know he is a candidate for reelection" have had their words flung back into their teeth. Dwight Eisenhower has again so refreshingly reminded us of the saying: Politicians look to the next election, statesmen to the next generation.

M. C. McLAY Los Angeles

Sir:

It is absolutely nauseating that the Democrats are so two-faced that they would play around with farm families' welfare just to be able to "provide the only way to get a Democrat elected President in November."

RICHARD L. BRUBAKER Stillwater, Okla.

Art & the Artichoke

Sir:

On looking at your April 16 Art Section:

I marvel at people who are ready to buy Obnoxious paintings that offend the eye, Like Picasso's wanton practical joke, That's known as the "Lady with Artichoke."

And wonder what odd capricious whim Could create this figure of visage grim. One thing is clear for all to see Who view her image: no Monroe, she. I can't truly say that I envy the bloke Who owns the lady of the artichoke; Then why go and pay a fortune small, To have her hanging on his wall?

HILARY E. ARATHOON Guatemala

The Shores of Parris Island (Contd.)

Sir:

I'm finishing up my two-year tour with Uncle Sam, and therefore I had a great deal of interest in your version of the Parris Island tragedy [April 23]. The article was excellent. Sergeant McKeon made a "stupid mistake," but perhaps the real tragedy is the preparation, and the fighting of war itself. ROBERT M. PALMER Long Island City, N.Y.

Sir:

It was with great concern that I received the news of the unfortunate incident. My main regard is not for the loss of the six young Marines, sympathetic as I may be, but I am afraid the accident may precipitate another really great tragedy--a change in the Marine Corps' basic training methods. The Corps doesn't just teach a man how to fight, it makes a fighter out of him. I only hope that thoughtless political pressure will not cause the Marines to change certain traditional training techniques, which are instrumental in molding the fighting Marine who emerges from boot camp.

LLOYD W. MARTINSON

Madison, Wis.

Sir: ,

The commandant and the commander of the Parris Island barracks should be booted from the Corps because the responsibility is squarely on their shoulders for allowing Mc-Keon to be a group leader of men. McKeon, who is obviously a misfit, is to be pitied CHARLES M. WATSON Brookhaven, Miss.

Sir:

Where were the lieutenants, captains, majors and colonels who were McKeon's superiors? They are the real culprits. General Pate should have been above placing the blame on a four-stripe sergeant.

JEROME K. HIGHTOWER Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.) Junction City, Kans.

Sir:

King Christophe, mad dictator of Haiti, once had a formation of his troops march off the high walls of his fortress to their death to test their obedience. Unlike Sergeant McKeon, the King did not go with his men--perhaps because he realized "he had never been in the area before."

ARNOLD T. KOCH JR. Menands, N.Y.

Sir:

If the U.S. Marine Corps had not used the type of training program employed, your magazine would be limited to a Japanese edition.

JAMES H. GOODMAN Seattle

If You Knew Sousa

Sir:

Your April 16 article on the Washington Post refers to that paper as "celebrated in song by John Philip Sousa's march bearing its name." For years Sousa led the famous U.S. Marine Corps band quartered at Marine headquarters, Washington, D.C. -- long known as the Washington post of the Marine Corps. I therefore contend that this martial air of Sousa's is the "Washington Post March" and not that of the Washington Post.

MONTGOMERY C. JACKSON Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.) (Ex-Private, U.S.M.C.) Carmel, Calif.

P: In 1889 the Washington Post sponsored an essay contest for public school students and invited John Philip Sousa to compose a march for the prize-awarding day when some 22,000 children turned out for the great event (held on the Smithsonian grounds). There the Marine band, as the Post later reported, "played a stirring march composed by Professor Sousa dedicated to the Washington Post"--ED.

Shahn's Freud

Sir:

The very unusual Sigmund Freud cover on TIME, April 23 is a pleasure to see.

ALICE VON SCHLEGELL Larchmont, N.Y.

Sir:

Congratulations on your excellent covers. We are particularly fond of Henry Koerner, who painted the "Joan of Arc" [Nov. 28] cover. Shahn's "Freud" is wonderful.

GEORGE F. PARKER

Pittsburgh

Sir:

Ben Shahn is one of the most important painters in America nowadays; and TIME shows taste as well as discrimination in displaying examples of his art. I only wish that it would happen more often.

JEAN SIMARD

Ecole des Beaux-Arts Montreal

Sir:

I suppose I am the 16,000th letter writer to point out that Dr. Freud's spectacles on cover are shown with the temple frames inverted, or does the artist imply a minor Freudiosyncracy in the way the doctor wore his glasses?

P.A. LAVIN

Leominster, Mass.

P:No Freudiosyncracy; just a lapsus manus.--ED.

The Freudian Couch (Contd.)

Sir:

Why will you stoop so low as to air the garments of an old rascal--an atheist--such as Sigmund Freud? Your story was superbly done, but have you ever paused to consider that ". . . the rowdyism, riot and revolt of the youth" can be laid at the doorstep of Freud & Co. You could make another bundle and lay it at the front stoop of the National Education Association--they picked up the ball and recast it as progressive (permissive) education.

R. C. MINNICK Merna, Neb.

Sir:

To call Sigmund Freud a philosopher, in the true sense of the word, is a gross misnomer. A philosopher is one who examines the ultimate causes, principles, and reasons for man's existence. To construct a philosophy on Freudian principles would lead to a reductio ad absurdum to end all reductios.

DONALD A. CONNELLY

Worcester, Mass.

Sir:

One devout and earnest Christian prayer is worth more in the healing of the human mind and heart than all the bunk-shooting of all the psychoanalysts in the world.

VINCENT GODFREY BURNS

Annapolis, Md.

Fair Hearings

Sir:

You quoted a part of my comment concerning the censure of the administration of Ohio State University by the A.A.U.P. [April 16]. In doing this you identified me as a professor of political science. It is true that I hold that academic rank but, for accurate reporting of a probable bias, it should be noted that I am also vice president and thus a member of the censured administration.

FREDERIC HEIMBERGER Vice President The Ohio State University Columbus

Ward's Wards

Sir:

I would like to congratulate you on the splendid April 2 article on Ambassador Angus Ward, sometime U.S. Consul General in Kenya. Having had the pleasure of knowing him, I would like to say that he was one of the finest "genuine" gentlemen one could ever hope to meet, and a wonderful ambassador for his great country. During his term in Nairobi Mr. Ward did not have a "bearded Korean hen," but he did have two most impressive long-legged Manchurian cats which were very important members of the Ward household. When Mr. Ward finally left Nairobi for his new post in Kabul, Afghanistan, these two enormous and very intelligent animals rode in state on the specially prepared rear seat of Mr. Ward's Cadillac from Nairobi to Mombasa and later, after occupying their own cabin on board ship, from Karachi to Kabul, a trip of several thousand miles.

H. JACK LIVONIOUS Nairobi, Kenya

After the Wedding

Sir:

TIME'S April 30 recounting of the Kelly-Rainier wedding could have been kinder. Leave it to the unconcerned countries and the washed-out royalty of Europe to give the barbed remarks and the snubs . . .

RUTH ELINOR TREND Bronxville, N.Y.

Sir:

I wonder how many letters you have received from those of Irish descent regarding Randolph Churchill's comment on the "vulgar Kellys"? Such remarks make it almost impossible to understand or believe in the publicized advantages of British diplomacy and rule in the few dominions and colonies Britain still governs.

MARGARET DE Lucco Tiffin, Ohio

Sir:

So! Britain could send only "a mere marshal of its diplomatic corps" [April 23] to the wedding of Prince Rainier II and Miss Kelly but was able to do considerably better for two visiting Russian commoners. I am wearied of paying taxes to support ungrateful people who feel they are too good to attend the wedding of a fine American girl.

MRS. JACKSON MARTEL Macon, Ga.

Sir:

Rainier and his bride are extremely fortunate that anyone came as representatives of Great Britain and the U.S., and Queen Elizabeth's gift should be accepted gracefully.

BARBARA P. LECROY Osceola, Ark.

Sir:

TIME implies that our Queen snubbed Rainier and his bride. But what could the Queen do? She had to frown on her sister's proposed morganatic marriage a short time ago.

T. F. BREEN

Sark, Guernsey, England

The Bold

Sir:

I don't know who wrote the April 16 review of The Bold and the Brave but I would like to express my profound gratitude for it ... The idea for the movie came about when a young producer friend of mine was showing a 16-mm. film history of the 34th ("Red Bull") Division, and I saw my own tank destroyer in action in Italy. I got very excited and decided to write a war story. I will be grateful my whole life for such a profound, incisive and very beautifully written analysis of what I was trying to do.

ROBERT C. LEWIN Beverly Hills, Calif.

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