Dissent, With Comment

Sir:

Is there any ideal way we can legally get rid of Chief Justice Warren ?

MRS. E. TORKILSEN

Kenai, Alaska

Sir:

In the Du Pont case the majority of the court tortured the Clayton " ct to arrive at its decision. The opinion of the minority was not only good law but. was ?rood. sound, common sense. In the Jencks case the decision went far beyond the issues noon which the court was called to decide. It seems to me to have been a gratuitous slap in the face to Government law-enforcement agencies, particularly the honored and respected FBI. It will aid and encourage subversives in their nefarious designs against the integrity of our country.

Louis W. ARNOLD JR.

New York City

Sir:

You don't seem to enjoy the brave new look our Chief Justice is giving the Supreme Court. But down here we think that if he was big enough in the segregation case to amend the Constitution singlehanded he should be big enough to kick Du Pont in the pants.

R. B. HERBERT Columbia, S.C.

Sir:

Congratulations on finally admitting the logic of the Southern argument against the Nine Sociologists, even though you still shove aside logic to cling to your legal unrealism on the [race] mixing decision.

KARL ELEBASH JR. Birmingham

Sir:

Khrushchev's prophecy that "your grandchildren in America will live under Socialism" is not ridiculous. He is observing the fast-moving events on the American political scene. The Roosevelt-Truman-Eisenhower team, aided and abetted by an increasingly pinkish Supreme Court, has catapulted America well down the road to Socialism.

H. E. STOCKBURGER Wheaton, 111.

After 20 Years

Sir:

My thanks to TIME for publishing the photo of Mr. and Mrs. Petrov, authors of Empire of Fear. Curiously enough, it cleared for me the mystery of my only brother's disappearance in Soviet Russia. I fled from the U.S.S.R. in 1920. There I left my younger brother, with whom I corresponded regularly until 1937; then something happened. I never got another letter from him.

Mrs. Petrov's face in your picture looked strangely familiar to me. I compared it with the photo my brother sent me of his wife Evdokia and himself (prior to his disappearance), and I was almost sure that my brother's wife Evdokia and Mrs. Petrov were the same person. After that, I got a copy of their book and, true enough, Evdokia in her autobiography describes in detail her life with my brother, and the tragic fate that befell him after his arrest and imprisonment by the State Security Police in Moscow in 1937. Thus, after 20 years, if it were not for the picture in TIME, I would still be wondering what happened to my brother in Russia.

BORIS KRIVOSS

Santiago, Chile

P:For the picture that led Reader Krivoss to the story of his brother, see cut.--ED.

Strike or Boll?

Sir:

The picture you ran of the Vice President and his daughter at the baseball game [June 10] is good for millions of votes. I don't know when I have seen a more delightful shot.

HUGH F. COLLITON JR. Boston

Sir:

The picture is gratuitously brutal and malicious, serving no decent purpose. The child will never live it down.

HELEN MARY HAYES Lincoln, Neb.

Girord & Justice

Sir:

As an American citizen who was sent to Japan under orders of the Army, Girard deserves the full protection of his constitutional rights by his government, no matter how guilty he might be. This case is not one for appointees of the Administration to decide; only an American court of law should have the final say as to whether he should be turned over to the Japanese authorities or not.

CHARLES ROBBINS ARNOLD Lombard, 111.

Sir:

I disagree sharply with Dulles and Wilson. If Girard "was not authorized," then why place a man on guard if there is no sane reason for a guard in the first place?

(A/2C) R. VAN WALLENDAEL U.S.A.F. Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Sir:

In contrast to the emotional outcries over the Girard case, thanks to TIME for its dispassionate and accurate treatment of the facts surrounding the status-of-forces agreements. The wailing mothers and "prideful chauvinists" have lost sight of one all-important point: if the American serviceman wants to ensure himself against prosecution in a foreign court, he can refrain from committing a crime.

M. E. BANE Captain, U.S.M.C. Dallas

Sir:

It is difficult to understand why the young man was turned over to Japanese authorities for trial. But had he observed the "Thou shalt not kill" commandment he, and America, would never have been placed in this predicament. Also suppose an American woman had been killed by a Japanese. How many times would we have heard the expression "somebody's mother" and how many references to the "widower" and the "orphans left behind?"

RALPH H. MORSE Concord, N.H.

Sir:

Fair-weather patriots must, as usual, get into the act, including vote-hungry senators. Indeed, what is at stake? The U.S. reputation of good faith abroad, or crackpot chauvinism in Ottawa, 111.

PETER G. EARLE Princeton, NJ.

Sir:

It behooves someone to investigate the whole status-of-forces agreements.

(T/SGT.) WANDA L. EASLEY U.S.A.F. Chanute, 111.

Smoke Wrings

Sir:

One more thing in regard to cancer and cigarette smoking [June 17]: I wonder what percentage of our lives we non-smokers lose by having to sit in smoke-filled rooms and yet make no protest for manners' sake?

EUGENE B. VEST Dixon, 111.

Sir:

Since we now know that cigarette smoking helps destroy human life, isn't it time we legislated some protection for ourselves against this aromatic enemy? Isn't it time now to revive that prophetic slang phrase of several decades ago and again refer to coffin nails?

ARTHUR S. GILLMAN

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Sir:

I wonder when these so-called intelligent medical researchers will look into the mental and emotional factors surrounding the lives of heavy smokers who seem to be the victims of what is known as incurable disease. Some day I'm sure they will discover that they have been getting the cart before the horse.

PAUL A. ERICKSON

Aurora, 111.

How to Be Saved (Contd.)

Sir:

Let me heartily agree with Letter Writer Jesse H. Harvey [June 17] concerning the tragic mental deteriorations generated by Billy Graham's misrepresentation of the nature of God as an "eye" of stern judgment. Why must so-called "evangelism" always be thus divorced from the Gospel of Christ, which clearly and consistently manifests the true character of God as love? By His own acknowledgment, Christ came not to judge the world, but to save the world. Billy Graham and his ilk purportedly lead to Christ's saving thousands of human "souls," but let us pray that Christ (love) will eventually save the Billy Grahams.

E. D. MCDOWELL Kansas City, Mo.

Sir:

As both a physician and a Christian I beg to differ with the statements of Psychotherapist Jesse Harvey. The basis of Freudian psychotherapy is helping one see his faults, frustrations, inadequacies and failures in the light of his very nature. Christianity also points men to their shortcomings, faults, mistakes and inadequacies, makes known the Creator's displeasure with man's performance, but then wonderfully solves the dilemma by affording forgiveness for the past, strength for the present, and hope for the future.

WILLIAM I. GARCIA JR., M.D. Los Angeles

Tenderly

Sir:

A sentence in the June 17 review of The Wayward Bus says "the salesman wins the blonde to wife by promising her a stove that plays Tenderly when the steak is done. And Jayne Mansfield looks dumb enough to believe him." Please tell your Cinema reviewer that I am blonde and a little dumb but I know that the 1957 Hotpoint range plays Tenderly when the roast is done. What's more, my husband has sold quite a few!

CHARLOTTE HECK Bethlehem, Pa.

P: TIME never doubted Hotpoint's ability to play it cool, thought the salesman would cool off before the blonde heard the tune. Tenderly.--ED.

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