The Offshore Islands
Sir:
Mr. Dulles should be congratulated for the firmness of his recent warnings to Peking. Weakening by the Americans would be a disaster. If Mao gets away with seizure of Quemoy, his next target may well be Hong Kong.
K. H. W. HILBORN London
Sir:
Why continue to pour billions of dollars of aid into Communist countries when it has failed to make them cooperative or even happy ? Let's try beer.
MRS. F. S. KACZMAREK
Milwaukee
Sir:
Now we are ready to go to war over Quemoy and Matsu, sitting ducks for the Commies, and strategically zero in the defense of Formosa. We should throw away American lives for these little rocks off the Red Chinese coast?
JOSEPH W. MOSSER Avignon, France
Sir:
We are placing ourselves within gun range of Communist China, which is certain to cause an incident that will plunge us into another war. I don't recall the Lord giving us the power to police a family fight between Communist China and the political corpse, Chiang Kaishek.
EDWARD H. COWAN
Brooklyn
WIND'S Winner
Sir:
The "I am going back to school because" contest conducted by radio station WIND, Chicago [TIME, Sept. 8], is heartening and timely. Ellen Goldsmith of suburban Glencoe, Ill. was the $100 grand prize winner. She is 14 and a high school freshman. Ellen is no egghead: she is active in scouting, athletic, a topflight camper, loves to jitterbug and is studying piano. I am a proud grandpa.
ARTHUR A. LEVISON
Pittsburgh
Lambeth Talk
Sir:
Hearty thanks to TIME for the fine summary [Sept. 8] of the Lambeth conference statement advocating contraception and birth control. It is so much more sensible, dignified--and Christian--than the stand taken by the Roman church, which reduces human beings to the level of animals having physical relations solely for the purpose of producing offspring.
M. E. CERVANTES
New York City
Sir:
If the sperm is consistently blocked from reaching the egg, and intercourse between man and woman proceeds with the knowledge of this separation between them, the human being shows himself to be not only smarter than the animals but also capable of greater ennui. Where is the love in that, and to what is the sex act reduced?
FRANK R. MAIORANA Mesa, Ariz.
Sir:
Most of the Protestant bishops are married and practice birth control. Ergo, they must devise some means of justifying it.
S. R. BEYMA Phoebus, Va.
Sir:
Honestly! Protestant congregations are more and more the shepherd and the ministers the sheep.
JOANNE COULSON Monterey Park, Calif.
Sir:
Anglicans and assorted Protestants arise! You have been betrayed by your protectors. Just think of the non-birth-controlling Roman Catholics busy filling the world with more non-birth-controlling Catholics; while you are conserving air, water and food through birth control, the fruitful Catholics are gobbling it all up. The way to combat this problem: beget more Anglicans.
R. L. MAY
Fine Italian Head
Sir:
When you write about Carmine De Sapio [Sept. 8], always include a photo of him. By any esthetic and physiognomic standard, he is the most exceptionally handsome man on the American contemporary scene-handsome in that ultimate patriarchal, cosmopolitan way, with the impeccable features of a Medici prince.
JOHN KALUS Cleveland
Sir:
I still have the feeling that some day the people of New York will come to their senses and realize that hoodlums like De Sapio will have to go.
WESLEY REED Denver
Third Person Singular
Sir:
I wonder how Professor Tuttle would rate TIME [Sept. 8] English-wise, in its sentence, ". . . only a third of the English teachers in U.S. secondary schools have studied their subjects extensively, and another third is 'seriously underprepared.' "
JOHN T. EVERETT JR. Athens, Ohio
Broken Spell
Sir:
Hooray for large, cooperative families such as Mrs. Richard Nauman's (TIME, Sept. 8). But please, no smug remarks about grandmother's superior method of planned parenthood--breast feeding.
I nursed my firstborn enthusiastically for five months--until the day I discovered I was three months along on my second.
CARYL DEFARIA Orinda, Calif.
Sir:
Mrs. Nauman and others should know that breast feeding is not an effective way to plan parenthood--unless the plan is to space children a bit closer than two years apart.
JOHN F. NOWELL, M.D. Falls Church, Va.
Sir:
Grandma had no choice but an unscientific approach to life, but I marvel, in this enlightened day, at the anachronistic "old wife" who still wags that tale of contraception by breast feeding. Could she also let us in on a good spell against the evil eye?
BEVERLY K. EDWARDS Verden, Okla.
Integration
Sir:
$100 million of foreign aid to Asia for every arrogant, despicable word that Faubus says could never cover the shame and ill-feeling that America is reaping abroad.
JOHN WRIGHT
Bangalore, India
Sir:
The recent race riots in Great Britain have been instigated and carried out by a few loafers, rowdies, corner-enders and people of no account. In your country and South Africa, however, racial discrimination is often supported by the law and where it is not you flout the law anyway. The time will never come when Great Britain's lawmakers, law-enforcers and politicians will be influenced by the same motives as those governing the despicable and abject minds of Faubus, Eastland, the late Strijdom and Verwoerd.
L. SANDISON Ottawa
Sir:
The riots in Britain will continue and probably spread. We have no intention of becoming second-class citizens in our own country just to fulfill a political dream. A. W. STANTON London
Wishful Drinking
Sir:
Your Sept. 8 story of Editor Lorimer of the Satevepost ordering the glasses brushed out of an illustration of a cocktail party amused me, as I was the artist. The characters looked pretty silly with elbows bent and nothing to show. The Boss gave me you know what and said, "I'll give you a rest," and he did for two years. Then I got the Ephraim Tutt series, which lasted for years.
ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN New York City
Brother Milton
Sir:
Many people, I feel sure, will be grateful for your story [Sept. 8] on Milton Eisenhower, the President's younger brother. I am glad to find that I was wrong in my belief that he was a liberal of the type to be feared, in view of his closeness to the President.
ANGELA WILLS New York City
Sir:
Milton Eisenhower is a fine man, yes, but according to TIME, his already-sprouted wings are almost full-blown.
MIRIAM WILBUR
San Diego
SIR:
I WOULD LIKE TO BE A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE TOTALLY UNAUTHORIZED "MILTON IN SIXTY" CLUB. MEMBERSHIP OPEN.
PAUL GARNER PITTSBURGH
Sir-
Milton Eisenhower took his debutante daughter with him on his Central American tour. Who paid her way?
SARA G. ROSE San Diego
P: The Government, because she was her widowed father's official hostess. --ED.
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