Aftermath
Sir:
Now is the time for all good Republicans to go into hiding.
(MRS.) MARY Z. WALTERS Indianapolis
Sir:
It is now quite evident that the American electorate has chosen a typical "New Deal" Congress to represent us in Washington. It is also quite evident that the same American electorate desires more and more socialistic legislation.
Why not declare a welfare state in the U.S. and get it over with ?
JEAN DE MEO New Haven, Conn.
Sir:
On Nov. 4, the Republican Party reaped its retribution for the use of bayonets at Little Rock.
W. G. ESPY Dothan, Ala.
Sir:
Justice has triumphed! Two traitors have been punished partially: De Sapio for the Democrats and Knowland for the Republicans. When people forsake their parties for personal gain, they should be thrown out of the party.
FRANKLYN W. KELLEY North Hollywood, Calif.
Sir:
If the people of New York State expressed their revulsion and rebellion by repudiating "bossism" at the polls, it cannot be denied that Mr. Harriman's vacillating character and Mayor Wagner's indecisiveness were also repudiated. If Tammany Hall Carmine De Sapio slaughtered the ceremonial pig on which Mr. Rockefeller dined, Governor Harriman and Mayor Wagner served it to him on a sterling silver tray, with an apple in its mouth.
A. L. LAURICELLA New York City
Sir:
Down with the blintz-munching, spaghetti-slurping, model-T-riding, cow-milking, let-me-shake-your-wonderful-hand type of campaigner. Why not restrict these grotesque acts of idiocy to the first week of September, requiring thereafter that candidates think and speak?
PETER G. EARLE
Princeton, NJ.
Sir:
Heartfelt congratulations to New York State for giving to Nelson Rockefeller such a large welcoming majority. He is such an unselfish, well-bred man, and rich. He can afford to be generous even to his opponents. We would certainly elect him, providing he wants the job, President.
MRS. M. M. HUNTINGTON
Damariscotta, Me.
Man of the Year
Sir:
Charles de Gaulle or Orval Faubus. De Gaulle will be remembered for leading his country from chaos to what should be a self-sustaining nation in the eyes of the world; Faubus will be remembered for leading his state from frustration to chaos to attain personal glory at the expense of thousands of Arkansas citizens who would have otherwise swallowed the integration pill along with their tradition and pride as law-abiding people.
ALBERT 0. SONNENBERG Kingston, N.Y.
Sir:
If not De Gaulle--Pasternak!
RICHARD BEERS Northfield, Vt.
Sir:
Fidel Castro. He happens to be the only man still fighting for his freedom.
CUTHBERT J. TWILLEY Moline, ILL.
Sir:
William Knowland--who, by his supporting lost causes, not voting in favor of the McCarthy censure, and his political immaturity, as shown by the recent election, has ruined the Republican Party in California for sure.
RALPH P. SYMONS Los Angeles
Sir:
I nominate not "one" Man of the Year, but a group of men: the rescued, the rescuers and the dead at the Springhill mine disaster.
R. D. BROWN Quebec
Mrs. L to Mrs. R.
Sir:
Could I possibly have misinterpreted the following quote from Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt? "Education has been lacking for the chief educator, the President of the United States. It has been nil [Oct. 27]." Our President is a graduate of West Point. He has been an inspiration to our cadets, and through his service to us and our country during World War II and for the past six years, he has inspired confidence in the whole free world. Let's have many more "ignorant" men like Eisenhower, and fewer remarks in bad taste from Mrs. Roosevelt.
MRS. L. M. LARSEN
Brooklyn
Pasternak's Future
Sir:
The pressure brought to bear on Boris Pasternak by his own countrymen should shock every liberal in the Western world. I wonder if America's liberals have sent their protests against this barbarism to the leaders of Russia? I believe Adlai Stevenson and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt should make their disgust widely known as should our own government leaders. If our liberals cannot attack this phony Communist love for artists, they should defrost their phony liberal heads.
G. L. WHEELER Los Angeles
Popes: Old & New
Sir:
We Protestants have had a complete bellyful of these ridiculous, ludicrous events in Rome during the past few weeks. After those power-seekers in the Vatican finally reached a decision, it must have indeed been a bitter cup of gall for them to kiss the slipper of the man they elected. Do you think if Kennedy is elected President in 1960 he will fall down and kiss the Pope's slipper?
HERBERT V. DODGE St. Clair Shores, Mich.
Sir:
Why all the ceremonial fuss over the election of a new Pope? I suppose it is because his position as president of the oldest existing corporation is regarded by millions of people as the world's biggest job. The Roman Catholic Church is said to be the wealthiest firm with one exception--the Coca-Cola Co.; then why not work up a similar degree of excitement over the appointment of a new president for that corporation or Standard Oil of New Jersey?
FRANK VINCENT WADDY Hollywood
Sir:
As a tolerant individual, I can honestly say your magazine is top-heavy with Catholic news. Why did you not just plant the old boy and forget the whole thing?
ROY BLOCKSIDGE Capron, ILL.
Sir:
Your excellent series on the death of Pius XII and the election of John XXIII were well done and handled in a proper and diplomatic manner.
RICHARD E. JOAS
Grosse Pointe, Mich.
The Minister Speaks
Sir:
I feel that the part of your Oct. 27 article on France which deals with me is both unfair and untrue. It tends to show me as a kind of would-be dictator, as a man who tries, against General de Gaulle himself, to acquire enormous powers by a one-party system. This sort of smearing campaign has been waged against me for months by Communist or extreme-leftist papers here; I must say 1 am surprised to see it resumed by a magazine with usually high professional standards.
It would take too much space to detail all the inaccuracies your reporter has fallen into. A sample: I am not, and never was, a supporter of "the old system of proportional representation" against which I have consistently fought for the last twelve years.
The main points I object to because I believe they are meant as a slanderous propaganda are the following:
1) The "one-party bloc" fallacy. Your article is so contrived as to make the average reader believe I am in favor of a one-party system, i.e., of some fascist state. On the contrary, I am on record as having stated or written many times (e.g., in the February issue of the Paris Revue des Deux-Mondes) that France cannot expect to have less than five or six parties. What I did was to lead some splinter parties which had exactly the same basic ideas to merge into a single organization, which surely is no crime against democracy.
2) The whole article is based either on affirmations or innuendoes to the effect that I have been, so to say, conspiring against General de Gaulle and that he scored a triumph in a battle against me. The first point I consider a gross insult, as I have been on General de Gaulle's side for 18 years, as I still am; the second one is simply ludicrous. It is ridiculous to talk of my "blasted dreams" and even more to say that France experimented with the birth of hope because I, the number one enemy, was "under control." By the way, the "liberal" policy in Algeria stated by the President in his Constantine speech entirely coincides with the reforms plan I put together myself when I was Governor of Algeria in 1955. Now, by what curious magic should this plan 1)0 liberal in one case and reactionary in the other ?
3) The paragraph "Furious at his setbacks," etc. ... is a tissue of distorted facts and even, I am sorry to say, of downright lies. I was not furious at any setbacks; I was invited by General de Gaulle to have a cup of coffee with him, and we quietly and confidently discussed the political situation. Neither did I "demand" bluntly or otherwise permission to form a right-wing coalition, nor did the general have to "icily refuse." All this interview, as narrated by TIME, is to what really happened what a fairy tale is to reality.
It is quite evident that all those developments have been simply copied from extreme-left Paris papers which have taken me as their favorite aim because my political action up to May last proved a stumbling block to their policy of surrender in North Africa. I feel it is a pity that an American magazine should think it fit to feed its readers that sort of unwholesome stuff. What, may I ask, would America and indeed the whole free world gain if Algeria fell into the hands of anti-Western fanatics?
JACQUES SOUSTELLE
Minister of Information Paris
TIME'S source was not the Parisian left-wing press but its own reporting of key figures in the De Gaulle government. And TIME (like everyone else) assumes that De Gaulle had Soustelle's front specifically in mind when he for bade campaigning under the name De Gaulle "even as an adjective." ED.
Sir: Lest They Forget Re your footnote comments on Queen Elizabeth's German ancestry | Nov. 1: of German testl are our Eisenhower, Can ada's Diefenbaker. But the Russians are really outdoing us and the English. They fired the Lord Himself and gave the job to the German Karl Marx, who replaced the Bible with Das Kapital.
HEINRICH PERLICH Cassia, Fla.
Beauty in B.C.
Sir:
How thrilling it was to find at last an article on British Columbia which presented just the right pictures with just the right prose ! No other magazine has done it!
EDITH G. HALL Durham, N.C.
Sir:
British Columbia sounds like a fabulous place, but good heavens -- 25-lb. brook trout? RICHARD E. MARTIN
Clifton, N.J.
Yes, a Dolly Varden.--ED.
TIME Listings
Sir:
I like your new LISTINGS. Why not include top radio programs too? There are still a few of us without an antenna.
MARY Lou PECKHAM
Cicero, Ind.
Sir:
This is to register one librarian's appreciation of "Best Sellers." To a library in a rural community this means much. It not only keeps the library abreast of what is being read, but is a valuable aid in ordering the newest books.
HARRIET F. ROGERS
Randolph, N.Y.
So Rose the Red
Sir:
TIME, Oct. 27 fell short in measuring Wade Nichols' accomplishments as editor of Redbook Magazine. Every issue of Redbook to date in 1958 has delivered higher circulation than the 2,591,676 that you report as our current figure. Redbook's average total paid circulation in the first six months of this year was 2,689,510.
CHARLES S. THORN Publisher Redbook New York City
P:When TIME'S story went to press, latest Audit Bureau of Circulation figures available listed Redbook's circulation at 2,591,676; a new A.B.C. figure published since then confirms Reader Thorn's 2,689,510.--ED.
Penguin Pie
Sir:
Would you kindly answer the following questions: Are penguins good to eat, and has anyone ever tried to transplant them from the Antarctic to the Arctic?
ELMER G. STILL Livermore, Calif. P:Although penguins remain unreconstructed Southerners, there is no reason why they should not be happy in the Arctic; gourmets have not commented on the cooked product, but explorers, suffering strictly from hunger, report that it tastes like something between beef and wild duck cooked with stale fish and served with cod-liver oil.--ED.
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