The Visit
Sir:
The impending visit of Khrushchev to the U.S. places those who have been fighting Communism as an enemy of Americanism in a delicate position. It is obvious that Khrushchev must personally see America to understand why it would be inadvisable for him to precipitate Russia into a war. On the other hand, his invitation to visit America as an official guest of our Government has tremendous propaganda value for him.
EDWARD G. PETRILLO Erie, Pa.
Sir:
The invitation was ill-considered; any notion that he, after seeing the U.S. himself, will renounce force, is false.
B. KACZMAR
Adelaide, Australia
Sir:
Now would be an excellent time for the people of America to grow up to the facts of international politics. International relations are not a game of good cowboys against bad cowboys; very little can be gained by an attitude of righteous indignation that the top boss of Communism be allowed to visit the United States as an honored guest. War is the common enemy of the whole world; clear-cut understanding and removal of prejudices and fatal illusions of superiority from both sides are our weapons.
DAVID O. KASE
Cincinnati
Sir:
Now that Khrushchev is coming to America, can't Americans be persuaded to pronounce his name correctly ?
EDWARD G. FLETCHER Portland, Me.
P:Pronunciation: JZhrooshchov.--ED.
The Traveler
Sir:
The enthusiastic receptions the people of Russia, Siberia and Poland gave Nixon proves how they, like us, prefer Nixon and Americanism over Khrushchev and Communism. J. KESNER KAHN Chicago
Sir:
The next Man of the Year can be none other than Richard Nixon, just as our next President must be none other than Nixon. VAL BRAUN Topeka, Kans.
Sir:
So you approve Ike's sending a boy to trade boasts and boos with expert bogeyman Khrushchev. A less mouthy ball carrier would have been better.
ARTHUR C. WARD Fort Bragg, Calif.
Sir:
Though I was born and raised a Democrat, Dick Nixon has my vote in the coming election. Any man who can spread so much good will with no beat-around-the-bush stuff is worthy of a good Democratic vote.
ESTHER SHELTON Huntsville, Ala.
The Aloha State
Sir:
Never have I read an article that captured "home" so well for me as did your Aug. 10 cover story on Hawaii. Yes, my school diplomas are signed by Oren E. Long; yes, I remember Dan Inouye on the campus and in the classrooms at the U. of H.
Those old familiar words of Mr. Pacheco's, "No more da car. Da ole Lady bin go Lihue," made tears come to my eyes.
LEILANI PYLE Washington, D.C.
Sir:
I salute TIME for the fine article on our Governor Bill Quinn. We are very proud of him and happy to have him as our new state's Governor. Who knows, some day he may be the President of the U.S.
D. W. SUR
Honolulu
Sir:
It seems strange to have an Irish name at the top of such a conglomerate of races. Might I suggest a new name for the "infant," viz. the "QUINN-qua-gesima" state.
JAMES J. ADAMS Killarney, Ireland
Sir:
Your special report on Hawaii was the best of any I have read about our fiftieth state. The color photographs were most enticing. This seems to be the ideal place to "get away from it all."
GILES H. RUNYON Campobello, S.C.
Goddess in the Desert
Sir:
Congratulations on your excellent August 10 color picture story of Leptis Magna. I wish I could have taken home such fine color pictures when I visited this marvelous ancient place in 1942. One of the photographs I took shows the marble statue of a goddess.
WALTER OETLINGER Ajax, Ont.
The Steel Strike
Sir:"
U.S. Steel's Mr. Roger Blough should invite the Steelworkers' Mr. David McDonald and other top men of the steel union on a trip to visit Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.
They will see for themselves the economic consequences of a race that started a few years back between wages and cost of living.
Many thought wages and salaries could go up without having prices go up too. Soon they found this was not possible, so the only way to meet higher prices was to demand higher salaries, thus starting a second round of a race that has become wild.
JULIO A. FERRANDO Montevideo
Sir:
Let me be the first to wish a happy Labor Day to U.S. Steal.
BURT PRELUTSKY Los Angeles
"Right to Hate?"
Sir:
It was a dream come true to see an important national publication such as TIME recognize the impact of the Moslem movement among the Negroes and upon the society as a whole [Aug. 10]. As an undergraduate, I did a research project on this sect entitled The Black Racists.
This movement is both attractive to and prevalent among Negroes in a lower socio-economic stratum. This philosophy provides them with a mechanism to strike back at a white-dominated society. The function of this religion, I submit, is "the right to express hate."
TONY BROWN Detroit
Sir:
Islam has no racial discrimination. Moslems come in all colors. Muhammad had better read and understand the Koran before claiming to be a Moslem.
FAROUK ALKAZI
London
Sir:
What was your purpose in writing this questionable article? Surely, it was not out of "love for the black man!" You have been brought up on a diet of "white makes right," and there is no "fairness" or "justice" in your makeup for "black people." Long live "Elijah Muhammad."
HERBERT G. BROWN
Brooklyn
SIR:
UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE THAT TIME MAKES REFERENCE TO ME AS MOSLEM IN SAME ISSUE IN WHICH REFERENCE IS MADE TO MESSENGER MUHAMMAD, AN ALLEGED MOSLEM. MUHAMMAD MOVEMENT IS REJECTED BY PEACE-LOVING AND LAW-ABIDING TRUE MOSLEMS. TIME READERS SHOULD DIFFERENTIATE IN JUSTICE TO TRUE MOSLEMS IN U.S.
AHMAD JAMAL
NEW YORK CITY
Sir:
Elijah Muhammad is doing more to promote hatred for the Negro than many Southern segregationists could hope to do. LARRY M. RASKIN Washington, D.C.
Pat & Paul
SIR:
IN THE AUGUST 3 ISSUE APPEARED THIS COMPLETELY UNTRUE STATEMENT: "... BUTLER HAD DELETED PRAISE FOR CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP FROM A LETTER THAT CALIFORNIA'S GOVERNOR PAT BROWN HAD SENT IN ACCEPTING MEMBERSHIP ON THE LIB-ERAL-HUED DEMOCRATIC ADVISORY COUNCIL." PAUL M. BUTLER CHAIRMAN
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, D.C.
SIR:
A STATEMENT WAS RELEASED BY PAUL BUTLER IN WASHINGTON AFTER HAVING BEEN READ TO ME AND I THEN ISSUED A STATEMENT ACCEPTING IN LOS ANGELES. MY FULL STATEMENT WAS NOT CARRIED ON WIRE AFTER RELEASE ON WEST COAST AND PAUL BUTLER KNEW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT IT.
EDMUND G. BROWN GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA WASHINGTON, D.C.
P:Pat Brown's statement carefully included praise for the congressional leadership; Paul Butler's did not. This led to TIME'S report, now proved erroneous, that Butler had edited Brown.--ED
Wesley, the Pope & Belloc
Sir:
It is disappointing that TIME would waste space with The Pilot's trite snipes at Methodist Bishop Lord's rather penetrating questions [Aug. 10]. I am quite certain that just as I am not forced to accept John Calvin ex cathedra, neither is any Methodist bound by John Wesley's feeling about revolutions, whisky or China.
( THE REV. ) WILLIAM F. HENNING JR.
St. Stephen Presbyterian Church Fort Worth
Sir:
Senator Kennedy would do well to quote Hilaire Belloc, who, in an election speech, said: "Gentlemen, I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day ... If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that he has spared me the indignity of being your representative."
GEORGE FLEVARES Yankton, S. Dak.
Sir:
When the papacy is as dead as John Wesley, Roman Catholic laymen will be as free from clerical control as Methodists.
JANE Z. WHITE
Cheshire, Conn.
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