Justice & the Beast Sir: Let me congratulate you for the excellent coverage of Nazi Eichmann's kidnaping. It is beyond my limitations to realize how strongly the Jewish people must feel against such an aberration of human being.

But what right has the State of Israel to violate Argentine sovereignty and capture one of its citizens? What right has Israel to put on trial a subject of another state for crimes committed outside its territory?

I am not condoning the man Eichmarm in any respect, but trying to point out that international relations must be above individual passions and hates in all instances. J. R. WHITAKER PENTEADO JR. New York City

Sir: I want to congratulate the Israeli intelligence on a job well done. This should be a lesson for the thousands of Eichmanns still at large; the hand of justice has patience, but it will catch up with them.

JACK GREENSPAN Concentration Camp Inmate No. 80459 Monterey Park, Calif.

Sir: If your Eichmann article is factual, the Israelis are as vengeful as the Nazis and are equally culpable in flouting common law. For the Israel government to perpetrate and condone such acts can only cause the world to lose sympathy. L. W. HUNCKE Kansas City, Mo.

Sir: I do hope that all the anti-capital-punishment people who worked so hard for Caryl Chessman won't be too tired to go to bat for Adolf Eichmann. Adolf, like every criminal, was just a creature of circumstance who was pointed irretrievably to his destiny when he was between one and six. Killing him won't bring back all those people. MURRAY UBERMAN Brooklyn

Mr. Stevenson & Mr. K Sir: Adlai Stevenson's statement blaming the Republican Administration for the trouble at the summit proves him to be a political opportunist of the first order. MRS. IVAN SMITH Edgar, Wis.

Sir: With what has happened recently in our foreign relations, it should be Adlai Stevenson, in a walk, for the presidency. Today his qualities would finally do the best job for us.

C. B. PAPE Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Que.

Sir: Stevenson, of course, is that ultra-liberal Democrat who was a character witness for Alger Hiss ten years ago and who has been aptly described by his fellow party member, Jim Farley, as an "apostle of appeasement." Stevenson's long record of appeasement disqualifies him from leading the U.S. and the free nations in the fight against Communism.

PATRICK BEARY Jamaica, N.Y.

Sir: I read Stevenson's entire Chicago speech and excerpts from that speech in TIME, and I gather from the tone of that speech that Mr. Stevenson would be Mr. Khrushchev's choice for our next President. I was sickened to think that a man of his stature could say the things he did. I sincerely hope that the Democrats relegate him to obscurity.

C. PRES Grants, N. Mex.

Showing the Flagg Sir: In your June 6 issue, you state that James Montgomery Flagg's best-known picture was a World War I recruiting poster depicting Uncle Sam, black-browed with pointing finger, "demanding: I WANT YOU." In 1914 there was a recruiting poster in England depicting Lord Kitchener, black-browed, black-mustached and with pointing finger, with the caption YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU. This was before your time, probably, but I remember, and I imagine James M. Flagg did also. JOHN B. THOMPSON Grouville, Jersey, U. K.

So Sick of Sick Sir: It was with great relief that I read Alfred Kazin's profoundly meaningful and beautiful observations on today's theater and today's thinking [June 6]. He speaks for all of us who are sick, sick, sick of the degradation, the amorality, the absolute horror of the theater today and the stinking emotional climate which surrounds it. We are mostly sick of Tennessee Williams and those who trail gleefully after him. If man has nothing more to say about himself than that he is doomed--why bother? MURIEL MONTEKIO New York City Sir: The attack by Alfred Kazin is off the mark. All creative artists use exaggeration as a tool. This is as true of a Beethoven symphony as of the distorted figure of a Gothic saint as of the distorted pointing finger of Matthias Grunewald. The literary artist also by necessity must choose the exaggerated and often grisly side, especially the dramatist. Characters like incestuous Oedipus or child-murdering Medea are as "immoral" as the deplored modern ones, and so, for that matter, are Macbeth or Hamlet. FREDERICK P. BORNSTEIN El Paso

Sir: Mr. Kazin, alas, has grown "tired of love and love and love." In truth it seems Mr. Kazin has simply grown tired. When an established critic tires he falls to attacking live authors (Williams) and quoting dead authors (Mann). Mr. Kazin wants dramatists to reflect "the enlarged voice of our human possibilities." It has always seemed to me that Tennessee Williams has spent a good deal of time in his plays pointing out that this voice has been slashed at the vocal cords in today's world. We may expect to hear more of Mr. Kazin: speeches before the D.A.R. defending Eddie Guest, violent sallies in favor of Shakespeare and Melville, applauding letters in the columns of the Ladies' Home Journal, a pat on the back from Billy Graham, perhaps even a mention in Walter Winchell's column.

ROBERT A. BAYLOR Claremont, Calif.

Middle C Sir: Although you were careful enough to twice include in your article the middle name of the Philadelphia Orchestra's retiring flutist, William Morris Kincaid [June 6], you weren't careful enough to correctly spell his last name. It's Kincaid, not Kinkaid. I should know. I was a Kincaid pupil for five years.

JOHN SOLUM New York City

P: TIME was off key.--ED. Me Sir: From one TIME reader to all others, I'd like to be recorded as in complete agreement with your astute reviewer's perceptive opinion of the new off-Broadway musical Ernest in Love, especially in regard to the manner in which the Anne Croswell lyrics "graft smoothly onto the play as in a superbly haughty number called A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother." Like the "superbly haughty" Lady Bracknell, the famous Wildian character who sings this number, the "superbly haughty" actress (anonymous in your review) who essays this role is indeed herself a "very proper mother." She has two entirely legitimate teen-age children to prove it. Happily her handome son Josef and lovely daughter Francine know who their father is--me!

EZRA STONE Newtown, Pa.

P.S. Mrs. Stone is known professionally (and to my mother-in-law) as Sara Seegar. If TIME won't tell, I will.

P: And Reader Stone is well remembered as radio's onetime crack-voiced Henry Aldrich.--ED.

Sir: In reporting a Zanuck film, Crack in the Mirror, TIME'S critic wrote, "Justice, however, is not done in the screen credits, where Producer Zanuck, under the pseudonym, Mark Canfield, generously accepts full responsibility for the screenplay." Nor is justice done by TIME to the author of the novel, Drame dans un Miroir, on which the film is based. That is to say to me.

MARCEL HAEDRICH Paris

Burdens of History Sir: As a devout member of the Anglican Communion, I am profoundly shocked by the bias and misinformation in the June 6 article entitled "Two Miracles & 40 Saints." Granted that Roman Catholics were persecuted by members of my church in those days, this article seems to gloss over the fact that it was a terrible age when all religions persecuted all other religions e.g., Bloody Mary. FRANKLIN W. BARTLE Martinsville, NJ.

Sir: I don't want to play the numbers game with you, but the 360 British Roman Catholic martyrs from the year 1585 to 1680 can hardly compare with the 280 martyrs during the reign of Queen Mary (1553-1558). It is also pertinent to recall that the reasons the 200 persons were put to death during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth were not religious but political. Far more significant, however, is the difference between persecution by the churches of the Reformation and death for heresy. Thomas Cranmer protested against faith by compulsion, and there was a storm of protest in Protestant churches against Calvin's part in the burning of Servetus. We have to bear the burdens of our history but we also have to make distinctions. (THE REV.) JUNIUS J. MARTIN Christ Church, Frederica Saint Simons Island, Ga.

Sharp Distinction? Sir: Read your article on Theologian Baum's description of the new Protestantism (May 30). True, it is growing difficult to tell a Protestant from a Catholic. But one thing for sure: you can tell a Spirit-filled Christian from both Protestant or Catholic.

AUDREY SHANER Ellwood City, Pa.

Fender Sir: Regarding your May 30 picture of Attorney Tom Corcoran, I wish to call attention to the curious caption, "With the brass behind." Did Lawyer Corcoran develop his "brass behind" to fend off anti-Roosevelt Republicans, or what? No doubt, a guard against terrible chewings.

RICHARD P. ZAPPE Terre Haute, Ind.

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