Nominations

Sir:

So Senator Jack Kennedy thinks President Eisenhower should have apologized to Khrushchev at the summit meeting. God pity America if Kennedy should ever become President.

ARTHUR B. TAYLOR

Clearwater, Fla.

Sir:

Kennedy is the only campaigning, fighting, dynamic, winning candidate running for the Democratic Party.

WILLIAM P. CONNOLLY

Dwight, Ill.

Sir:

It is difficult to understand why the Democratic Party would even consider a young man so inexperienced as Senator Kennedy when it has available so able and experienced a man as Senator Lyndon Johnson.

E. D. MCCAIN

Frederick, Md.

Sir:

Readers Rita and Francis Troilo suggest that, as a devout Catholic, Kennedy would be an enemy of Communism. Would one dare to suggest that it can be presumed that Castro was also a "good Catholic" in his earlier days--and may still claim to be? What an enemy of Communism he is!

G. JAMES

Unadilla, N.Y.

Sir:

As a clergyman of the Reformed faith, I am getting sick of Jack Kennedy's running for President as a Roman Catholic. Why don't we let the gentleman run as an American and let him win or be defeated on his ability as a loyal American ?

If, as Rita and Francis Troilo suggested in the June 20 issue, he should be elected because he is a Catholic and Catholicism is against Communism, we could ask some serious questions as to whether or not it was because Catholicism was against Communism that Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary all fell into the Communist camp. And we might even suggest that within the shadow of the Holy See one of the largest political parties is Communism.

Let's elect him or defeat him for what he can do for his country, not necessarily what he can or should do against Communism.

(THE REV.) R. C. DUNKELBERGER

First Presbyterian Church

Sturgis, Mich.

Sir:

Protestants and Catholics alike will vote for Nixon, not because he is a devout Protestant, but because he is a great statesman and has already ''stood up to Moscow."

(THE REV.) J. E. HENDERSON

First Methodist Church

Ashtabula, Ohio

Sir:

Perhaps, in electing a President whom the Russians have declared that they cannot negotiate with, we would be arrogantly denying that we cared what the rest of the world thought of us, but aren't the times rather perilous to be flaunting our obstinacy?

SUSAN BALTIN Philadelphia

Lodge Brothers

Sir:

Is it not true that all Presidents of the United States heretofore have been Masons?

I have belonged to the order for the greater part of my 82 years.

W. H. PABKE

Quebec

P: No. But Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, Taft, Harding, both Roosevelts and Truman were.--ED.

The Garden Tomb

Sir:

Readers of your article about the Church of the Holy Sepulchre [June 13] might be interested to know of a place "outside the walls" of Jerusalem called the Garden Tomb. Unspoiled by crumbling masonry and sectarian feuds, it is an impressive site, especially since many archaeologists now consider it to be the real scene of Christ's crucifixion, burial and resurrection. Many tourists disappointed by the situation you described at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are deeply stirred by this entirely natural spot.

LAURANCE BOWEN JR.

Philadelphia

Turbulence in Tokyo

Sir:

Typical of the ineptness shown by American foreign affairs experts was their continued advice that the President should not postpone his visit to Tokyo. The same advice was given by Ambassador MacArthur. The experts reasoned that pro-American elements in Japan would prevail and the President could be assured at least a reasonably cordial welcome. However, one wonders what those same experts meant when they hoped that the Japanese police would take firmer action. Are we to presume they meant that the police should open fire on the mob in order that the itinerary of a globe-trotting head of state would not be upset ?

JOSEPH GALLAHER

Hamilton, Ont.

Sir:

Americans everywhere should realize, I think, that Mr. Kishi's government canceled the visit of President Eisenhower solely out of concern for the President's wellbeing.

A prominent Japanese friend of mine apologized to me, as a citizen of the U.S., for the cancellation. No apology was necessary. On the contrary, the Japanese authorities should be commended for sparing our President what might have been an unpleasant experience, and for wisely rejecting the only possible alternative! repression of the demonstrators during his visit.

REX WHITNACK

Tokyo

Sir:

What we should be saying--making evident and rubbing it in--is that Japan has lost face. Japan stands revealed to the world as a nation that cannot receive the visiting head of another state with courtesy and hospitality, a nation that cannot keep order in its own house, whose children take foreign money to disgrace their country and their parents, and whose opposition politicians are more interested in temporary party advantage than in the reputation of their country. Let the 93 million Japanese see themselves in that light reflected in the eyes of the world.

DOROTHY E. CURTIS

Peoria, Ill.

Sir:

I'm a girl of Japanese. I'm very much afraid that owing regretful incident Americans hate and don't wish to shake hand with the Japanese. But please understand that we are never anti-Americans. Because of this point, we want President Eisenhower will visit to Japan at more suitable time.

Though my English is bad, please try to get what I and most Japanese think.

SHIZUE OKADA

Urawa-Shi, Japan

Sir:

A couple more diplomatic blunders like the ones we made this past month, and it will be Iron Curtain for US as a world power. We're already not treated as one. After Ike's recent successes, I begin to agree that the best course for him to take is the golf course, after all. For the fondest hope this Administration can cherish is that history will judge it by its score rather than on its record.

FELIX ANSELM

Madison, Wis.

Sir:

Ike's bearing and his demeanor during the recent and current debacles of the summit blowup and the furor in Japan recall to many a U.S. heart, I am sure, a sentiment that Confucius approvingly ascribes to his pupil Tseng Ts'an: "In a moment of crisis he remains unshaken: Is such a man a Great Man? He is."

RONALD W. BREEDEN

Akron

No Jinx

Sir:

Nobody can say that Arnold Palmer's appearance on TIME'S cover [May 2] interrupted his progress--no jinx this time.

FINBAN SLATTERY

Killarney, Ireland

Hot Slivers

Sir:

I am not writing in the spirit of disappointment. Speaking for Betty Comden, my collaborator on the book and lyrics of Bells Are Ringing, and Jule Styne, our composer-collaborator, I can truthfully say that we are generally pleased with your highly favorable notice of the movie version of our show.

However, there are several phrases which had the effect on us, while reading them, of sitting down to a delightfully relaxing manicure occasionally punctuated by hot bamboo slivers driven up the nails. The phrase in question is (referring to the score) ". some fairly forgettable tunes."

Two of these fairly forgettable tunes are called Just in Time and The Party's Over, and I can truthfully state that we are not only proud of them, but they are also two of the best-known and most successful songs to have emerged from the score of a Broadway show within the past decade. In an astonishingly short time they have both become "standards."

Gentlemen, I rest my case and trust in your sense of honor to reveal these ugly facts to your readers.

ADOLPH GREEN

New York City

Diagnosis

Sir:

I wish to compliment you on the excellent article, "Where Are Tomorrow's Doctors?", which appeared in your June 20 issue.

BERNARD L. ALBERT, M.D.

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I'm saving my copy to show patients who wonder, "Why can't I find a doctor who'll make house calls?" TIME gave a most comprehensive answer with more unbiased facts than the public usually gets on problems concerning medical personnel.

MARY McCov, R.N.

Milwaukee

Truth & the Archbishop

Sir:

Re your June 20 story about Archbishop Ritter's declaring that no Roman Catholic student may attend a non-Catholic institution unless written permission is obtained from the archdiocese: to this I say hogwash ! To imply that Catholic educational institutions alone possess and dispense truth is tantamount to admitting "fear of truth."

ROBERT A. LINZMEYER

Psychology Instructor

St. John's University

Jamaica, N.Y.

Sir:

The reasons for Archbishop Ritter's letter are obvious to any non-Catholic who has ever attended a Catholic college. All courses in which it is possible to do so are distorted to favor the Roman Catholic point of view. In a secular college a Catholic student would get other perspectives. He might even lose some of that blind, unswerving faith which the Catholic Church demands.

HARVEY SACHS

Philadelphia

Sir:

As a Roman Catholic who has attended and taught at Catholic and secular universities, I wish to thank you for printing Dom Aelred Graham's corrective.

Catholic colleges and universities are a fact of American higher education. But it is also a fact, about which some of them are concerned, that their graduates exert a disproportionately small influence on American intellectual life. This suggests that there is something wrong with most Catholic colleges. Archbishop Ritter has unwittingly pointed to what it is.

Catholic colleges too frequently regard themselves as primarily the inculcators of theological dogmas, moral precepts, and what is in effect a dogmatic philosophy. Too many of the windows of their intellectual world are shuttered. And Catholic young people who are seriously interested in the pursuit of knowledge, truth, and intellectual excellence will turn to the good secular colleges and universities.

J. M. HAAS

Dayton

Sir:

How Dom Aelred misconstrues. Indeed, Holy Mother Church has nothing to fear from the truth. However, all men have plenty to fear from some of the hokum taught on secular campuses. Far more important is what the Catholic misses when not attending a Catholic college. A "Catholic mind" embraces far more than "the simplicities of faith learned in childhood."

(THE REV.) JOHN M. BREUNIG

Chaplain,

Newman Center

Chapel Hill, N.C.

Toned Sterns

Sir:

In your June 13 issue I find one of the quips with which I amuse myself and my readers credited as coming from a nudist magazine. And when you see your own words coming back to you out of your favorite magazine, it is quite a shock.

The quip appeared in our issue of May 31, 1956, and read: "You never know where you will find perfectionists. Take the nudist camp --started by a group of sun bathers who, in their search for a perfect tan, were determined to leave no stern untoned."

Our 1,000 subscribers will be happy to let these priceless pearls be shared with your millions of readers, provided that the town of Concrete receives attendant publicity. As for myself, I will try to bleed quietly until the wound heals.

CHARLES M. DWELLEY

Editor

Concrete Herald

Concrete, Wash.

Sir:

This was a direct quotation or plagiarism from Ogden Nash's "Everybody's Mind to Me a Kingdom Is or A Great Big Wonderful World It's":

. . . I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at sea birds I leave no tern unstoned, I am a meticulous man and when I portray baboons I leave no stern untoned . . .

J. T. P. BIJHOUWER

Bennekom, The Netherlands

P: And now a Concrete stern seems tanned. Ogden Nash's version was published in 1953.--ED.

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