Letters: Sep. 20, 1968

The Shock of Chicago

Sir: As a young historian born during World War II, I had never really been able to form a mental picture of the way the Nazi storm troopers came to power in Hitler's Germany. After watching the scenes of the brutal attacks by the Chicago police on the peace demonstrators, I think I know what that tyranny must have been like. Mayor Daley's inhuman repression was a blot on the fabric of human dignity. Daley for anti-Man of the Year.

HUGH B. HAMMETT

Charlottesville, Va.

Sir: My husband and I were...

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