Letters, Apr. 8, 1946

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As one humbly proud both of being a Catholic and of my Scottish blood, I deplore the disservice your correspondent, the Rev. Donald MacLeod, does to that honorable name in the March 11 issue. . . . His contemptuous "tin horns" of Catholicism is only to be answered by the response, "Shame!" Were he a layman I should reply, "The back-of me hand to you!"

His charge of pro-Catholic against TIME is amusing to me because as a regular reader over a period of six years, my own impression has been that TIME was often close to anti-Catholic.

Wilmington WALTER E. F. SMITH

Sirs:

The Rev. Donald MacLeod's letter entitled "Red Hats, Tin Horns" reminds me of the story of the Irishman, who, when his friend asked him if he had joined the Protestant Church on losing his faith in the Catholic, rejoined: "Begorra, I might have lost my faith, but I haven't lost my head."

... M. C. BUCKLEY

Waterbury, Conn.

Churchill's Speeches

Sirs:

Mr. Churchill's stirring addresses in Missouri and in Richmond, Va. [TIME, March 18], might very well be called a high point in understanding of the mission and responsibility of the English-speaking nations of the world; also, of a deep responsibility which a tradition carrying on from the Magna Carta to the Atlantic Charter demands. When you listened to the deep, well-known dramatic voice of "Old Winnie," you could not miss being deeply moved. . . .

ERNEST NATHAN West Warwick, R.I.

Sirs:

In your current issue you comment as follows concerning Mr. Churchill's speech:

"While the Wall Street Journal thought it brilliant, with a 'hard core of indisputable fact,' . . ."

The words you quote appeared in a contribution on the editorial page by Mr. William Henry Chamberlin, and I think it must be clear that Mr. Chamberlin was expressing his own opinion and not the opinion of the Wall Street Journal. . . . The editorial position of the Watt Street Journal on Mr. Churchill's speech is quite opposite from what you have represented it. ...

W. H. GRIMES

Editor

Wall Street Journal New York City

When Churchill Met Stalin

Sirs:

TIME'S [March 18] alteration of history has me fascinated. Referring to Churchill, you state: ". . . the man who had conferred with Stalin at Moscow, Cairo, and Yalta."

... I never believed Teheran would be dropped from history, nor that the invitation list to the Cairo conference would be posthumously revised to include Premier Stalin.

(T/5) BERNARD C. COHEN Camp Hood, Tex.

TIME blushes, thanks Reader Cohen, sends a memo to Clio.—ED.

Unweary, Unbeaming Londoners Sirs:

Having read your articles on Great Britain [TIME, March 4], we cannot avoid feeling that it is necessary to correct your apparent misinformation. . . .

We are not weary—except when it is time to go to bed, and not always then. . . . We no more "beam" at the Royal Family than you at the President. None of us has heard of squirrel pie—and as for eating it!

British courtesy has not cracked. London's "cheerful cockney" still exists and always will, as long as London stands. . . .