Letters, Dec. 25, 1950

Man of the Year?

SIR:

IN A YEAR WHEN ALL STATESMEN, DIPLOMATS AND POLITICIANS FAILED AT PEACE, THERE IS BUT ONE MAN OF THE YEAR. HE IS THE SOLDIER IN KOREA, FIGHTING AND DYING FOR A SPIRITUAL GOAL IN A MATERIAL WORLD . . .

WILLIAM DAVIS

EVANSTON, ILL.

Sir:

This hurts me as much as it does you, but in the name of journalistic and historic objectivity, the man who literally is leading the world by its bloody nose—Joseph Stalin.

ALEXANDER MARCOV

Miami Beach, Fla.

Sir:

. . . Mao Tse-tung ... A repugnant choice, but . . . most newsworthy.

B. G. Hoos

Berlin, N.H.

Sir:

. . . Secretary of...

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