Letters, may 30, 1955

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SIR:

. . . THE UNIDENTIFIED DEMILLE "COWORKER" IMMEDIATELY BESIDE ME IN YOUR MAY 9 PICTURE IS THE ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER,

DR. GAETANO MARTINO . . . BEHIND MISS ANNE BAXTER IS MRS. MARTINO. IT WOULD BE AN

HONOR TO HAVE THEM AS "COWORKERS" ;HOWEVER, THE FOREIGN MINISTER HAS NOT YET SIGNED A PARAMOUNT CONTRACT, NOR IS IT LIKELY THAT WE COULD DIVERT HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES FROM THE MOMENTOUS AREAS IN WHICH HE NOW MAKES HIS CONTRIBUTION TOWARD WORLD PEACE.

CECIL B. DEMILLE

HOLLYWOOD

Sir:

I just saw the piece you wrote about Cecil and myself. You were very kind, and I appreciate it ...

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

Los Angeles

Overcrowding

Sir:

Why do you frequently give space to beating the Roman Catholic Church over the head for deluded reasons? Every time the world's population goes up beyond the point TIME finds bearable, the church is to blame . . . Catholicism is always the butt for those lovers of mankind who want to save the human race by eliminating people . . . Now I see TIME gives a pulpit to one of the field marshals in the van of such homophiles: William Vogt. His letter of May 9 raises the profession of anti-Catholicism to the virulent heights of people-hating achieved earlier by the anti-Semites.

BLAIR BOLLES Paris

Sin & Sweden (Contd.)

Sir: What sort of nation will we have to deal with when this generation of young Swedes grows up and takes over the affairs of their country? ... It seems to me that sex is running amuck with the human race everywhere these days . . . Just think what a happier world it would be if young people could marry for mental affinity without the excessive pressure of "body urges." Sex is really a very selfish urge, and sexual satisfaction can become an intense craving—it is the devil's playground, and I really think the world would be a finer place without it MRS. JOAN JONKER-FISKE Riversdale, Cape Province, South Africa