Letters: Sep. 8, 1961

Lock & Chain

Sir:

Your grim story of life under Socialism Communism in East Germany [Aug. 25] should be reprinted weekly and distributed to every American to read. Nonsubscribers have missed a strong reminder of what the free world faces.

Better our own system of individual private initiative, even with occasional inequities, than life as a "dreary procession of rules and slogans that dragoon the mind as well as body," with pictures of dictators looking from walls, and the "ever present aura of fear.''

O. O. WISWELL, M.D. Hollywood, Fla.

Sir:

Who else but...

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