The Impoverished & the Privileged
Sirs:
When Dorothy T. Pearse [TIME, Letters, July1] expresses sympathy for the hungry of Europe and grows impatient with delays on the British loan and on food relief, I agree with her. But when she says she feels "a sense of shame at being an American . . ." then I get mad.
Is she ashamed that her country, through progressive, intelligent industry has become the richest in the world? Is she ashamed of America because the nations of Europe, in contrast, have impoverished themselves through ignorance, intolerance, greed and...
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