Interesting Question
Sir: How could TIME swallow Irving Howe's contention [Dec. 14] that the relationship between man 'master' and woman 'chattel' ". . . is perhaps the only such relationship in human history where the 'masters' sent themselves and their sons to die in wars while trying to spare their 'chattels' "?
On the contrary, oppressed groups are rarely permitted to pick up the weapons of war. Hitler did not send the Jews to fight and die on the Russian front. Most black Americans spent that war digging latrines, cooking, waiting on mess tables...
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