Letters, Dec. 9, 1946

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May I suggest Justice Robert Jackson? In his speech at the opening of the Nürnberg trials he presented more clearly and forcefully than any other living person, the basic American concept that man must defend his fellow man against injustices. . . .

MARGARET K. BENTLEY

Jamestown, N.Y.

Agreement among Friends

Sirs: Your article on Quakerism [TIME, Nov. 18] is not only well researched and ably documented but it also caught the essentials of the Religious Society of Friends as a movement. Noteworthy is your reference to the Quaker method of conducting business. Not as well known as the meeting for worship, the meeting for business is original and unique. . . .

Particularly in the days when discussions about the veto bog down United Nations procedures, the Quaker method of getting "the sense of the meeting" by creatively weaving together majority and minority opinions into a "minute" acceptable to all might be used much more in government. . . .

RICHMOND P. MILLER

Field Secretary Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends Philadelphia

The Way We Go about It

Sirs:

Where is the traditional American courage? . . . When do we give the Four Freedoms to the oppressed of the world?

Can any other political system show the results we have attained since 1776? It isn't the result of our geographical location. Other parts of the world can reproduce our climate and have vast potential resources. It isn't the stock we came from. So it must be the way we go about it. So why accept "Two Worlds" and allow a totalitarian form of government to exist? . . .

I am a Southern Democrat by birth and I say our election returns are the healthiest sign in recent years. No one man nor group ot men should have too much power. Some namby-pamby writers have indicated that Russia must be carefully handled or she will withdraw from the United Nations. I say she has yet to prove her right to a place in the family of nations. Let her clean up her house and open the doors to the press and let her people hear both sides of every question.

C. W. DUNBAR Captain, A.C. Camp Beale, Cal.

Pro Biavatsky Sirs:

. . . One wonders that TIME'S Religion editor felt that the book Priestess of the Occult rated 2½columns of its valuable space [TIME, Nov. 11]. Gertrude Marvin Williams' book so obviously is written from a biased point of view that it will be surprising to many of her readers to discover that men of such proven intellectual caliber as Thomas Edison, Sir William Crookes, and Alfred Russell Wallace were members of The Theosophical Society. ... If we are not to class them as dupes, then their association with Madame Blavatsky would argue that the Williams portrait of her is something less than true. . . .

JAMES S. PERKINS

President

The Theosophical Society in America Wheaton, 111.

Arms & Frequencies Sirs: TIME and FORTUNE, in recent comment about reproduction of recorded music, have said disparagingly that Zenith's Cobra tone arm cuts out frequencies above 5,000 cycles, and have attributed a much finer quality of reproduction to a pickup ranging out to 12,000 cycles.