Letters, Sep. 10, 1956

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I DID NOT NOTICE ANOTHER STATEMENT, WHICH APPEARS IN ANOTHER STORY, CHARGING CERTAIN ACTIONS ON MY PART IN CONNECTION WITH THE MISSOURI DELEGATION AND AFFECTING SENATOR KENNEDY. I NEVER TALKED OR YELLED TO SPEAKER RAYBURN ABOUT MISSOURI. I DID ABOUT KENTUCKY. YOU WILL NOTE THAT KENTUCKY SHIFTED TO KENNEDY.

JOHN W. MCCORMACK

CHAIRMAN

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM COMMITTEE

BOSTON

^ Having relied on a secondhand report, TIME must accept Reader Griffin's firsthand version of his talk with Chairman McCormack. But on the Missouri matter TIME'S own correspondents stand by their story.—ED.

Canal Crisis

Sir:

Thank you for your long, detailed Aug. 27 description of Nasser. He is banking on the theory that the West is too busy with the Communists to bother with him right now, and that the Communists will help him along just to make trouble for the West. Perhaps he thought he would be appeased as was Hitler. I hope hindsight has taught us to the contrary.

RALPH M. FREYDBERG JR. New York City

Sir:

Reading your report one has the impression of reading a propaganda leaflet from the British government. As long as Egyptians pay for nationalized property and keep the canal open there is no reason for TIME to jump on the Egyptian neck.

MITCHELL STACHEA Beverly Hills, Calif.

Sir:

The solution is for all non-Egyptian shipping lines to boycott the canal until such time as Nasser's high horse collapses from the lack of financial nutrition.

ED ROTHMAN Scranton, Pa.

Sir:

Nasser's nationalization comes as a much-needed sock in the jaw for the West. We are still laughing over your "astutely timed" and "gambit that took away the breath of the professionals" in describing Dulles' withdrawal of aid for Aswan Dam.

V. V. L. N. RAO

Secunderabad, India

Sir:

Nasser doesn't exactly look the role, but acts like an overgrown Flattop's boy in regretting a murder.

LEONARD STEWART Houston

Sir:

The reaction against Nasser proved how right the U.S. State Department was in not putting up the immense amount of money needed for the Aswan Dam. The eye-for-an-eye policy will only lead to trouble with partners. It is high time for Nasser to learn that what makes a friend is never blackmail.

H. J. BAIDEUMANN Soerabaja, Java

Retarded Children

Sir:

Thank you for your Aug. 13 report on these children. These innocent ones in years past have been the butt of jokes of radio and TV entertainers, with their references to "little pointed heads" and "little moron" stories. Now we hope there is a new future awaiting these children, and parents need no longer have shame added to their sorrow.

ROBERT J. AMBROSE Muskegon Association for Retarded Children Muskegon, Mich.

Sir:

A big vote of gratitude for a well-done article on a subject on which there has been an appalling lack of information. I know, for it took us painfully long weeks and months after our Mongoloid baby was born to learn the facts you presented so well.

N. W. SWAN SON Indianapolis

The Winner

Sir: