Letters, Feb. 23, 1942

March of Ickes

Sirs:

Thanks for the credit line in your report, "Blimp Fleet" (TIME, Jan. 19). Next to having Hitler say that he hates me for it, I get the biggest bang out of your admission that I have been right, even if only once. Ickes Marches On!

HAROLD L. ICKES

Secretary of the Interior

Washington, D.C.

¶To Secretary Ickes—let him march with a will!—TIME gave credit for killing a proposed sale of U.S. helium to Germans in 1938. The U.S. has the world's only available supply.—ED.

Bribes v. Pensions

Sirs:

. . . Since when does Democracy depend for its life blood on bribery ?

Since...

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