Letters: Sep. 6, 1968

Those Chicago Cops

Sir: Liberty and the Democratic Party died today on the streets of Chicago.

MR. AND MRS. MELVIN J. DAVID Encino, Calif.

Sir: The Gestapo has been reborn as blue-helmeted Chicago policemen.

PALMER B. RAWLEY JR. Albuquerque

Sir: The public beating of any man is a terrifying example of what must happen to individuals in the hands of the police. The glimpses of law and order we saw in Chicago must not be tolerated.

JAMES KANE Cleveland

Brutality and Hysteria

Sir: The invasion of Czechoslovakia [Aug. 30] further demonstrates the brutality and treachery of which...

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