Predatory Animal
Sirs:
Let me congratulate you on TIME'S handling of news every week, but especially on your article, "A Dictator's Hour." It is difficult to discuss Hitler in a calm voice, but your story is a big help to those that remember he is a human and that it took a world of human folly to make his present position possible. . . .
LEWIS W. MILLER
Dickinson, Tex.
Sirs:
Herewith phiz of the predatory animal (slightly doctored) shown on the Saturday Evening Post cover April 19, superimposed on shoulders of predatory animal shown on TIME cover April 14. . . .
EL. L. KAY Hamilton, Ohio
Sirs:
I'm in favor of returning Adolf Hitler to his proper handle, Adolf Schickelgruber. I think it would do a great deal, psychologically, to promote his bursting a blood vessel. Mr. Schickelgruber, reputedly a man whose inspirations are born of his emotions, might even be prodded to stick his neck out prematurely and thereby advance the conclusion of the current world inferno. "Heil Schickelgruber" certainly has a more deflating, if prolonged, sound than "Heil Hitler," and I venture it would mess up the little man's digestive processes no little. . . .
HARRY BUTTON
Los Angeles, Calif.
>Alois Schickelgruber, Adolf's father, changed his name to Hitler eleven years before Adolf was born.—ED.
Skipping Pulse
Sirs:
Congratulations on publishing Mr. Lippmann's and Mr. Kent's comments on our present need for leadership in TIME, April 28. By so doing TIME has again noticed a vital skip in the pulse of the general welfare of our nation.
In the opinion of this reader our President has proved his capacity in getting a job. If he now is only half so capable in doing the work he will be a truly remarkable President.
G. E. WILLIAMS JR.
New Orleans, La.
Sirs:
You ought to be ashamed of the article entitled "War and Peace" in TIME, April 28, belittling as it does the honest and growing conviction of the majority of the country that "Aid short of war" is becoming "War short of men" and will end up with "Men short of legs, arms, and lives" and the U.S. "short of Democracy." . . .
BRADLEY E. STAFFORD Springfield, Mass.
Sirs: . . . F.D.R. ran on a help-Britain, antiwar platform. Since the election he has pushed the help-Britain part of the program to the limit. One more step and we will tumble by sheer weight of gravity into the war. But if we don't take that step—convoying—the war is certain to be lost. . . .
DAN Ross
Clarksville, Tenn.
Sirs:
Here is a vote in approval of the foreign policy of President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull. . . .
VIRGINIA P. PEERY
Los Angeles, Calif.
Sirs:
I reckon I'm about as close to cracker-barrel talk as the next one. I run a service station on Los Angeles' industrial southeast side. Washington is about half right when they say the talk is all isolation, defeatism and apathy. It's mainly apathy to Washington's foreign policy. . . .
JOHN ANDERSON
Los Angeles, Calif.
Sirs: