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What this country needs is a good five-cent psychiatrist.
THOMAS H. JOYCE Los Angeles, Calif.
Both Sides
Sirs:
Even the reporting of my very favorite newspaper ... did not cover the labor situation as impartially as you have done. . Congratulations for being able to see both sides at the same time.
GAIL MUDGETT
Concord, Calif.
Still More Galling
Sirs:
"Proletarians, you have nothing to lose but your chains." This battle cry of Red leaders can now be amended, and made to conform with Soviet developments in the last 20 years, with the following supplement: "And nothing to gain but a still more galling chain."
OSCAR OSTLUND Clearfield, Pa.
Sirs:
I have watched with apprehension the rapidly developing movement in the nation, if not to destroy the Communist Party of America, then to open it for effective action by putting Mr. Earl Browder in durance vile. .
If the Communist Party is destroyed we thereby rid ourselves of the one real society in restraint of revolution just as surely as removing toxins from the body would wipe out antitoxins. I know of nothing that promotes a greater satisfaction with the U.S Constitution and its guarantees than listening to the long-range dialecticians of the Kremlin whose thinking is usually conditioned by the amount of static on their short-wave receiving sets. . . .
Louis WEITZENKORN
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Smack, Pat
Sirs :
I think TIME is completely detestable because it is vulgar, prurient, provincial, snobbish, middleclass, self-righteous, dictatorial and phony. . . .
THOMAS JAMES MERTON St. Bonaventure, N.Y.
Sirs:
As a consistent reader of TIME who firmly believes and adheres to democratic principles, I wish to commend your magazine for its impartial point of view in discussing controversial issues involving social, political, and economic questions. . . .
WILLIAM McNuLTY Balboa, C.Z.
Hale Roosevelt
Sirs:
Regarding Captain James Roosevelt being called to active duty: My impression was that physical requirements were strict. Surely an officer with a peptic ulcer so severe it required surgery (gastroenterostomy, I believe) at Mayo's could not pass a physical?
Perhaps it is just sour grapes on my part, but I was rejected for active duty when my National Guard unit was inducted, because I had pleural effusion back in 1927.
I was just wondering why some people get all the breaks.
MAJOR C. A. PREUSS, M.C. Santa Barbara, Calif.
—> Captain Roosevelt's stomach ulcer operation was completely successful, and he is quite up to physical par for Navy duty. A Mayo physician who checked up in June 1939—nine months after the operation—found he had gained 12½ lb., pronounced him in excellent health, said: "The results of the operation have exceeded our most optimistic expectations."—ED.
How to Do It
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