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In 81 missions we lost one crew—after we had arrived at the right way to use the B26. . . .
I am not trying to take any credit away from the boys in England, because we are proud of them as we trained a great many of those crews. But I do think we deserve the credit for proving the B-26 a great combat airplane. And we are gratified to see the Marauder, at long last, get the recognition she deserves.
MILES L. GLAZNER Lieutenant, A.A.F. Barksdale Field, La.
> The B-26 performed well in the Southwest Pacific, better still in Africa. But it required large-scale operation in the vast operation from England to take the last tarnish off "The Flying Prostitute."—ED.
How Now?
Sirs: Talk about Rex Stout's reporting. In his letter published in your issue of Jan. 24, Mr.
Stout wrote: "Germans like Paul Wohl and Prince Lowenstein start a campaign (in the New York Herald Tribune) to put over Erwin Bumke as a 'good' German with whom we could deal in confidence." [Author Stout also said: "In the anatomy of the German rattlesnake, the rantings of Hitler are merely the rattle; it is men like Bumke . . . who share their views and their disease, that carry the deadly poison of Pan-Germanism."—ED.]
I have not seen Prince Lowenstein since 1936 when he briefly called on me in Paris. I disagree with almost everything he said about Erwin Bumke in his letter to the Herald Tribune—and so wrote him. . . .
... I have no connection whatever with any German group, and have tried to avoid even personal contact with Germans for the last five years—not as a matter of principle, but as a matter of taste. . . .
PAUL WOHL
New York City
Tarawa Typewriter
Sirs:
Just read . . . "Best-Covered Story" by Robert Sherrod [TIME, Dec. 13]. He says reporters "never try to rush onto a beachhead typewriter in hand." I wonder where Richard Johnston got his?
The last time I saw Mr. Johnston [at Tarawa] he was pecking away on what I'm sure was a portable. Of course, the way things were at that time I could have been mistaken, maybe he was playing a piano. . . .
KENNETH J. PAGAN ist Lieutenant, U.S.M.C. Corpus Christi, Tex.
> U.P. Correspondent Johnston's featherweight Swiss portable was the exception that proved the beachhead rule.—ED.
To Know the World
Sirs:
Regarding your decision to increase Canadian news coverage, may I be allowed a word of congratulation. Canada is not an important country, terrestrially speaking, but economically and politically the destinies of our two countries are bound to become increasingly interwoven. Therefore it is essential that we understand each other. These bitter days were in a large measure induced by insularity, by the failure of supposedly adult nations to know the world and the peoples therein—their ideals, their culture, their hopes and dreams.