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SORRY TIME SHOT FROM THE HIP IN REPORTING MY INTERVIEW WITH GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK IN CHUNGKING [TIME, JUNE 11], HERE FACTS I FEEL TIME HONORBOUND TO PRINT IN CONTRADICTION YOUR SURMISE MY DISPATCH "ALL WRONG." FIRST, REGARDING AMBASSADOR HURLEY NOT HAVING BEEN CONSULTED IN ADVANCE ABOUT CENSORSHIP PROPOSAL. THIS HAS ALL THE IMPLICATIONS OF A TOMATO SURPRISE. FOR YOUR INFORMATION AMBASSADOR HURLEY, ON THE CONTRARY, WAS PRESENT THROUGHOUT DISCUSSION WITH GENERALISSIMO ABOUT CENSORSHIP. IF MR. HURLEY THOUGHT ANYTHING ABSURD HE DID NOT THINK SO UNTIL 24 HOURS LATER. OTHERWISE, OBVIOUSLY, HIS RESERVATIONS WOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN DISPATCH. SECOND, YOUR REFERENCE VICE MINISTER OF INFORMATION HOLLINGTON TONG AND ANY "MISUNDERSTANDING" IN CONTENTS DISPATCH. IT HAPPENS MR. TONG HIMSELF SERVED AS INTERPRETER FOR GENERALISSIMO IN THIS MEETING, WHICH IS A GOOD WAY TO KNOW WHAT GOES ON. THEN, AS THE CHIEF CHINESE GOVERNMENT CENSOR, MR. TONG PERSONALLY READ, CENSORED AND OFFICIALLY PASSED MY DISPATCH WHEN WRITTEN. CHIEF CENSORS DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS CARELESSLY IN CHINA. . . .
HENRY J. TAYLOR
San Francisco
¶ Let Correspondent Taylor note that, despite his "intervention," China's censorship situation is unchanged. Says Hollington Tong: "I did not censor facts. It is not my part to question whether facts are correctly reported or not as long as the censorship regulations concerning security are observed. It is not my job to edit copy."—ED.
Gratified Canadian
Sirs:
I couldn't resist the urge to tell you how much I appreciate TIME. Your two pages of Canada at War makes my Canadian heart swell with pride. Too long, in my estimation, have the Canadian people hid their light under a bushel, and it has taken an American magazine to tell the world what they have been doing. As a Canadian, thanks.
J. E. MINER Comber, Ont.
The Right Rose
Sirs:
For three weeks TIME persists in error. While the overwhelming number of American and British newspapers label the Wehrmacht Chief of Staff as Colonel General Gustav Jodl, TIME [May 14] exclusively calls him Alfred. His wife (according to published reports) says it's Gustav.
A rose by any other name would smell, but let's get this stinker right.
WILLIAM P. MOLONEY Lieutenant (j.g.) U.S.N.R.
% Fleet Post Office
New York City
¶ TIME has him right, according to the German Army list, which SHAEF accepts as official. SHAEF cannot understand how he came to be called Gustav, thinks it may be one of his middle names.—ED.
Pin-Up General
Sirs:
Allow me to nominate your cover of June 4 as the nicest of the year. Surely General Wedemeyer must be an unusual man to have such a face: a little amused, a little shy, extremely intelligent, altogether likable. Marvelous eyes.
If I were the pin-up type, I'd have this photograph of him ahead of Gable—or even General MacArthur.
(MRS.) J. V. COOKE
Denver