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Overseas, Stars & Stripes (Mediterranean), which has had considerable distribution among English-reading civilians in North Africa. Italy and Eastern Europe, has established a reputation for accurate and objective reporting which, if it could be continued in the postwar period, would serve enormously to encourage a free press in Europe and to present world news in an honest and unbiased way and from an American point of view. Should not some way be found to preserve these values?
Might not an enterprising publisher be permitted to buy these properties from the Government and carry them on along properly modified civilian lines? . . .
EGBERT WHITE
New York City
Charity?
Sirs:
. . . Had I known the Lend-Lease food was regarded as charity I would not have touched a mouthful nor given any to my children and from now on they can go without orange juice as I shall go without all American foods.
If this has really been intended as a blow at our Socialist Government, as blows were dealt at European Socialist Governments in 1919, do not think it will have the effect intended. As Mr. Churchill once said, "What kind of a people do you think we are?" . . .
This sudden revelation ... has disgusted, angered and saddened me. Not for any food I shall lose, but to think the commodities sent have been sent in such a spirit, and withdrawn with such delighted glee. . . . Well, now we know where we are—I hope you feel happy with all your food—keep it.
(MRS.) KATHLEEN SPOONER
Amersham Bucks, England
Where Was Cherepanov's Soul?
Sirs:
In TIME [Aug. 27] Mr, Harry D. Radcliff is puzzled about the location of Private Cherepanov's soul after he was temporarily dead.
His confusion on the subject comes from the popular but mistaken idea that the soul is immortal, and is detached from the body at death, and survives as a separate living entity. Moses corrected this false idea centuries ago when he wrote: The life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11). The blood is in the body and the life is in the blood; not in a bloodless entity detached from the body, in life and in death. . . .
ROBERT G. HUGGINS
Cleveland
Sirs:
. . . It was right there with the body and would have continued there had the man been dead for a month. It is both unscientific and unscriptural to say the soul leaves the body at any time. Two scriptural examples: Lazarus had been dead four days. Decomposition had set in. When Jesus raised him He said, "Lazarus come forth," and Lazarus came forth with no account of anything unusual having occurred. . . . How about his soul? Lazarus was the soul himself. When Lazarus was dead his soul was also dead ("asleep" the Bible calls it). Also the young man whose funeral Jesus broke up. He stopped the coffin and said, "Young man, I say unto thee arise." The young man arose and his sleeping soul arose with him. . . .
WARREN LATHAM
Spokane, Wash.
Sirs:
. . . Charles Dickens, in chapter 3, vol. 2 of Our Mutual Friend asks the same question. Rogue Riderhood, apparently drowned, is in the hands of the physicians. Dickens comments: