Toward Peace
Sirs:
Your new department International . . . is a progressive step toward our future. So much of life outside the U.S. has been classified as "Foreign News" that it seems only a war can bring us toward something international. Let us pray that the secret of peace lies in that great word, international.
(CPL.) RICHARD D. GOOD U.S. Naval Hospital New River, N.C.
Orthodox Joe Stalin
Sirs:
"So Stalin went to a Jesuit seminary . . ." (TIME, Feb. 5). The Georgian Seminary at Tiflis, which was attended by Stalin, was neither Jesuit nor even Roman Catholic, but was, like the people of Georgia, Greek Orthodox.
JAMES M. ROSBROW Wilmington, Del.
Sirs:
Joe Stalin never saw the inside of a Jesuit Seminary. In fact, TIME, I'll bet that Joe has never seen a Jesuit. . . .
(ART 2/c) J.L.KIRCH % Fleet Post Office San Francisco
Sirs:
. . . Where do the Jesuits come in? It is bad enough to have had something to do with the early training of Voltaire. Stalin? No, thanks.
ANDREW C. SMITH
Society of Jesus Spring Hill, Ala.
Baptist Anathemas
Sirs:
Anathemas upon you for your ironical description of Mr. Rockefeller as "a Baptist by birth but a Christian by conviction" (TIME, Feb. 12).
... A man must profess to be "a Christian by conviction" before he can ever be admitted to membership in a Baptist church.
God alone is wise enough to draw the line between an actual and a nominal Christian.
Who gave your fatheaded religious editor the ecclesiastical sapience to do so? ...
(REV.) B.P. MARTIN Sturgis Baptist Church Sturgis, Miss. ¶TIME 's Religious editor turns the other cheek to Reader Martin and inquires, with no irony, what church the Founder of Christianity belonged to?—ED.
Scalptress
Sirs:
Being not vain,
I've no quarrel with the Sculptress
Katie Ward Lane,
In her choice of the nation's ten
Handsomest men.*
But . . . why should she turn Scalptress
And knife all us others
Less favored by fate than our
Ten Handsome Brothers?
We "most men" are aware We don't rate with Adonis But we don't like the bare Fact shoved rudely upon us.
It's her brushing
Us off with that "five-second glance"
That has us all blushing
Clear down to our pants.
A lady who'd so stick her neck out Must be, on her own, quite a deck-out. . . .
Is she Myrna Loy? Garbo? Lamour? Baby Snooks? Please print Katie's picture. Let's see how she looks!
PAUL ZEMMER Jackson, Tenn.
¶Herewith a photograph of Sculptress Lane, 46, unmarried.—ED.
Draft Nurses?
Sirs:
I do not seek to minimize the need for Army and Navy nurses (TIME, Jan. 15), but do defend the civilian nurse and I believe you unjustly criticize her—"Few nurses raised their hands for any kind of military service. . . ."
I'm sure thousands of nurses would have "raised their hands" ... if they were not made to feel so urgently needed in their present positions. . . .