Yugoslav Heretic
Sir:
. . . Mr. Ed Clark, your correspondent in Belgrade, came to see me for an interview. I told him that I had nothing further to add than had already been published in the London Times . . . Mr. Clark's interview, as reported in your story [Jan. 10], repeats statements made by me in the London Times, but also [makes] statements which I did not make.
VLADIMIR DEDIJER Belgrade, Yugoslavia
¶ TIME Correspondent Ed Clark, who has known Dedijer since wartime days, stands by his interview, but understands why Dedijer (since given six months suspended sentence for "a criminal act of hostile propaganda") did not.—ED.
The Upper Colorado
SIR:
HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING THE FIRST MAGAZINE OF NATIONAL CIRCULATION WILLING AND INTERESTED ENOUGH TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT [JAN. 31]. YOUR FACTS STAND OUT IN BOLD CONTRAST TO THE EMOTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION SPREAD AROUND THE COUNTRY BY THE PSEUDO-CONSERVATIONISTS AND WATER-GREEDY CALIFORNIA INTERESTS.
WILLIAM B. SMART DESERET "NEWS-TELEGRAM" SALT LAKE CITY
Atheism on the Air
Sir:
Three cheers for Mrs. Margaret Knight and her BBC trilogy on scientific humanism and "Morals Without Religion" [TIME, Jan. 24]. A breath of humanistic fresh air would do a world of good in our country, where the traditional orthodoxies have made a farce of morality . . .
EDD DOERR Indianapolis
Sir:
. . . No doubt, Mrs. Knight must belong to the school that believes our ancestors were apes (if Christ is a legend, what else can you believe?), that our world came into being from revolving gaseous matter. Now if she could explain who put the swirling gas into existence, I might discover a grain of truth in her fantastic statements.
EDWARD W. VERBA Campbell, Ohio
Sir:
... I don't criticize the BBC for carrying Mrs. Knight's broadcasts, for she has a right to say what she will. Christianity has survived far worse dangers, and if she gives us an incentive to defend our faith, so much the better.
MARY MURPHY Indianapolis
The Case of Leo Frank
Sir:
Re the lynching of Leo Frank, as recounted in your Jan. 24 story, "A Political Suicide": You mentioned that Leo Frank was a Jew; however, you failed to state that the strongest factor in the incitement to lynch was antisemitism. I saw with my own eyes some of the handbills circulated in Atlanta at the time of the trial . . . Hate was mongered against all the Jews in town . . . My father was a Jew, living in Atlanta then. He endured the atrocity of the lynchers' parade past his very own door on that fateful night . . .
The annals of history will echo this sin against God and his creatures unto eternity . . . May the memory of Governor John M. Slaton be a blessing to all who mourn his passing.
HERMAN Russ Dayton
Sir:
. . . Why this dislike of the South? Whenever TIME can dig at anything Southern, it doesn't miss a shot . . . Your article on Governor Slaton's death was only an excuse for publishing the incident about the lynching of Frank. Most of us would be glad to forget it.
WM. T. SEIBELS Montgomery, Ala.
Sir: