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Almost every major Australian paper has reproduced the cover portrait—the Australian Women's Weekly (circ. 800,000) reprinted it in full color—and nearly everyone has something to say, from those who call it "a travesty" to those who say it is "a work of genius"—or, more succinctly, from "bloody good" to "bloody awful."
The Melbourne Herald headlined its story MENZIES PORTRAIT—A STORM. The Sydney Sunday Telegraph reprinted the entire cover story, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph editorialized: "That American TIME magazine has chosen Mr. Menzies for its cover portrait is a tribute to a great Australian statesman and a boost for Australia."
Though TIME'S Melbourne printing plant increased its press run by 50% to meet the demand for copies, it was not nearly enough. All newsstand copies were sold out within two days, with requests for copies still coming in. Australians are really beginning to feel out from Down Under in terms of the rest of the world.
KEN CLARKE
TIME-LIFE International Sydney
How to Choose a Candidate
Sir:
History tells us our country was founded in part by people who came here to escape the domination of the Pope.
Are we to start back into that turmoil by electing a Catholic President? Heaven forbid ! There is no place in America for a Pope and his various machinations.
MRS. W. A. O'CONNOR
Corvallis, Ore.
Sir:
If you vote against a man because of his religion, it is called bigotry. But if you vote for him for the same reason, it is called tolerance.
EDWARD CHARLES
Binghamton, N.Y.
Sir:
There are things far more important than a candidate's religion—peace for one. Will he tell the people how they can have peace by instituting the rule of law?
CARL K. BRONEER
San Diego
Disunion in South Africa
Sir:
Once again, this time in South Africa, the soft underbelly of the Western "free" nations reveals a startling and potentially dangerous weakness. Race tensions and hatreds, while long played down as having no real effect on the ability of the Western alliance to oppose Communism, flare forth as a glaring reminder that this could be the Achilles' heel that Khrushchev has been looking for. It is a situation made to order for those trying to sell Communism as the panacea for all the tragic ills suffered by the black man at the hands of "democratic" governments.
NELSON HENRY
Dayton
Sir:
The ignorance of some people is ofttimes appalling; do not South Africa's Prime Minister Verwoerd and the mass of cretins cavorting behind him, in the slime and filth that is his belief, even suspect what is to be the certain fate of their children? Bloodshed and tyranny lead to but more bloodshed and tyranny.
ARTHUR J. JACKSON
Philadelphia
Sir:
South Africa's "realists" (white Nationalists) are the wave of the future. TIME (and others) should realize that it was the realistic element of our world that did all the building, inspiring, and gave the leadership that brought us to our present high level of civilization.
PHILIP F. CONNELL
Portland, Me.
Sir: