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What would St. Francis have said to the beggar who was rolled by the Assisian equivalent of a beautiful call girl and wanted to get to the Assisian equivalent of Wall Street? Mutatis mutandis, what would Robert Owen have said? Or Lenin? Or Kingsley Martin? Or Franklin Roosevelt? Or Emily Post? Or Freud? As for my friends and me, words failed us. Neither our education nor our experience nor our principles had prepared us for this encounter. Ours is, indeed, a rich and wonderful country—glamorous beyond belief. A bum can no longer suffer mere misfortune; he must be "rolled by a beautiful call girl." And he is not friendless. Far from it; he has only to appear in Wall Street to have his credit and identity restored. I returned to my office filled with awe. What dreams we Americans can dream ! Who has bums like our bums? MAX J. K. CLARK New York City
Panditry
Sir: May I suggest what I think is a more pithy description of Nehru's foreign policy than your [Oct 18] phrase, "antiWestern 'neutrality' "? Why not "Nehrutrality"? RALPH VIERNO Closter, N.J.
Racial Flare-Up (Contd.)
Sir: The articles [Oct. 11 et seq.] On the anti-segregation disturbances . . .certainly must be edifying to non-American readers the world over, especially here in the Middle East, where the inhabitants' skin color is usually a shade or two darker than those lofty-browed Anglo-Saxon types in the photographs accompanying your [Oct. 11] article . . . What a profound impression this must make—these Americans, always broadcasting about freedom and equality and the "American way of life" and what a great little country we are . . . As an American living abroad, I find myself wondering about my countrymen, especially that superior breed of bigots south of the Mason-Dixon line. R. N. WHITE Rafha, Saudi Arabia
Sir: As an American in India, whose great-grandfather was a Louisiana slave-owner, I have proclaimed the Negro issue in the U.S. a dying problem. I am indignant that a mob of Baltimore bigots should make me eat my words and, worse still, drag America's name . . . into the mud before my Indian associates . . . We abroad are the ones who have to answer to the world for such conduct. What possible answer can we give? (THE REV.) B. H. MILLER Poona, India
¶ One answer is the seventh grade, Edison Elementary School at Hobbs, N. Mex. (see cut), where desegregation—after a brief flare-up—now works. —ED.
Man of the Year
Sir: For bringing Europe together again by his diplomatic skill, let me please nominate Sir Anthony Eden as Man of the Year. LUBIN J. VALIS Zurich, Switzerland
Sir: . . . If the London pact jells, it will be Dulles . . . ARTHUR H. HASCHE Watertown, S.D.
Sir: Whether you think he's the biggest menace since Dennis . . . you can't avoid naming Joe McCarthy . . . CHARLYN D. BURTON Dedham,Mass.
Sir: . . . Grudgingly submitted is the name of Chou En-lai . . . W. FARRISEE JR. Albany, N.Y.
Sir: . . . General Christian de Castries. JEAN LEBRUN Grand Mere, Que.