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I nominate not "one" Man of the Year, but a group of men: the rescued, the rescuers and the dead at the Springhill mine disaster.
R. D. BROWN Quebec
Mrs. L to Mrs. R.
Sir:
Could I possibly have misinterpreted the following quote from Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt? "Education has been lacking for the chief educator, the President of the United States. It has been nil [Oct. 27]." Our President is a graduate of West Point. He has been an inspiration to our cadets, and through his service to us and our country during World War II and for the past six years, he has inspired confidence in the whole free world. Let's have many more "ignorant" men like Eisenhower, and fewer remarks in bad taste from Mrs. Roosevelt.
MRS. L. M. LARSEN
Brooklyn
Pasternak's Future
Sir:
The pressure brought to bear on Boris Pasternak by his own countrymen should shock every liberal in the Western world. I wonder if America's liberals have sent their protests against this barbarism to the leaders of Russia? I believe Adlai Stevenson and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt should make their disgust widely known as should our own government leaders. If our liberals cannot attack this phony Communist love for artists, they should defrost their phony liberal heads.
G. L. WHEELER Los Angeles
Popes: Old & New
Sir:
We Protestants have had a complete bellyful of these ridiculous, ludicrous events in Rome during the past few weeks. After those power-seekers in the Vatican finally reached a decision, it must have indeed been a bitter cup of gall for them to kiss the slipper of the man they elected. Do you think if Kennedy is elected President in 1960 he will fall down and kiss the Pope's slipper?
HERBERT V. DODGE St. Clair Shores, Mich.
Sir:
Why all the ceremonial fuss over the election of a new Pope? I suppose it is because his position as president of the oldest existing corporation is regarded by millions of people as the world's biggest job. The Roman Catholic Church is said to be the wealthiest firm with one exception—the Coca-Cola Co.; then why not work up a similar degree of excitement over the appointment of a new president for that corporation or Standard Oil of New Jersey?
FRANK VINCENT WADDY Hollywood
Sir:
As a tolerant individual, I can honestly say your magazine is top-heavy with Catholic news. Why did you not just plant the old boy and forget the whole thing?
ROY BLOCKSIDGE Capron, ILL.
Sir:
Your excellent series on the death of Pius XII and the election of John XXIII were well done and handled in a proper and diplomatic manner.
RICHARD E. JOAS
Grosse Pointe, Mich.
The Minister Speaks
Sir:
I feel that the part of your Oct. 27 article on France which deals with me is both unfair and untrue. It tends to show me as a kind of would-be dictator, as a man who tries, against General de Gaulle himself, to acquire enormous powers by a one-party system. This sort of smearing campaign has been waged against me for months by Communist or extreme-leftist papers here; I must say 1 am surprised to see it resumed by a magazine with usually high professional standards.