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On the furor over mixed swimming, Rabbi Teitelbaum may have heard the story (currently making the rounds in Jerusalem) of the Israeli sailors on shore leave in Portugal who were warmly greeted in a tavern by Portuguese seamen who remarked: "We have heard so many wonderful things about your new country, and we admire your great fight against the Arabs, but we see that you too are having trouble with the Jews!"
BERNARD SILVERSTEIN Paterson, N.J.
Nixon in Russia
Sir:
After the many pilgrimages to Moscow—we finally sent a Man—and he did a Man's job [Aug. 3]. I'm certain thinking Americans, along with Khrushchev, will not forget the real, red-blooded American.
RUSSELL J. GRUBB
Clayton, N.J.
Sir:
As long as we are going to give Mr. Khrushchev the red-carpet treatment, we might as well let him address a joint session of the House and Senate. Several million murdered Hungarians, Poles, Catholics and Jews will turn over in their graves, but I don't believe Mr. Nixon was counting on their votes anyway.
HOWARD V. LEE Hillsdale, N.J.
Sir:
Be it a vote-getting coup or not, if it is true that Nixon is responsible for laying the groundwork for the upcoming Eisenhower-Khrushchev exchange of visits, his junket must also be regarded as one of the most significant contributions to peace in a long time.
ROBERT J. BURNS Chicago
"Free Access"
Sir:
I must insist on a correction of the erroneous statements made by TIME about me in your Aug. 3 issue. For 30 years it has been my practice to answer my telephone personally. No "battle order" has ever been contemplated, much less issued. It has always been the case that any member of the entire Reynolds team has free access to the president at any time. Further, we believe that good tobacco is the only basis for good smoking and that good smoking has been man's best friend for hundreds of years. BOWMAN GRAY President
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Winston-Salem, N.C.
A Question of Conscience
Sir:
Bravo to Boston's Roman Catholic weekly, The Pilot, for its beautiful comeback to the questions asked by Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord of Senator John Kennedy [Aug. 10]. It's about time that the Catholic press and laymen speak loudly in protest to these ridiculous inquisitions.
J. A. MULLE Rockford, Ill.
Sir:
One is to grant, with The Pilot, that many Protestant fears of a Roman Catholic President are "ridiculous." It is a little more difficult, however, to follow the Boston Catholic weekly in its "let's-all-have-a-good-laugh-and-forget-the-issues" approach.
The question which should be put to any potential candidate who may believe his religious position to be true for all men is: Do you give to any ethical norm such religious absoluteness that it would be impossible for you to defend the right of the individual to live in opposition to and to advocate the falsity of that ethical norm ?
Will you, Mr. Kennedy, be able to protect my right to sin?
FARLEY W. SNELL
New York City
The New Secretary
Sir: