Man of the Year
Sir:
The Austrian who, without requiring applause, shares his food, his home and his freedom with the Hungarian refugees.
JOSEPH C. O'CONNELL
New York City
Sir:
The following must come into the reckoning: Nasser, Eden, Khrushchev, Eisenhower, Hammarskjold, Pope Pius XII and the Hungarian people.
FINBARR M. SLATTERY
Asdee, Ireland
Sir:
I nominate B. & K. Nasser is a good runner-up, but he forms only a chapter in the greater B. & K. volume.
FRANC I. OBIKA
Agbor, Nigeria, West Africa
Sir:
The most outstanding figures are:
Heroes: Nasser, Ike, Dag.
Villains: Eden, Mollet, Ben-Gurion.
S. MAQSOOD RAZA
Karachi, Pakistan
Sir:
Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, for proving that a leader can still be both right and forceful.
GERALD N. WINN
Chicago
Sir:
Dag Hammarskjold. We may bow to him for preventing a major war in the Middle East. LAURENS BOGERS
Willemstad, Curaçao
Netherlands West Indies
Sir:
President Eisenhower—a great war leader, a great statesman, the acknowledged leader of the free world and the hope of countless millions of the enslaved behind the Iron Curtain.
WILLIAM COOKE
Rye, Sussex, England
Sir:
Richard M. Nixon, our next President.
BILL BAYER
Miami
Sir:
The discriminating and superbly informed American voter.
JACQUES A. SIDI
Casper, Wyo.
Sir:
John Foster Dulles—a man of great moral courage who has brought strength into the State Department and, even more, has shed a new light on the whole concept of statesmanship.
.BETTY HANKWITZ
Philadelphia
Sir:
Harry S. Truman, the man who predicted that the Democrats could not win with Adlai Stevenson.
LOUIS PAUL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Sir: Elvis.
JOYCE RICHARD
Scottsbluff, Neb.
Sir:
The white-collar clerk who earns $75 per week, has a wife and three kids, and stays honest.
JACOB G. MOSES
Baltimore
Revolt in Hungary
Sir:
The kidnaping of Imre Nagy again highlights the history of treachery and moral depravity of the Soviet leaders. The Hungarian massacre has shown that the use of moral persuasion against those who have no moral standards is useless. If the U.N. cannot act, and "we can only act like men," let us act with heart and arms lest history describe us as asses who fought for liberty with nothing more than our jawbones.
LAWRENCE M. JOSEPH
1st Lieutenant, U.S.A.F.
c/o Postmaster
San Francisco
Sir:
I wonder if we are not missing an important point. The Hungarians were fighting, apparently, for Hungarian Communism as advocated by Mr. Nagy, as opposed to Russian-dominated Communism under Mr. Kadar. But both governments are Communist.
ROBERT P. MOLTEN
Lancaster County, Pa.
Sir: