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We were appalled by a quote mistakenly attributed to a Hertz executive in the Dec. 7 article on car renting. The statement—"Businessmen on expense accounts just don't care about a bargain"—certainly was not made by I anyone at Hertz. Please, therefore, set the record straight.
M. D. KRAMER The Hertz Corp. New York City
— Straight it is.—ED.
Nehru & Neutralism
Sir:
After having spent more than three years in India, I agree with most of your comments on Nehru [Nov. 30].
Once India is strong enough to liberate itself from Nehru and his peremptory idealism, liberating its territories from the Chinese invaders will be child's play. Had Nehru not failed as a nation builder, the Chinese would not have risked attacking India.
GEORGE A. FLORIS
London
Sir:
Your excellent article, "India's Lost Illusions," reminds me of Nehru's press conference a few years ago at the Istanbul airport.
One of my Turkish colleagues asked who would succeed Nehru when the Pandit dies. After a dead silence, the answer came from the Indian press attache: "When the sun shines, you cannot see the stars."
Unfortunately, right now the sun is covered by red clouds.
LOUIS GOLDENBERG
Istanbul
Sir:
Deep down, India and Pakistan possess an enormous reservoir of mutual good will. But they have been sorely in need of sympathetic guidance from the more sophisticated democracies of the West to resolve their unfortunate political differences and establish a great alliance. Will American leadership today finally rise to the occasion and save democracy in Asia?
ALY WASSIL
Salt Lake City
Sir:
I think the following poem will interest your readers. It is a pretty old one, but it simply and effectively sums up the temperament of the belligerently aggressive Chinese: How courteous is the sweet Chinese; He always says, "Excuse it, please." He climbs into his neighbor's garden And smiles and says, "I beg your pardon." He bows and grins a friendly grin, And calls his hungry family, in; He grins and bows a friendly bow, "So solly, this is my garden now."
R. D. BHATTACHARJI
Delhi
Sir:
You will have some satisfaction in knowing that your magazine, many a time, reaches common men beyond the educated elite in India. The lift boy in my office glanced at the cover photograph on the copy of TIME that I was reading in the elevator, and observed, "That's the shadow of a brigand falling on Nehru's face. We will remove this shadow." He took the magazine and then chanced to see the inside picture of Nehru embracing Chou Enlai, and said in horror: "Ghost of our sinful past! Bury it."
B.P. JAIN
New Delhi
Reviewing the Reviewer
Sir:
I have just returned home from a trip to Pakistan to find your Nov. 16 issue awaiting me. It contains your most friendly review of my book about Rudolf Hess, The Uninvited Envoy, for which my thanks.
I feel I must point out, however, that I do not "assert," as your reviewer claims, that England in 1941 was nearer to capitulation "than anyone now likes to admit."