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Schuman in Luxembourg
Sir: In your article on Robert Schuman [Sept. 13] you stated that he was "reared in Lorraine."
Mr. Schuman was born in Luxembourg, his parents having emigrated from Lorraine after 1871. He received his primary and secondary education in Luxembourg's public schools.
GEORGES HEISBOURG
Ambassador of Luxembourg
Washington, D.C.
Kennedy's Coup?
Sir: Regarding your gratuitous credit for inspiration of our CIA exposé [Sept. 13], we wish to inform you that the inspiration came not from Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu but from the widely witnessed overt-covert games of coup promoters themselves, and from some of those who got interesting offers. Many people here believe that if Kennedy is trying to solve his own problems—special forces, brother, religion and social-disturbances—by blowing them up in Viet Nam and then knocking them off with a coup d'état, he will fail on both sides of the world.
ANN GREGORY Acting Editor The Times of Viet Nam Saigon
Romper Room
Sir: For 30 minutes each morning our two-year-old daughter enters the world of Romper Room [Sept. 13].
She thinks the pledge of allegiance ends with "Thank you for holding our flag," and can't be convinced that "Now we can have our refreshments" isn't the last line of a prayer.
I wonder what can possibly remain for a Romper Room student to learn when he or she finally reaches that mysterious something called "big school."
(MRS.) NORMA EPPINGA Grand Rapids
Dove Shooting
Sir: Congratulations on a lively and readable story on the opening of dove season in the Imperial Valley [Sept. 13]. I was there, and your article captured the spirit of the occasion admirably.
A discordant note was struck, however, when you commented that "the only sour face belongs to the game warden."
Nearly all our game wardens are expert hunters themselves on their off-duty days. They have a feeling of respect and comradeship for honest sportsmen, and they enjoy the atmosphere and activity of a hunting-season opener. They try to keep it accident-free and successful for the hunter.
SIMON NATHENSON
California Department of Fish and Game
Los Angeles
Sir: The Imperial Valley ranchers hate dove shooting for the damages done to people, pets, wildlife and clothes hanging on the clotheslines. The villagers stay away from the country through fear of being "winged" by trigger-wild Davy Crocketts from the city.
Yet this crazy "war" goes on, in the name of sport, because the sporting-goods, beer and motel interests encourage the ignorant male ego to drive into the countryside and pick off our wild birds as they rise from nests at dawn.
JEANNETTE O'DAY
Claremont, Calif.
Burke in Commons
Sir: Contrary to Senator Dirksen's statement in his Senate test ban treaty speech [Sept. 20], Edmund Burke was never Prime Minister of Britain. Though a brilliant orator and M.P., the closest he ever came to being even a Cabinet member was paymaster of the forces in the Rockingham Ministry of 1782.
F. M. WILHOIT
Professor Drake University Des Moines
Funerals: The Pain & the Profit