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. . . The Rosenberg crime was political, and as such must not be dealt with religiously . . . As a Jew I can feel no differently disposed towards them than I would to anyone else who committed such an unjustifiable act . . . There can be only one answer to the question of commuting the death sentence for these two who were willing to sell out their country . . .
I. RONALD SHENKER Flushing, N.Y.
Sir:
I wonder if those same people from England, France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland who are in the "Save-the-Rosenbergs" movement made a similar appeal for the eleven Communist leaders who were hanged in Czechoslovakia?
GINA DE LEEUW Amsterdam, Holland
Doctors in Uniform
Sir:
Rear Admiral Lamont Pugh's biased criticism in TIME, Dec. 1 is typical of the narrow attitude of top medical brass hierarchy in the armed forces. The majority of American doctors & dentists are not interested in military medicine . . . The thing that makes military medicine revolting to most doctors is not the hardships of service or the burden of overwork in the professional aspects of medicine, but red tape, confusion, idleness, waste of talents, boredom and paper work . . .
B. T. GALBRAITH, M.D. McAlester, Okla.
Sir: The only solution to the problem of shortage of doctors in the armed forces is a Government-sponsored National Medical Academy, created along the lines of West Point, which would annually supply doctors as West Point produces officers.
RICHARD A. GRUDZINSKI Syracuse, N.Y.
Mann & Freedom
Sir: It is appropriate to ask Citizen Thomas Mann for a more specific definition of the "slight restrictions of freedom" [TIME, Dec. 1] in the country whose citizenship he is anxious to keep . . . He has the moral obligation to speak up instead of spreading insinuations against his adopted homeland and to violate his promise to act as a good-will messenger when issued his American passport for travel abroad. Of course, the Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann was for literature, not for taste, tact and loyalty.
JULIUS BAUER, M.D. Los Angeles
Service Stripes
Sir: . . . In your Nov. 10 issue there was a paragraph devoted to the outcome of the senatorial election in New Jersey . . . I was described as a "Wall Street lawyer who had served briefly as Under Secretary of the Army." I served a few days short of two years as Under Secretary, following nine months as Assistant Secretary. I must say I am curious to know what length of service is required in order to get a man out of the "brief" category . . .
ARCHIBALD S. ALEXANDER Bernardsville, NJ.