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Sir: I read with bitter surprise your article devoted to defaming and offending in a cowardly way the memory of my deceased parents [July 10]. When I made the decision of declaring before the world the truth about Cuba, and of thus helping to unmask the existing regime in our country, I did it conscious of the difficulties I would have to face. I knew that I was putting myself in a position in which I was going to be attacked by the partisan press of international Communism. I knew that they were going to try to demoralize me politically. I even thought that I would be the object of personal criticism by my enemies. However, I never imagined that my political attitude would be used to injure the memory of my parents. I consider that it is not worth the trouble to start a polemic, since the struggle that all Cubans have ahead of them does not permit me to lose time clearing up stories without foundation. As our apostle José Martí well said: "He who goes in search of mountains does not stop to pick up stones in the road."
JUANITA CASTRO Ruz
> TIME sympathizes with Miss Castro, but believes that at times harsh facts are relevant and must be reported.—ED.
Catholics v. Nazis
Sir: Three thousand to four thousand Catholic priests [July 24] underwent their "Golgotha" in Nazi Europe during the years 1939 to 1945. They became victims of Nazi persecution for their silent or outspoken resistance against the Third Reich. The martyrdom of these priests, who sacrificed their lives for their faith in the service of the church, is the only valid answer to the accusations of indifference of the Catholic Church toward the Nazi regime.
BENEDICTA MARIA KEMPNER
Lansdowne, Pa.
Sir: In 1940, as a prisoner of war in Germany, I was put to work in villages near the town of Ellwagen, where a few years earlier the Bishop of Rothenburg had made a resounding sermon denouncing the Nazi regime and philosophy. The Gestapo came at once to arrest the bishop, but he managed to flee to Switzerland. However, his sermon had been printed, and the villagers were keeping copies of it carefully hidden. Some of them showed it to us, warning us "nicht sagen."
FATHER FILIBERT
Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
Istanbul
Switched Bishops
Sir: Re the excellent article you wrote concerning the assignment of Bishop James S. Thomas and me [July 24], you inadvertently placed my name under the picture of Bishop Thomas and his name under mine.
PRINCE A. TAYLOR JR.
Bishop The Princeton Methodist Church Princeton, N.J.
Pam's Slam
Sir: You quoted Pamela Mason as saying that neither Louella Parsons nor Hedda Hopper "writes her own column [July 17]." I cannot speak for Parsons; but I worked for Hedda Hopper for about ten years. My wife is still her private secretary, and Miss Hopper is still a close friend. The statement that she does not write her own column is false.
DAVID C. MCCLURE
North Hollywood, Calif.
> TIME agrees that Pamela Mason was indulging in colorful hyperbole when she stated flatly that "Hedda Hopper doesn't write her own column."—ED.
* Sir Arthur's son.