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. . . Patrick Wright says he believes Hitler is a holy man.
I agree with him. In fact he does not go far enough. He should have said Hitler is a god. It does not matter whether he is a good or bad god, because he got into the wrong sphere. He does not know it yet, but he will know it, when he—some day in the not far future—sits sucking his thumb on some lonely island. . . .
KELSO HUGHES
Champaign, Ill.
Sirs:
California is the leading State in the production of English walnuts. Alabama and Mississippi produce pecans. But now South Dakota gets into the race and proceeds to show us what a real nut is. I quote from the March 24 issue of TIME: "Adolph Hitler is a German heman and the greatest warrior that this world ever produced since history was first written and to be candid I believe he is a holy man." This letter was written from Custer, S. Dak.
California, here we come. Can you raise bigger nuts than South Dakota?
L. LEE LAYTON JR.
Dover, Del.
For or Against
Sirs:
Allow me to congratulate you on your fine editorial attitude in respect to your reporting of the present war. You are deserving of a nation's thanks for keeping with its citizens an awareness of the dangers to it from totalitarianism.
Being an alert reader of your columns, I regret to find an overdose of letters written to you expressing blatantly a pro-Nazi, or at best a pre-war type of Irish, hate for Britain and its defenders. Let there be no mistake about it, such attitudes are contrary to America's best interests, and carry with them the seeds of distrust and discord concerning our Government. A person is either for democracy or he isn't—there is no compromise stand. . . .
RONALD MACKENSIE
Hudson, Ohio
Sirs:
... In my wife's and my opinion TIME has ceased to be a genuine reporter of world events and become a propaganda sheet for the subversive forces which are wrecking civilization throughout the world, our own country included. It was these same forces whose work your magazine is doing which were responsible for the Red hell in Russia, the breakdown in Italy, the collapse in France, the Red horror in Spain, now happily crushed but at fearful cost, for the present plight of England, for Hitler's regime in Germany as a counteroffensive and for the economic misery, confusion and breakdown in our own country. Hitlerism, which you profess to hate, was created as a defense mechanism against your hidden bosses. . . .
G. ANDREWS MORIARTY
Ogunquit, Me.
"For All His Faults"
Sirs:
Congratulations on your splendid article on Henry Ford and his present-day plight [TIME, March 17]. It is the first open-minded, clear and comprehensive picture presented in many a day of a man who for all his faults has done this country more good than all the unions, Perkinses and Wagners can ever hope to accomplish.
ROBERT O. SCHULZE
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Sirs:
I read with much interest your story on Henry Ford. Regret to find it shot through with the poison of factionalism. Are you making a bid for more readers among labor? Naturally, that will increase your profits. Let's be sincere. Cut out your attitude of cynicism and knife throwing. . .
H. STAUVROS