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Los Angeles, Calif.
Sirs:
I wish to protest against your article on Henry Ford. ... I believe TIME's policy is to state the facts as it sees them. ... In the Ford article, however, you did not give complete information where you could have. The impression you gave me was that because Ford is working on defense orders, labor should bow down in quiet submission. . . . I know only a few of the facts on the Ford situation, but I do know that his labor policy is incompatible with the trend of modern, intelligent and humane relations between employer and employe. . . .
ROBERT H. ORCHARD '42
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
Food in World War I
Sirs:
... You can realize my astonishment when in your issue of March 17 I find, in a footnote, a quotation from the recent book of Lars Moen—Under the Iron Heel—to the effect that " 'perhaps the major' share of food sent from the United States to Belgium during World War I was diverted to feed the Germans."
To put it mildly, I can assure you that this statement is an absolute reverse of truth. During the first World War I spent a year in Belgium as a member of the American Commission which was in charge of complete food distribution in Belgium. If there was 1% of truth in the statement quoted by Mr. Moen, certainly both Mr. Hoover and the British Government . . . would have stopped it immediately. . . .
To the millions of Americans who at the time were interested in the work in Belgium the above statement would not be necessary. They know. But it would be a great misfortune to have Mr. Moen's misstatement taken at its face value by a new generation which has grown up since that time. I need only quote comment of the British Premier Asquith that the Commission for Relief in Belgium was "a miracle of scientific organization" and that "we are convinced that this relief food reaches the Belgians and the French and reaches them alone. . . . It is one of the finest achievements in the history of humanitarian and philanthropic organizations."
CLARE M. TORREY
New York City
TIME Gets Across
Sirs:
I am an A. A. gunner in the Royal Regiment of Artillery (Territorial Army) now serving in the west of England, and have been for several years past an enthusiastic reader of your most interesting journal. . .
It may interest you to know how I receive your magazine. A friend of my Mother's in Canada sends it to her, and I may add that every copy has come through safely since the beginning of the war, despite the efforts of the U-boats and long-range bombers. My Mother, Father and Sister read it from cover to cover, it is then sent to me, and after I have finished with it, my friends in the Battery all devour it eagerly. It is then passed on to the Red Cross Society, so you see this copy has a particularly large circulation. . . .
ROBERT A. PAGE
Gunner
Somewhere in England
The Work Goes On
Sirs:
The directors of The American Friends of France all have asked me to call your attention to a misstatement about our president, Miss Anne Morgan, which was published in your issue of March 10.