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W. A. SMITH Ann Arbor, Mich.
Sir:
You state that "South Korea's poor steal from the U.S. Army." I wonder if you have ever given any thought as to how many American soldiers collaborate in the act of stealing, or just how many steal their own goods and sell them to the Korean merchants? Let us remember that the "slicky boy" is not only a victim of the cold war, but also a byproduct of the unsettled Korean question.
YOUNGNOK KOO Nashville
Sukarno at Home
Sir:
Thank you again for the complete and interesting March 10 story about Indonesia and its nationalist leader Sukarno who has the nerve to compare himself with a George Washington. The colonels in Sumatra are fighting for a good cause in opposing a government led by Sukarno.
PETER J. HOMBURG Los Angeles
Sir:
I hope the members of our Congress may start to question their wisdom when, gullibly, they provided the red-carpet treatment for the globetrotting Sukarno.
L.F.V.P. VANDERHORST Topeka, Kans.
Sir:
Having spent several days last year with President Sukarno in Djakarta. I can greatly appreciate your story. Being familiar with Indonesian politics, I recently discovered in East Berlin how far the Chinese personal flattery of Sukarno had gone. At a bookshop on Stalin Alice there is for sale a really fantastic two-volume edition containing a complete collection in full color of Sukarno's private collection of paintings, with text in Chinese, Russian and Indonesian. The printing of the two volumes must have cost a small fortune, and looking at them, it was obvious that the edition had been made for personal flattery purposes only. Amusingly enough, the collection includes full-color pictures of paintings by all the artists who have been booted out of Bali during the last two months.
SAM WAAGENAAR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Now Is the Time
Sir:
Re your letters [March 10] on Missileman von Braun and the late Anne Frank articles: they seem to have started quite a flow of ever free-falling American tears. America thought the German people were destroyed, but time has showed the indomitable German to, in the end, protect the American people from destruction. Americans had best be thankful they have someone like Von Braun to keep the Bolshevik wolves in Russia.
WYN COATES Dayton, Ohio
Sir:
I am glad that the vast majority of the American people do not think as Mr. K. Sternberg does, but give young German people like myself the opportunity to study in this country for the sake of deep mutual understanding and in order to prove that we have no "Nazi killer instinct."
KLAUS FLECK University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia
Sir:
I'm thankful that Hitler is dead, that Von Braun is here, and that Explorer is up there.
JANET MASSARO Austin, Texas