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Are we so blind to the reality of world conditions that we cannot perceive that none of these lands is yet ready for independence ? The great successes of the Western powers have not resulted from the present policies of defeatism and surrender being urged on us by such journals as yours. Let us hope the conscience of Metropolitan France and the West listens to the voice in the wilderness that is crying out in Algeria.
DONALD E. CLOSE
Lieutenant, U.S.A.
U.S. Forces
Korea
Sir:
Why shouldn't what has been good for Ireland, Palestine and prewar India be good for Algeria? The only sensible and humane solution to the worst problem in the world lies in partition.
P. SOLTANI
Teheran
Fractured Syntax
Sir:
Allow me to congratulate you for printing "Syntax Problem" [Jan. 26]. For years I have been trying to decide whether I had lost "Mr. President" or he had lost me.
Now I know.
MRS. LESTER G. BUSHMANN JR.
Fort Smith, Ark.
Sir:
Eisenhower and Kennedy might reply as Henry Ward Beecher once did to an English student.
After listening to one of Dr. Beecher's great sermons, the young critic told the minister at the church door that he had counted 24 grammatical errors in his talk.
Beecher responded, "Young man, if the English language gets in my way, she doesn't stand a ghost of a show."
J. HOMER RICHART
Denver
The Navy on the Mount
Sir:
In the Cinema section [Feb. 2], you state that Joe Rosenthal's photo shows six marines raising the Stars and Stripes on the summit of Mount Suribachi. I think you have done the U.S. Navy an injustice. One of the flag raisers, who survived the bloody battle and was medically discharged in 1945, was Pharmacist's Mate Second Class John Henry Bradley, U.S.N. He was serving as a hospital corpsman attached to a Marine combat unit. In view of the outstanding job these hospital corpsmen have done in the past, it seems only proper, from a Marine point of view, that one of them should have been represented in this heroic and memorable act.
PETER S. BECK
Captain, U.S.M.C.
Washington, D.C.
Ambassador's "W"
Sir:
Re Reader Dusenbury's letter [Jan. 26], Ambassador Galbraith is not the only one in our State Department whose usual position is the W. One may rest on knees and elbows with feet, hips and forearms upraised. This is a wrestler's defensive position. Haven't some of our ambassadors been in that position for some time?
The N is also becoming a familiar ambassadorial position. It can be achieved by sitting down (expecting help), with knees up and back hard against the wall. One can't move backward so must shift from right or center to left. Also, N stands for Neutral or Negative.
F. E. BOWER
Great Falls, Mont.
Sir:
What your reader does not conceive is the probability that Ambassador Galbraith has a long pair of feet to make a short last hand of a W.
JAFFERY SULEMAN KIYINGI
London
The German Synagogue
Sir:
I read with great interest your article on the rededication of the synagogue of Worms [Jan. 26].