Letters, Dec. 11, 1933

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When Empress Waizeru Menen of Abyssinia (TIME, Oct. 9) walked into the Mograbi Opera House in Tel-Aviv to witness the performance of Rigoletto by the Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed by.

Her reception in the opera house was as tumultuous and unceasing as the Queen's acceptance of it was gracious. She expressed her gratitude the next morning by inviting the prima donna to her room in the Palatin Hotel and presenting her with a brooch bejeweled bearing the remarkable likeness of "Old Testament-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie, and by asking the whole company to present their operas in Abyssinia, plans for which are now complete. . . .

HARRY ZINDER

International Radio & Music Stores Ltd.

Tel-Aviv, Palestine

Action in San Antonio

Sirs:

. . . Due to the definite, concise manner in which the provisions of the National Recovery Act were outlined in TIME we knew at once not only that the Government would have funds to invest in worthy projects, but how to apply for these funds, by the middle of the summer. With this information at hand the City Federation of Women's Clubs of San Antonio set about putting into motion all of the efforts necessary to procuring funds for the erection of a fireproof dormitory which is to provide lodging for 180 girls at the rates of $1 to $1.50 per week per girl. Now, at a time when many others are just deciding on projects—board meetings, committee meetings and architects meetings are over for the San Antonio Federation. Their application, plans, drawings, specifications, reports, etc., are already in the hands of the Government's NRA Board where the Federation hopes to receive favorable attention. All this because we had the information at the earliest date possible in a form which was understandable. Too much gratitude cannot go to TIME! . . .

MARY ROSE HARRISON

San Antonio, Tex.

Emerson No Nazi

Sirs:

In your discussion of National Affairs on Nov. 20 you mentioned an announcement from Berlin that I would officially represent the Nazi party in this country. Thereto you added that I was an oldtime newspaperman, who wrote ''propaganda from Germany, which was distributed to English-speaking troops during the War."

You are right about me being an oldtime newspaperman, but are wrong in your other assertions. I first heard of the Berlin announcement you mentioned when reporters of New York newspapers asked me about it a few days ago. I told them that I knew nothing about it. I am still waiting for an explanation of the origin of so silly a yarn.

Since I never have been a Nazi nor a German citizen, I fail to see how I officially could represent Germany's National Socialist Labor party here or anywhere. Even if an American nationalist, such as I profess myself, could join any German or other foreign national party, I would not do so.