Letters, Dec. 18, 1939

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Permit me for the sake of plain and sheer truth to inform you that the results of those elections—the most orderly, peaceful and fair ever held not only in Cuba but in the whole Western Hemisphere, barring no country—were immediately known and accepted by all and sundry, and that the majority of six seats won by the coalition which represents the so-called opposition parties, simply means that the Constitution to be drafted by the Assembly shall be, for the good of Cuba, the result of the sum of all political creeds, without there predominating in said Constitution any extremism whatsoever either of the left or of the right.

It is extraordinarily strange that the state of confidence, security and peace created in Cuba by the elections of November 15th (which a well informed newspaper, The Washington Post of November 21 has termed "Sign of Maturity"), be interpreted by TIME as a state of danger composed of "prime ingredients for revolution. . . ."

PEDRO MARTINEZ FRAGA

Ambassador of Cuba

Washington, D. C.

> TIME gladly accords to Cuban Ambassador Fraga the right to interpret Cuban affairs as he sees fit.—ED.

Man of the Year

Sirs:

. . . Herr Hitler, the "Him of Hate." Put his picture on your cover and maybe the same misfortunes will befall him as fell to those hapless sports figures you mention as marking their decline from the date of their appearance on TIME covers. I know Hitler's picture has appeared before but let us try it again and then all pray that the jinx will come to his door.

A. F. HERON

Zumbrota, Minn.

Sirs:

I nominate for Man of the Year Joe Stalin, who has outwitted all the living participants in the world crisis!

ERNEST DUDLEY CHASE

Boston, Mass.

Sirs:

As much as I hate to give him the exalted honor . . . chalk up another vote for Joseph Stalin.

SAMUEL HALPERN

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Sirs:

Remember the saying "You'll find the diamond in your own back yard?" Why look farther than our very own President, Franklin D. Roosevelt? . . .

MRS. A. W. BROWNE

Akron, Ohio

Sirs:

. . . Stefan ("The Terrible") Starzynski former mayor of Warsaw. There is (or was) a man!

ORA L. JONES

Pompano, Fla.

Sirs:

. . . Winston Churchill.

MARGARET JACKSON

Boston, Mass.

Sirs:

, . . the Premier of Finland (what's his name?), who had the grit to tell both Hitler and Stalin where to head in, and so turned the tide of their plundering onslaught on the "weak" nations of Europe.

STEPHEN M. WALFORD

Wallingford, Conn.

> His name was Aimo Cajander. He resigned.—ED.

Sirs:

. . . THE FELLOW WHO PLANTED THE BOMB IN THE BüRGERBRäU KELLER IN MUNICH. HAD HE NOT MISCALCULATED BY 11 MINUTES HE WOULD HAVE BEEN, IN ALL PROBABILITY THE MAN OF THE CENTURY.

DR. N. N. FRANKEL

Freehold, N. J.

> Nominations are hereby closed.—ED.

Misery Harbor

Sirs:

My attention has been called to your ar tide "Misery Harbor" which appeared on pages 64-65 of your issue of Dec. 4, 1939.