Letters, Dec. 22, 1947

Meat or Poison

Sir:

TIME'S reporting of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip was a joy to read [TIME, Dec. 1]. It seemed to reach in and capture the very essence of that most beautiful and impressive ceremony. . . .

JOSEPHINE HAWKSETT

Minneapolis, Minn.

Sir:

It is difficult to find words to accurately describe my thoughts relative to the article concerning the wedding of our well-beloved Elizabeth. As a fourth-generation Canadian, and, I hope and pray, a good British subject, I feel a hot flush of disgust for your article.

TIME, as ever, ready with innuendo and sarcasm, could only find ridicule and malice to report what should have been a happy augury for the future of our Empire. . . .

I despise your attitude towards our sovereign, his family and our-Empire, and it would please me very much if your magazine were banned from Canada. . . .

FRANK L. GODFREY

Newsdealer & Tobacconist

Sidney, B.C.

Sir:

Congratulations. ... Of all the "billions of words about it," you have written the most understanding and understandable. This is the kind of writing which has made TIME the great magazine it is.

ROBERT W. WHITE

Sackville, N.B.

Gastronomical Debris?

Sir:

Re "Sludged Blood" [TIME, Nov. 24]: if Physiologist Knisely will feed his human experiment subjects a diet of fresh raw fruit —nothing else—the sludge spots (in the blood) which he finds so mysterious will disappear and no infections will exist.

When man ceases to make his stomach a burial place for the bodies of dead animals, with the resultant collection of billions of bacteria from oxidation of those bodies; when he eats natural food—fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts; when he stops poisoning his body with alcohol, tobacco, "medicinal" drugs, manufactured carbonated drinks, and the gastronomical debris that passes for the full life in our day, then his bloodstream will be clean (and unsludged!), his body will be well and will function as the wonderful and fearful machine that it is. ...

ELSE SONNE NISSEN

Iron Mountain, Mich.

"Belly-Wiggler"

Sir:

Being in a Cuban prison, sometimes articles about me do not reach my hands until a late date. But I definitely resent your stating that I am a "Belly-Wiggler" and a "HonkyTonk Dancer" [TIME, May 5]. ... Perhaps I haven't worked Carnegie Hall, but I have always taken my dancing seriously and have studied (very hard) the semi-classical dances. . . .

SATIRA

(PATRICIA SCHMIDT)

Guanabacoa, Cuba

¶ For a semi-classical example of Satira's art, see cut.—ED.

Man of the Year

Sir:

My nomination for Man of the Year is Mohandas Gandhi. In a warring world, here is a man of peace, whose mastery of body by mind has enabled him to conquer the British .Empire without firing a shot.

(MRS.) C. C. WESLEY

Hyattsville, Md.

Sir: