Letters, may 12, 1952

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Unity is not uniformity. If private and parochial schools are divisive . . . then so are ynagogues and churches, so are yachting clubs and vets' organizations, so are Knights lemplar and Knights of Columbus. God deliver us from the spectre of an America in which the cookie-cutter of democracy stamps out millions of rigidly uniform dolls of the same neutral grey. Even Macy's dolls come in different sizes and colors.

NEIL G. MCCLUSKEY, SJ. Alma, Calif.

Sir:

Logic a la Conant: the Amalgamated Association of Dairymen and Pharmacists is deeply concerned with the rising undemocratic practice of breast feeding. Whereas it is admitted that in most cases the standard formula product is somewhat inferior to the natural milk, still the practice is considered highly detrimental to the unity of our society, even though those guilty are still assessed their pro rata share of the general tax on lactic feeding.

I was unaware that Harvard was considered a public institution; had mistakenly assumed that its exclusiveness limited students' mixing with "all sorts of people." Bless my parochial ignorance!

TAMES MCDERMOTT Dallas

All's Fair ...

Sir:

By God, finally someone (General Sir Gerald Templer) has had the foresight, common sense and guts to fight Communists in the manner to which they should become accustomed. Templer's action in Malaya [TIME, April 21] will be effective, will raise horrified outcries from the intellectual do-gooders, and give hope to frustrated and baffled Red-haters like me.

Anti-Communist tactics based on Christian principles have failed universally. The argument that Templer-type combat is too reminiscent of Communist tactics is both specious and suicidal. In hand-to-hand street fighting, no man ever won by appealing to the spectators that he was being fouled. The victor must concentrate on winning, and if it takes a rabbit-punch or kidney blow—he uses it, and quickly . . .

DAN H. ROWAN

North Hollywood, Calif.

To the Salt Mines

Sir:

I shall admire America's courage if it persists in shouting Freedom and Democracy after what it has done for Morocco and Tunisia in the U.N. [TIME, April 28]. Is the Marxist dictum that capitalism and imperialism are next of kin so utterly false?

We have an old adage which goes: "The ass that went into the salt mine turned into salt." This seems to fit Greece and Turkey very well since their faithful toeing of the American line over the Tunisian question. A. MOHIUDDIN Hyderabad, Sind, Pakistan

Sir:

You want us Asians to fight on your side against Communism. Well, we are fighting at this very moment devils more dreadful . . . disease, poverty, ignorance. You are the richest country in the world, and the countries of Asia are the poorest . . .

Well, what are you doing for us? Holding out offers of aid, but only on condition that we fight for you if called upon to do so. This is very humiliating from our point of view ...

What are you doing about Malan's naked racialism in South Africa, which to us is much more terrible than Hitler's?

Let me tell America that Asia will readily stand by you, but only if you treat us like equals and help us to help ourselves.

Otherwise, all your anti-Red propaganda is going to be useless.