Letters, Sep. 17, 1951

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Sir: You are to be congratulated for the excellent coverage of tennis in the Aug. 27 issue. Dick Savitt's picture on the cover exemplifies a true American youth with poise, self-confidence and fighting heart.

Your willingness to devote several pages to one of the truly worldwide sports will be appreciated by all of us working with this great game. HARRY FOGLEMAN Cincinnati

Right Hand, Left Hand

SIR: IN TIME, AUG. 27, THERE APPEARED THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE: "WHEN THE MEETING [IN KAESONG] WAS OVER, GENERAL HODES ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH HIS ARM AROUND NORTH KOREA'S COMPLAISANT LEE [SONG CHO]."

I FEEL CERTAIN THAT THOSE THROUGHOUT THE SERVICES WHO KNOW ME, WON'T BELIEVE SUCH A STATEMENT, AS IT IS COMPLETELY WITHOUT FOUNDATION IN FACT. HOWEVER, IN FAIRNESS TO ME, I WOULD LIKE FOR OTHERS WHO CAREFULLY READ YOUR MAGAZINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE STATEMENT WAS COMPLETELY WRONG.

IF IT IS OF INTEREST TO KNOW WHAT MY RIGHT HAND WAS DOING AT THE TIME OF THE PHOTOGRAPH, IT WAS HOLDING MY BRIEF CASE. H. I. HODES MAJOR GENERAL, U.S.A. VIA TOKYO, JAPAN ¶TIME, which based its report on an A.P. dispatch from Kaesong, is glad to get the straight of it, right from the horse's mouth.—ED.

Yale's Thomists

Sir: In your Aug. 13 article "For Yale, a Thomist" you point out correctly that the Yale department of philosophy seeks to have all important positions represented, in the conviction that they will profit by mutual criticism. It is therefore happy to have Thomism represented. By way of giving credit where it is due, however, may I point out that this representation is not new? For some years past the Thomist position has been very competently presented by Dr. William M. Walton, whose acceptance of a more advanced post elsewhere left an opening for the appointment you describe. BRAND BLANSHARD Yale University New Haven, Conn.

Under the Shadow

Sir: Your brilliant appraisal of Soviet air power in the Aug. 20 issue should spur all Americans to greater defense efforts.

For those of us who live under the shadow of the "golden falcons' " wings, it had special meaning. RICK LINDEN Paris, France

What Is McCarthyism?

Sir: Your Aug. 27 article, "McCarthyism" v. "Trumanism," ignores the real point about the brazen baseness of McCarthyism . . .

There are many shortcomings for which Truman may rightly be held to answer. But to say that "McCarthyism is going to be around until Harry Truman . . . eliminates from U.S. foreign policy the tendency to appease Communism," looks like an attempt to conceal the truth that under Truman, U.S. foreign policy has long been opposing Communism with American money, arms and lives. In doing this, your piece becomes not news but an editorial that approximates McCarthyism—and Trumanism, if you will . . . LAWRENCE CHASE Arcadia, Calif.

Sir: The assumption that "Trumanism" is the cause and "McCarthyism" the effect is pure whitewash ... A spot on a suit is not removed by destroying the suit. WARREN R. SCOLLIN Wollaston, Mass.