Letters, Jul. 28, 1952

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Aye for Eye

Sir:

Re the July 14 issue: Let me be one of the thousands to congratulate you and your staff . . . Blessings on you for the courage to come out with political views the way you have . . . Ignore the slams you'll get ... Truth hurts, and it's about time someone had guts enough to publish the truth . . . I've read that "Eye of the Nation" article five times.

GWYNNE DE COVERLY Chicago

Sir:

Hurrah to TIME for exposing the Republican National Committee and the Taft tactics. I had begun to believe that TIME too could see corruption only within the Democratic Party; but right makes for right, and the convention itself upheld your stand in its decision . . . The Republican Party's candidate will go to the people this November with clean hands.

GEO. D. CARLOCK JR. Honey Grove, Texas

Sir:

I suppose the big eye on your convention cover once had an eyebrow. But it was lifted clear out of the picture at some of the goings-on it saw in Chicago.

KENNETH F. HALL

Anderson, Ind.

King Kong Cuts Sir:

. . . Each time King Kong is revived [TIME, July 14], more of the picture is cut. Not since 1933 have audiences seen the scene on the cliff in which Kong sits to examine his prize (Fay Wray) and tears off part of her dress ... Is this scene in the 1952 revival or does bluenose prudery win another round? . . .

EDWARD CONNOR New York City

¶RKO happily reports that Kong continues to triumph over prudery.—ED.

Munich: Kennedy v. Churchill

Sir:

In your June 9 Letters Column, Randolph S. Churchill says TIME was wrong in referring to Czechoslovakia as "Britain's ally" and denounces the "holier than thou" attitude adopted by some Americans towards the English in regard to Munich, and states that England had no more moral or legal obligation to defend Czechoslovakia than had the U.S. Mr. Churchill implies that the respective positions of Great Britain and the U.S. towards Czechoslovakia were on a par . . .

Britain's military alliance with France under the Locarno Pact of 1925 . . . although it did not guarantee Czechoslovakia against aggression as it did Belgium, made it inevitable that if France went to war to fulfill its own direct obligation under the Franco-Czech Treaty of 1924, England would be drawn in ... England was deeply committed, by her treaty with France and by her official actions . . . The illustrious father of Mr. Churchill has admitted that Great Britain was deeply involved and that "it must be recorded with regret that the British Government not only acquiesced but encouraged the French Government in a fatal course" (Churchill, The Gathering Storm).

The U.S. had no political involvement in Europe in 1938 . . . President Roosevelt never sent congratulations to Mussolini for arranging the Munich Conference, as alleged by Randolph Churchill . . . The President's telegram to Mussolini on Sept. 27 was a final appeal asking Mussolini to intervene with Hitler . . .

JOHN F. KENNEDY

House of Representatives Washington, B.C.

Lobstercide

Sir: