Letters: Jul. 31, 1964

The Goldwaterites

Sir: The Eastern fat-cat kingmakers are dead. Long live the Tiger from the West.

JOHN DAVIDSON

Boston

Sir: From their heavenly abode, three great American Republican personages, General Douglas MacArthur, Senator Robert A. Taft and Senator Joseph A. McCarthy, who felt the sting of political crucification by so-called moderate extremists, must have had a hand in the Miracle of San Francisco.

E. B. SCHEETZ

Hatboro, Pa.

Sir: The Republican Party has just elected the first all-American presidential candidate of this century and not the usual lily-livered appeaser we have come to associate with American leadership. The victory is, however, not only that of Goldwater and of the Republican Party but also that of all true anti-Communists in all the corners of the globe.

B.D.H. VAN NlEKERK

Middelburg, South Africa

Sir: The way in which you have so cleverly presented Barry Goldwater in the poorest possible light leads me to the conclusion that the John Birch Society, of which I am not a member, may have something after all.

EDWARD G. KORAN

Phoenix, Ariz.

Sir: As one of those who limits the wearing of tennis shoes to tennis courts, I thank you for restoring an aura of respectability to our cause.

ROBERT J. PINKERTON

Bloomington, Ill.

Sir: Why all this flap over Goldwater's pronouncement on extremism? With Goldwater as President, the Southern states can use a few of their rights at long last, and with a few extreme measures get those agitators (the live ones, that is) out and get their society back in order. I'm for a man who lets the people take care of their own problems in their own way.

BUD CORCORAN

Reily, Ohio

Sir: The liberalistic extremists and patsies who have so unintelligently criticized Mr. Goldwater's magnificent classical statement in his acceptance speech would do well to heed Dante's Inferno: "A special place in Hell is reserved for those who in the face of a great moral dilemma maintain neutrality."

C. NORMAN SHEALY, M.D.

Cleveland

The Barryphobes

Sir: I am totally convinced that Barry Goldwater is sincere, intelligent, articulate, industrious, honest, courageous, religious, and dangerous.

WILLIAM F. KUNERTH

Ames, Iowa

Sir: Goldwater dwelt at length on city street crimes in his speech. Surely this is a local problem flatly contradicting his own basic policy: decentralization of Federal Government.

SUSAN WILSON

Durham, N.C.

Sir: Have you seen this?

>Thackeray's antihero, christened Redmond Barry, was a soldier, Member of Parliament, traitor, spy, gambler, spendthrift and all-round cad. He hounded the rich Lady Honoria Lyndon into marriage, taking her name as well as her fortune. The luck of Barry Lyndon finally ran out in a London prison, where he died of delirium tremens.—ED.

Sir: The radioactive fallout of fear, intolerance and ignorance at San Francisco has produced a political mutation that, like the proverbial mule, has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

JACK ELLIOTT

Bound Brook, N.J.