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Missionaries of all faiths have worked in the Far East for many years. I wonder if their transportation has been furnished by the Government in whole or in part?. . . CONSTANCE M. LOGUE St. Paul Sir: It is so very encouraging to note the U.S. Air Force’s sponsorship of Dr. Buchman and his Moral Re-Armament tour. Finer work can scarcely be imagined. My own group is making immediate application for like treatment. We have a small but growing schism from M.R.A., based on the doctrine that God is at least a billionaire . . . ROBERT MARAIS Manhattan Beach, Calif. Sir: . . . You don’t seem to see that Moral Re-Armament … is a very wise investment for any government in the free world. Your U.S. re-education program after the war told us about great Americans like Lincoln and Jefferson, but I did not find a clue then . . . When I was put in an Allied jail as a Hitler Youth leader—I celebrated my 19th birthday there—it did not help much either. I’ll always be grateful for the Marshall Plan aid because it saved my little brother’s life and millions of Germans from starvation. But by giving a man enough to eat, you don’t convince him of Democracy . . . Only the people of Moral Re-Armament—through their lives—showed us what is right . . . And the faith in God I found through Moral Re-Armament made me immune from any materialistic ideology—Naziism or Communism . . . Therefore I would gladly travel by bicycle or even terminate my TIME subscription if the money thus saved would help Dr. Buchman to travel as comfortably as possible. PETER PETERSEN Hamburg, Germany On the Cover Sir: I have long admired the excellent likenesses of the world’s leading citizens, both good and bad, which your artists have painted for the covers of TIME. I am, however, disgusted at the caricature of Andre Malraux which appears on your July 18 cover. You have a very good Art section, which supports modern art very well. That is where this portrait, which is not at all a bad example of its type, belongs. But please keep that kind of stuff off the covers . . . (A/2NDC) SANDY CUTRELL Brooklyn, N.Y. U.S.A.F. Sir: Congratulations . . . ROBERT R. BLISS Deerfield Academy Art Director Deerfield, Mass. Sir: … It’s ghastly! FRED W. TONES Oakland, Calif. Sir: I’m wondering what poor M. Malraux has done to deserve the ugliest picture ever shown on a TIME cover . . . WALDO COSTA JR. São Paulo Sir: One of the finest duos in tempera and text to come off your press: Ben Shahn’s subdued, intense cover portrait, and the continuing spirit of that portrait carried on by your André Malraux feature. REGINA O’CONNELL Hollywood Sir: I was terribly surprised and disappointed . . . what’s more I am getting more and more disappointed in your taste for “novelties” on covers. The May 30 cover \[California’s Governor Knight\] is more appropriate for a seed catalogue . . . OLGA T. BELL New York City Sir: . . . The haunting depth of character is portrayed with such sincerity and selectivity that on the merits of this work alone Shahn can be placed alongside Modigliani and Picasso as a portrayer of mankind. In reproducing its best cover to date, TIME has proved once again that a realistic likeness is recognized by the mind as well as the eye. BENNARD B. PERLMAN Baltimore Sir: . . . The artist hasn’t been so well suited to his subject since Petty drew Rita Hayworth \[Nov. 10, 1941\] . SARA M. PHILLIPS San Francisco Sir: Congratulations to you on having a work of art on the cover . . . although I still deplore your change from the photographs you used to have . . . GEORGE MARION O’DONNILL Oglethorpe, Ga. Sir: I’ll bet you got plenty of anguished howls from militant lowbrows about Shahn’s splendid cover . . . For offbeat TIME covers, however, my money still goes on the job you did during the war on a Japanese admiral, I forget his name, but the artist was Boris Artzybasheff … It was one of Artzybasheff’s best. E. RIDDELLChicago Sir: . . . Just for the heck of it, who was the subject of TIME’S first cover? . . . E. WATSON Tarrytown, N.Y. ¶ The late Joseph G. (“Uncle Joe”) Cannon, Speaker of the House for eight years, was TIME’S first (March 3, 1923) cover subject (see cut).—ED. Sir: With the July 18 cover . . . you have paid a compliment to our intelligence and cultural maturity . . . An artist simplifies in order to gain breadth and strength (something a photograph never does) . . . Please give us more—we are ready and hungry. T. LOFTIN JOHNSON Bedford, N.Y. Critics & Other Tramps Sir: I read your July 11 review of Walt Disney’s Lady and the Tramp with increasing anger. I think that the ones to determine the worth of it are the millions of children and grownups who happen to love a good example of clean, refreshing entertainment. MRS. THOMAS E. WATKINS Arlington, Texas Sir: … I read your review … I feel that a grownup should not judge a child’s movie. I would not attempt to judge a grownup’s movie. BOBBY MONSCHEIN Madison, Wis. (Age 9) Sir: . . . You admitted that at least 20 million dog lovers might appreciate this picture, but the other moviegoers are going to be sadly disappointed with the gooey sentiment, the stark horror, and naggingly reminiscent tunes. I hope you don’t get run over by the Brinks truck as it leaves the box office for the bank. PAUL A. ENGLER JR. Birmingham Sir: I admire your honest and sensible review. The subject of dogs, at least here on Long Island, seems to be in the category of politics and religion. One does not discuss it … (MRS.) MARION PALMER Amityville, N.Y. Veterans in Diapers Sir: … I have always held your magazine in the highest esteem . . . However, there is this yellow-journal, half-true and deliberately misleading statement about the Forty and Eighters who, you say in the July 11 issue, “delight in romping around the streets in diapers . . .” You carefully imply that the 100,000 members of the Forty and Eight delight in so doing. I have been a member of the American Legion … for 35 years, and I … have never paraded around . . . in diapers. The Forty and Eight does not approve of those that do … JAMES GILL Cleveland Heights, Ohio Sir: I have read your article, “Kingmakers & Fun Lovers.” As a member of both the American Legion and La Société des Quarante Hommes et Huh Chevaux, I find it regrettable … I cannot deny the existence of diaper-wearing among at least seven of La Société’s 100,000 members. Unfortunately, diaper-wearing and bottom-pinching have not yet been included as a part of my activities in either the Legion or the Forty and Eight … It can also not be denied that within the confines of both organizations there exists a liberal sprinkling of so-called “Kingmakers” and internal politics . . . They are, perhaps, an outgrowth of the freedoms guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution of the United States. ROY L. BARTEL Monterey Park, Calif. Sir: Until I read your article on American Legion politics, I had a vague sense of guilt for being unenthusiastic about the Legion. I feel better now. If that type of eye-gouging, groin-punching, stab-your-buddy technique is the Legion’s concept of democracy in action, make mine matzo-ball soup. JOHN C. MCCARTHY Ontario, Calif. Dixon-Yates Sir: You people well know that the Dixon-Yates deal was set up deliberately by Ike and his utility helpers to wreck TVA. In spite of his fine-sounding words, Ike has no love for TVA . . . He is the worst and most spineless President we’ve had for 100 years. J. B. DYBEVIK Brodhead, Wis. Sir: When Senator Kefauver removed his coonskin, I thought I saw moths fly out. However, after his attempts to compare Dixon-Yates to Teapot Dome, I realize they weren’t moths at all—but bats. DUANE YARNELL Springfield, Mo. Big Scoop Sir: TIME has a right to interpret as it chooses evidence relative to whether or not there was a security violation Dec. 17, 1950 in Korea regarding news that Air Force F-86 Sabre jets had arrived in Korea. It has none to distort or “load” in favor of one set of witnesses what facts came out, as it clearly has done in its July 25 article “Skeletons in the City Room.” TIME correctly reported that I testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that all correspondents in Korea “in” on the Sabre jet story and their first brush with the enemy agreed to hold it by specific direction of the Fifth Air Force. Reason: intelligence believed the encounter so fleeting that the enemy still did not realize the Sabre jets’ presence . . . On the most crucial point at stake, TIME garbles my testimony by reporting: “Talbert argued that security was violated when \[the New York Times’ Correspondent Charles\] Grutzner put the story on commercial wires out of Seoul, i.e., they were thought to be tapped.” There weren’t any commercial wires. What I swore was that Mr. Grutzner sent his story by commercial wireless to the U.S. in uncoded English and that this was the equivalent of broadcasting it to the enemy. As to whether Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg later on personally released the New York Times story in Washington, I am content to stand on General Stratemeyer’s recent statement that this is blaming a mistake on a dead man not in a position to reply. Nobody that I know denies somebody in the Pentagon released it, probably due to a snafu’ reminiscent of “Who Promoted Peress?” ANSEL EDWARD TALBERT Military and Aviation Editor New York Herald Tribune New York City ¶ Let Reader Talbert stand where he chooses. The facts remain: 1) Air Force headquarters cleared Correspondent Grutzner’s story of the Sabre jets, 2) the Department of Defense refused to revoke his accreditation, and 3) thus rewarded him with a clean beat over Correspondent Talbert and other competing newsmen.—ED. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6609717/letters-aug-8-1955/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6609717/letters-aug-8-1955/"},"headline":"Letters, Aug. 8, 1955","datePublished":"1955-08-08T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T04:53:50.352Z","description":"Half-Price Loading Sir: I was surprised to read in TIME, July 18 that the U.S. Air Force paid $135,000 of the taxpayers' money to transport the Moral Re-Armament party to the Far East....","url":"https://time.com/archive/6609717/letters-aug-8-1955/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6609717/letters-aug-8-1955/","name":"Letters, Aug. 8, 1955"}}]}] ```