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PAULINE LANDSBERG North Bergen, NJ. Sir: Who will guarantee that the beasts who killed Anne Frank and millions of other innocents will not come back—or are all the living Germans of today “good Germans”? As one who did not have to wait to be sorted out for the ovens, but who was lucky enough to get to the U.S., I feel we have done too much to build up Germany. A Nazi killer instinct cannot be destroyed in one generation. It will take a thousand years to do it. KARL STERNBERG Belen, N. Mex. Sir: Your article on Anne Frank is excellent. Let us remember to keep ahead of the Russians or they will certainly have us “lined-up.” LYDIA SIDERYS Indianapolis Sir: How can you give that big blow-up to Nazi Von Braun? Hadn’t we better have more guided men and fewer guided missiles? FANNY VENTADOUR Winter Park, Fla. Sir: I wonder if the enthusiasm that is presently being shown for Von Braun is shared by the fathers and mothers of those little English boys and girls who were killed by his V-2 rockets? GEOFFREY H. BASS East Hampton, N.Y. Sir: If we have to lose a war with the Russians, you will probably find Von Braun living in a Moscow apartment making the cover of a leading Russian weekly magazine. D. SMYTH Chicago Sir: My hat is really off to TIME for the recognition shown our Missileman Wernher von Braun. Every living American should feel deeply indebted to this man for his never-ending effort toward guarding the security and well-being of our American way of life. RAYMOND T. BAKER Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. Cape Canaveral, Fla. Sir: Your Feb. 17 account of France’s atrocities in Tunisia reads like a report on the rape of Hungary by Russia. U.N. sanctions against France are vain to hope for, but the U.S. and other true democratic nations should not condone murder, even when committed by our so-called allies. H. KRIGOLSON Vancouver, B.C. Sir: In World War II, France lost its honor. During the senseless bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, it is fast losing its soul. FRANK J. CANNEY Salinas, Calif. Sir: I am glad that one of the leading magazines of the Western world does not find excuses for the disastrous politics of the present French government in North Africa. It is time that the U.S. cease supporting the frustrated politicians actually in power in France—politicians who are making a joke out of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite! COMTE JACQUES A. DE VISME New York City Sir: I was deeply impressed by your article. A Frenchman myself, I have the same feelings as you about the killing of these poor innocent victims. But, to be fair, do you think that such horrible things can be easily avoided in a war and especially when planes are involved? During the last war my own town of Nantes was bombed several times by U.S. planes and thousands of women and children killed. And the first bombing occurred on a market day; victims were in the streets waving to these very planes that were on the way to kill them. No military target was hit. A. RICHECOEUR Mexico City Sir: If there were some poor civilian victims of the bombing at Sakiet, how do they compare with the thousands killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? PIERRE GUILLAUMERON Paris Fed Up? Sir: Blessings on thee, TIME, for your beautiful review of the exquisite Father Panchali \[Feb. 17\]. When will these thick-skulled theater owners realize the cinemagoing public is fed to the teeth with limpid-eyed, loose-lipped 42-22-34-ers. MRS. ROY FLOYD Denver Sir: Sincere thanks for your criticism of the art houses of Manhattan. The same is true of Chicago. I’d begun to think I had lost my appreciation of art because I find nothing intellectually stimulating or even entertaining about women prancing around that old sex box in their absolutely. MRS. JOSEPH R. GRUND Chicago Helping Hands Sir: As a present and past officer of an Optimist Club and the husband of the president of an Opti-Mrs. Club, I wish to register my protest to the biased type of reporting you presented in your Feb. 17 story on Mrs. Dean. It would seem that tact, and the acceptance of a jury’s verdict would be sufficient to indicate the innocence of the defendant in this situation. The Optimists and Opti-Mrs. do not lightly undertake their obligations to an individual or a group of children. DR. BERNARD WEISS Dade County, Fla. Sir: You print an article about how clubs banded together to subsidize legal clearance for a wife charged with drilling her husband, and yet you seem to have no idea of the ramifications. I propose a counter-fund to provide legal counsel for husbands who may themselves revert, in a fit of pique, to the matrimonial-jungle law of divorce-by-firearms. Let’s get this thing rolling before the girls realize that they now can rid the house of a mate as quickly and economically as kitchen garbage. ALLEN R. ROBERTSON Captain, U.S.A.F. Webb A.F.B., Texas The President at Work Sir: Article after article berates the President for not campaigning ardently today. The presidency has grown in responsibility until it is almost beyond the physical strength of one man. Outcries against any relaxation for the President seem to me almost criminal. ELIZABETH PRICHARD TURNER Boulder, Colo. Sir: I can understand President Eisenhower’s refusal to be alarmed over the economic recession. After all, he’s still got his job. MELVIN PRINCE Brooklyn Pike’s Pique? Sir: Dean Pike’s story may be “Pike’s Peak” to you and others, but it’s pique to many of us who hate to see elevated to an exemplary pinnacle a man who has failed in his first marriage and who, as bishop, will be the dispenser of the increasingly popular institution of annulment to those members of the clergy and laity who want to find a convenient loophole through which to chuck their original spouses, so as to take on new ones that are more attractive or advantageous. J. H. FAWCETT Berkeley, Calif. Sir: What has happened to the thinking of the clerical and lay delegates of the Episcopal Church in electing Dean James A. Pike as their Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of California? Just from reading his life story in your Feb. 17 issue, I wonder how long he will believe in Protestantism—next step atheist. BARBARA BROWN Spring Lake, N.J. Sir: Judging by Dean Pike’s conclusions that “how the viewer receives the experience \[of seeing the movie Baby Doll) depends upon his intent,” housekeeping is going to be a snap from here on out. If my intent isn’t to see the dirt on the kitchen floor—well, it just isn’t there. AGNES ALBRECHT Mission San Jose, Calif. In the City of Brotherly Love Sir: Re your Feb. 24 article “Philadelphia’s New Problem”: We have consistently insisted that in the city of Philadelphia Negroes shall have the right to buy homes and live wherever they desire. It is true that this has had a tendency to hasten the flight to the suburbs of younger white couples. It is, therefore, essential, if the suburban communities refuse to do so voluntarily, that there be a state anti-discrimination law. Builders of housing developments should also be compelled by federal regulations to abolish discrimination and segregation in any development built with the aid of federal funds or mortgage guarantees. RICHARDSON DILWORTH Mayor Philadelphia Two Kinds of Motherhood Sir: I can’t decide whether your Feb. 17 item was supposed to be facetious or not: artificial insemination for spinsters! Aside from the fact that the very idea destroys the meaning of the word “family,” can it be possible that Methodist Leader Donald Soper could possibly not know that a woman is called to two types of motherhood—spiritual as well as physical. I’m glad I’m not one of the sheep in this shepherd’s fold; I would find frustration in his guidance. SALLY O’KANE New York City Sir: What’s the older generation coming to? The will of God still predominates over the will of man, but Donald Soper seems to think that whatever Lola wants, Lola should get—regardless of the natural law. DOROTHY DAVISON St. Louis Take That, Pat Sir: Shame on Reader Pat Brennan \[Feb. 17\] for comparing the accomplishments of Spellman, Sheen and Gushing with those of Dio, Anastasia and Luciano. However, may I point out to Pat that in both fields he mentioned—the Catholic Church and the underworld—Italians are at the top. 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