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...refer to the Aug. 2 article . . . dealing with my recent remarks in Congress on the subject of the Iron Curtain churchmen who are delegates to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Evanston, Ill. . . . My speech was given as an answer to the State Department press release, and not the reverse, as your article would seem to indicate ... I have no fear of subversion from the Czechoslovak and Hungarian members [but] I question their ability to further resist the infiltration of the churches in their own lands even assuming [that] Communist control ... is not already complete...
Thanks to TIME for publishing French Author-Lecturer Pierre Emmanuel's observations on the trends of American education [Aug. 2]. He has voiced what perhaps many of us teachers are afraid to admit to the public ... Let's face the fact that we are no longer educating in the much-needed liberal sense. In attempting to counteract this situation in my own classroom, I have been met by an almost overwhelming opposition. Even my high-school seniors feel that an injustice is being done them if exposed to broader ideas than those rigidly laid down in the textbook...
Your issue of Aug. 9 ... gives us another bizarre facet of the McCarthy-Cohn combination in "One Enchanted Evening" . . . One is prone to ask if there can possibly be any sincerity in such a nauseating display of sentimentality...
...press-conference question about open Chinese Communist threats to "liberate" Formosa (TIME, Aug. 23) drew from President Eisenhower last week the slow-spoken comment that if the Reds tried to invade the Nationalist island, they would have to "run over" the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
...confess honestly that A Fable [his latest novel, TIME, Aug. 2] does not please me. It took nine years to write that book and I once tore up its first version. "Generally I don't read my countrymen's books. In fact, I read little. At my age [56], I prefer to read Flaubert, Balzac, Cervantes' Don Quixote and the Bible . . . The few times I tried to read Truman Capote, I had to give up . . . His literature makes me nervous...