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Please inform the writer of the article "Breakthrough," under caption "Weather" [TIME, Dec. 31], that it was a privilege to have endured the recent storms-inasmuch as it has given us the pleasure of reading his beautifully written account...
...Webster dips his pen only rarely into politics. For Lincoln's Birthday 1940, Webster drew a forlorn, storm-whipped, benighted, wilderness cabin, a light in its window like the fever of birth. The caption: Ill-Fed-Ill-Clothed-Ill-Housed. During the war he drew a cartoon showing soldiers, under fire in the Pacific, listening to a radio's soapy-voiced report on the progress of a strike. But mostly he is content to give the U.S. newspaper public a much needed, and not too loaded, laugh for its three or five cents' worth...
Contrary to your caption, the locale of this picture is not Prague (as should be apparent from the German-language shop signs in the background), nor was the time 1939. . . . The sobbing woman with arm outstretched in Nazi salute has been consistently interpreted as a symbol of forced obeisance to the German conquerors of Czechoslovakia...
...point I must object, feeling inclined to quote what an Army sergeant told you [TIME, Letters, Sept. 17]: ". . . So great a part of the world's future well-being depends on the amicability of Russian-American relations . . ." or your own caption on the cover, "One World or no World?" It is so, and whispering campaigns or press pinpricks may at length turn out to be dangerous. The Russians didn't do very much to create confidence; that seems not to be in their line, and some admit it, adding that other countries' openness was punished by fifth...
...account of this distortion I am not surprised at your caption and comment. It is too bad that you did not have an opportunity to see the actual plaque, which only slightly idealizes Roosevelt...