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Your comments on "Questions & Answers" (RUSSIA, p. 13, Dec. 28 issue) are so disingenuous as to make one wonder if sometimes you may not distort the news to suit your purposes. Making a headline that utterly belies the contents of a news-item is an old trick in dishonest journalism. Who, outside of an editor of TIME, could consider the answers that Tchitcherin gave to the questions put before him anything but the essence of frankness, openness and the very opposite of "Machiavellian?" What could be less diplomatic than the answer to the second question, which says in effect...
...fixed upon and exactly how it was to be spent were points the two promoters did not make clear, except that they felt sure there was to be a university. It does not, however, appear that they planned to do anything dishonest...
...believe that it was potently pointed out and generally acceded to that while there was no stigma to being a professional, there was to being dishonest. That sport for sport's sake really meant something . . . and that the loss in numbers to the amateur ranks by the defection of those hwo would not compete unless their athletic clubs reimbursed them for lost wages, would be more than overcome by the satisfaction of the amateurs in that they had given up something purely pecuniary for something more profitable. In other words, the replenishing of ones pocketbook was not as important...
...suffer for the guilty and the high-minded and idealistic head of the physical education department of a university, so far as amateur competition is concerned, must suffer by reason of the risk involved in permitting him to compete as an amateur because of the low-minded, non-idealistic, dishonest money grabbers who, in the guise of coaches, instructors, teachers, attendants or what not, would indirectly be receiving compensation for their competition upon the amateur field. If there could be a body with supreme intelligence, with omnipotent power and enduring activity passing upon the proprieties of all competitions between...
Besides demonstrating the methods of dishonest mediums. Mr. Dunworth will perform mystifying tricks...