Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: Your revealing article "The Second Phase in Paris" [Dec. 6] gave me serious doubts as to the sincere .desires of the four parties concerned to achieve a "just and honorable peace." It seems absurd that mature men, especially those honored in the ranks of world diplomacy and charged with the awesome responsibility of ending a war that has become one of the most unpopular and ethically debatable in history, could spend months haggling over such minuscule points of procedure as the shape of the conference table and the number of doors leading to the main hall. It was estimated...
...Sir: I suggest that the negotiation site be changed to a heavily bombarded sector of the DMZ with continuing military action all around. Then the diplomats would dispense with all the diplomatic niceties about what kind of conference table to use and would negotiate an end to the whole stupid mess...
...Sir: I was surprised to learn from your article on .Robert Finch [Dec. 13], that 1 was "ailing." I thought I felt fine...
...Sir: "Who Stole the Locomotive?" [Dec. 6] brought back some unique memories. Right after the war, the Hungarian state-owned MAVAG works was ordered to build scores of locomotives for the Soviets as "war restitution." I was in charge of a team of engineers, working in a small town near the Russian border, that commissioned and transferred these engines to the competent Soviet authorities...
...remarkable about Wilbur is the way in which he belongs to other ages than his own, without ignoring the crises of the present. In a rare political poem he read at Harvard, Wilbur spoke of President Johnson's less than gracious response to a portrait he commissioned; "Wait, sir, and see how time will render you,/ Who talk of vision but have no sight." "The Marginal Way," a poem about the dying capacity for celebration, confessed "the time's fright within me," alluding to Auschwitz, and knew some newspaper on a porch would "flap the tidings of some dirty...