"The Russian Empire"

Sir:

Those of us who served in Psychological Warfare in the last war soon learned the value of giving a dog a bad name (or a good one).

The Russians use this method in their unceasing campaign. They call their type of government a People's Democracy and a Soviet Republic. They call us imperialists.

We only serve their cause by adopting and repeating the name they have selected for their own expansionist empire. They call it the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics," or "U.S.S.R." for short. This implies that it is a union of free peoples and is not limited to what we used to call Russia, but can spread to cover the world.

Why should we give such a name and idea greater value by adopting it and giving it currency? . . . We should call [it] what it is . . . "The Russian Empire."

The fate of the Third Reich of Germany may set the pattern for the ultimate course of the Second Russian Empire.

SAMUEL R. ROSENBAUM

Philadelphia

Burglar in the Kitchen

Sir:

Ironically, your March 12 report on labor-industry unrest was printed directly above the black-bordered box of our casualties in Korea.

Why is the home front so out of tune with the war front? . . . Carried to extremes, this "Do it my way or else" conflict between industry and labor leaders can do irreparable damage to our troops in Korea. Should not our concern for them take precedence over our personal considerations? Members of a family do not argue in the living room when a burglar is breaking in the kitchen door . . .

ROBERT G. MEYER

South Bound Brook, N.J.

Mistake, Please

Sir:

At last, I found one mistake in your authoritative news magazine. In your March 5 report on propaganda by Chinese Communists, you are speaking of Mr. Ikuo Iyama, Japanese Socialist. His correct name is Ikuo Oyama.

AYAO ITATTORI

Nagoya, Japan

P: Oya!--ED.

Crusade Against Crime

Sir:

Three cheers to TIME for giving frontpage space [March 12] to Senator Estes Kefauver and his crusade against crime . . . [And] more power to Senator Kefauver!

(MRS.) O. L. BYRD

Lubbock, Texas

Sir:

Television, an alert press (as represented by TIME Magazine), and the rise in public office of men of Estes Kefauver's caliber may be the triumvirate that will save America from dying from apathy . . .

BEN R. AUSTIN

New York City

Sir:

Findings of the Kefauver investigation should be no surprise. Lincoln Steffens' Autobiography showed that, 50 years ago, the same unholy, countrywide alliance between the criminal and the politician was part of our culture.

HENRY C. DEHM

Madison, Wis.

Sir:

Organized crime as exposed in your article poses more of a threat than does Communism to our American way of life. The FBI and Internal Revenue agents should be given the men and finances required to break the crime syndicates . . .

IRVIN W. RUPERT

Boston

Sir:

. . . I would like to add my commendation to the many you are undoubtedly receiving for your part in bringing the Senate crime investigation, via television, to the public. Although it is not a trial, the witnesses are certainly being judged by the watching and listening audience. I never look at television in the daytime ordinarily, but for the past week I have done little else . . .

FLORENCE HAY

Mountain Lakes, N.J.

Sir:

. . . The American public is going to gamble . . . so why not channel the $20 billion . . . into a legitimate lottery? The Government could keep 50% for much-needed tax funds, dispensing the other 50% in weekly prize money, and at the same time put the professional gamblers out of business . . . And we all would have one hell of an exciting day every Saturday.

CHARLES L. SMYTHE

Cleveland

Sir:

. . . If the committee and the public at large are desirous of having gambling run by a "nicer set of fellows," and at the same time directing the flow of billions into the Treasury, rather than into the hands of corrupt officials, there is a simple solution: legalized gambling.

RAY ROBERTS

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

. . . If the public wants the evils of gambling eliminated, let it stop gambling.

THEODORE R. MALSIN

Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.

Happy Memory

Sir:

Trappist Father Gabriel [TIME, March 19] is the very popular Father Arthur O'Conne11, who taught us baseball and heard our confessions at St. James's School in San Francisco.

A week before graduation, he explained the facts of life to us boys in a lecture which we all remember with reverent gratitude. When my father tried to tell me the same things a year later, he was embarrassed to learn that I already knew how babies were born, and he never brought up the subject again.

Father Arthur was a great influence in our rather uninhibited neighborhood, and we were brokenhearted when he joined the Trappists. But we are glad that he is happy in his monastic life.

JUDGE EUSTACE CULLINAN JR.

San Francisco

N-K's Helicopters

Sir:

TIME [March 12] says: "During World War II, United Aircraft's Sikorsky Division made all the helicopters produced for the military."

Nash-Kelvinator Corp., during World War II, built 219 helicopters for the Army Air Forces in its Detroit plant . . . By the time the war ended, Nash-Kelvinator was producing at the rate of 50 Sikorsky-designed helicopters a month under license agreement with United Aircraft's Sikorsky Division.

F. L. BLACK

Nash-Kelvinator Corporation

Detroit

Time on the Line

Sir:

Why do people in general, when thinking of a great military victory or drive, immediately think of the "fame-drenched" Marine Corps? We can cite quite a few examples where the "leathernecks" (here in Korea) would have been at a loss without the help of the Army or Navy or Air Force. They haven't done any better than the rest of the line troops . . .

When a marine completes a task that is everyday routine to the doughboys in the infantry, he is slapped on the back, given a medal and a three-day pass. And now, insult to injury! The marines land in 'Frisco! First rest in months. Long time overseas. Celebrations. Awards. What about the 24th, 25th and the 1st Cavalry Divisions, to name a few, who were on occupation duty prior to the Korean conflict, and have had as much time on the line as the marines, if not more? . .

SERGEANT MURPHY

Korea

Personal Question

Sir:

Wouldn't it be grand and glorious if some of pur RFC employees thought as much of their personal principles as they do of their personal principals?

EUGENE C. REED

East Orange, NJ.

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