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Show Letters To Editor Skousen Answers Speech AtM Sophomoric vehemence about an unfamiliar subject is perhaps to be expected from certain scintillating mentalities which are still in the maturation process. 'For this reason rea-son I assume the salty and almost humorous intensity of Tuesday's editorial concerning my talk at the National Issues Forum was somebody's experimental adventure adven-ture into journalism. THIS editorialist might take a few lessons in journalism from the Chronicle staff reporter who covered the speech on the front page in an objective, professional manner. The writer must have gone to the Forum with the expectation that I would say certain things which could be slashed to bits. In any event, when I didn't say them, the Chronicle went ahead as though I had. For example, the Chronicle charged that I had divided everybody up into groups of "good guys" and "bad guys." What I actually did was to show how the same people, namely, President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles, had great success when they followed a policy of firmness in Guatemala and the Formosa Straits, but suffered catastrophic failure when they shifted to a soft policy of capitulation in Hungary Hun-gary and appeasement in Cuba. I was not talking about good guys and bad guys but about good principles and bad principles, and demonstrating what happens when the same people use each kind. I pointed out that in the case of Ambassador William C. Bullitt we had the reverse situation situa-tion where the same person moved mov-ed from a soft policy to a firm one. WITH ADDITIONAL reflection, I am confident the Chronicle will get the point. The editoral also charged that I relied upon mysterious "secret" sources for my information rather than available documentation. Perhaps Per-haps a playback of the tape recording re-cording will refresh the writer's memory. All the material I discussed dis-cussed was from available published pub-lished sources. I SPECIFICALLY suggested where the students could get more information on the less familiar fam-iliar subjects I was covering. If the writer will think diligently he will recall such non-secret sources sourc-es cited in my talk as General Albert C. Wedemeyer's book, "Wedemeyer p0 ambassador Earl t" "The ; Fourth Fl0o 'S":,J ropohtan edition tQn Star f0r N f ' MV. . Je CngressS m er5' -"gust 31, 196CUeR: orandum concern! 7 ' onomic breakdown2 Rui;-. confidentially' j",' UN last June cussed in the p ber (Victor full column to iff : 1 also cited the cu lease on January 9 revealed that Russia u?1 5 ut of gold and 1 . economic trouble , Uc--Nikita Khrut'h? other programs to meT 1 " culture) expansion ; -cannot get long-term8J:; . the West." SINCE THE editorial, even further docurZ ' ! Russia's economic ap ical slump, I sugg , I read the October? t titled, Soviet Wheeling Wheel-ing Still." This summari":: cent speech by Khrushch-' an official Russian report- ' ing industrial obsolescence ' fact that 53 of Russia's are idle due to inferior proi" and lack of replacement y-The y-The Russian breakdown in" nology was anticipated b Senate Judiciary Committe 2 years ago as a result i viewing translations of R. technical journals. In these" cow publications Soviet er,- . bluntly reported that "30 p-of p-of tractors, up to 60 pert- . " automobiles, up to 25 pert . construction machinery are tematically idle . . . mar, ; semblies of agricultural z. ; ery do not last a single e (Senate Judiciary Commit 1 port, October, 1961, "Expcc . Strategic Materials to thel4 p. 73). - 6 THIS SENATE report also ed that Soviet propaganda j: of industrial output had grossly exaggerated and it;' Red bloc was desperately ivy ious to break the West's f embargo before Russia we: a complete slump. Senator Thomas J. Dodil ocrat of Connecticut, said: " X these circumstances, it w. . ridiculous and suicidal forA'p cans to contribute in any- n Soviet strength." (Ibid, p.- . HE EVEN SAID, "The fc'ii come when a total emte '? trade with the Soviet may be considered ..." O- talk I suggested that now; ideal time if victory in IE-'!' war is what we really f Now let me comment:'! on the charge that I giving documentation'!"" dent asked for it. question and answer f--spoke of the protests m during the 'Hungarian in 1956. A student asked - " the source and I told the -how to reach me at telephone where I cou the exact citation. 1 furnished this citation to -dent. I was. astonished;, editorial described this P-as P-as evasive. , After the session student stated that J , which marred the erj .. was the irrespons statement by a , itical science that. $ all the Russians, E J , atics, and "John BJ E wouldn't have anw : This was the onl y J er period to ridiculous impl'"11" ious impropriety- r..-I r..-I want to P. body officers if being inyted to ;, National Issues exchange of h0 v- number of-stud wb;r v and. Melt honored ,. of . Cleon si:' i 1 |