Show Letters to the Editor Hesitating Although I have been a member of the National Guard for the past five I would like to add a hesitating second to the letter of I do not condone the absurd over-statement and over-simplification of which they have been but I think a good points lurks somewhere in their letter that should be made perhaps more temperately than they have seen fit to AT THE which I the main speaker gave reasonable and objective evaluation of Communist philosophy and this lecture was followed by a slide which I any thinking man would consider an This slide show condemned almost without distinction the Communist the Communist spy the Presidential administrations of Roosevelt and Truman and any fool who would like to approach the threat of the Communist movement It applauded almost with out distinction Chiang-Kik the Hungarian and flag-waving IT HAS BEEN the official position of the past two administration to live in peaceful co-existence with the Communist and one of the greatest barriers to this has been the fear of the United States citizens for Russian I feel that such as the slide-show I which has the single purpose of promoting the unreasoning fear of the American people for the Russian people should be But I feel equally as strongly that anything which is genuinely informative such as Chaplain Bennett's main should be I feel that any which have been made in numerous quarters quite on the part of Army leaders to express national foreign policy should be But equally I feel that in cases not involving the national Army leaders should have as much right as anyone else to express facts and to express their so long as they make it clear that these are their personal views only and not the official position of the the National or what have WILLIAM THACKERY |