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Re RE rr YEW ATS iat oor ent RP * “wi rt - ery oe. a. o-}7 (Rev, 7-18-56} Letters to the Editor’ » - Sbooner., Se me Questions for Mrs*Roosevelt IF Mrs. Roosevelt were to document her materia) as esrefully as the authors of The Firing Line for The American Legion do, she would not resort to an un- restrained attack of “de. nounce but do not deny” In her column on Dec. 8 in The News. The Firing Line fs factual. Mis. Rooseveli docs not deny this. She just berates Its publication. The current issue deals with how certain religious leaders have lent their pres- tige fo the communist cam- paign to secure the admission of Red China into the United Nations and recognition of Red China by the United States, The tenor of her article in- dGicafes she believes such facts should be suppreseed despite freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and ali our fine constitutional dib- erties, -" Rrs. Roosevelt also dis- lays her lack of understand. ng of communism when she writes “No one who has ever been in a country where free. dom exists, and has known the fee} of it, will be iempied to accept the material benefits offeicd by communism as a subsijtute for freedom.” Apparently this well trav- eled author fails to realize that comouinism |< not “ac- topic?” Jt is imposed by deceit, treachery, aubveixion, expiconare, a any other means st the disposal of the communist apparatus. Most ef the people now Ihing under communism knew a far giester freedom uricr any other system. But now i _Latiera to the Editor, to be considered for pub- Nealion, muet bear the writer's. name end aed- drest. However, these will be withheld if the writer so requesis. Piease keep letters brief. The Editor reserves the right fo cut them. they are slaves to the com- not by “ae- munist state, ceptance™ but by forcible im- posiijon as she should know, Must nearly every publica- tion that attempts to remove the communist deceptive dis- guives be subjecied to vili- jeation by Mrs, Roosevelt? Ix she afraid to have the subscribers fo The Firing Line read documenied = in- formation that unmasks the communist tactics in carry- Ing out their “peace of- fensives?" _ REX B. FINLEY Chairmen. Americsnisam Commission Tne Ameritan Legion. Department of the inetrict of Celungia They Had to ‘Accept?’ Communism or Else MARS. F. D. R. asks, “Does t the American Legion really believe we are in dan- er of becoming communists in this country?” Apparent- fy, she does not believe so, because she cays, “No one who has ever been in a coun- try where freedom exists will ever be fempted to accept ihe material benetits offered by communism.” Doesn't Mra | Roosevelt know that the people of no country have ever accepted communnism? Jt has been forced on them by a small minority. Hurray for the Legion! GEO. REYNOLDS Commissioner Lee on the ‘False Alorm’ T HAVE etudied vour edito 4 rial “False Alarm” which appeared on Dec. 1, relaijve to the false alarm sounded on sirens and in many, Gov- emment buildings. IT think we all may have learned some lessons from the mistake which activaicd our alerting system. I trust that we will benelit fron the grim experience. Mention was made in your ediiorial of & toncern for the fact that CONELRAD did not 39 into operation on 640 and 240 kilocycles to warn Wash- ingion the alext was false. To clear up any misappre- hension, I should like fo call attention to the fact that pro vision is made for CONEL- RAD to go into operation only during a radio alert declared by military officials, Hence, the system is maintained with a relatively high degree of reliability against false alerting. | was relieved when I tu in my radio to leain that CONELRAD was not in operation. To me this meant that the alert was not genu- ne. . It i¢ my opinion that were an unauthorized CONELRAD ration to have gone inlo effect, it would have contri- buted to the alarn snd con- fusion of the Washington citl renry, However, nothing {o my knowledge served to pre- vent the radio stallions from broadcasting frequent news bulieiins informing their tix feners of the (rue ¢ireum- stance. I am leased to teke {nis riunity to explain s aspect of AD to your readers. ROBERT E. LEE. Defense Commi*renrr. Feeders) Commenters ions Commicnen. tae | not ESCAPE EV mpre 29 1958 W.C. Sullivan. | Tele. Room .— Holloman Gandy f N Ve A ori J . a , f* S Ae Ry Wash. Post and ——— Times Herojd Wosh, News a Wash. Star a! VY. Herald e¥e £6 CFs eee Tribune N. Y. Journal- American N.Y. Mirror ————_ N. Y¥. Daily News —— N. Y. Times ———— - Daily Worker The Worker New Leader -————— i Date ne tie