Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17
LETTERS TO THE STAR


How low have we sunk when
our Chief Executive can
shake hands with and en-
terrain a man who has MUIR
dered thousands of people
and has boasted that he will
bury" us?
Why should the taxpayers
and decent citizens Of this
country have to put UP the
money to entertain and ac-
tually protect the life of this
murderer?
Linda Mcclure Woods.
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It is too late now to con-
slider the wisdom of extend
ing to Khrushchev an invita-
ton to visit our country, but
we can do certain things
when he comes. We can, and
should, treat him with pune
tilious courtesy because he is
an invited guest. Since few
people in. the United States,
however, wish to consort with
a murderer, q liar and q
thief, it follows that we
should not honor him further
than has already been done
by asking him here as a
guest. It is unthinkable to me
that he should be the guest
of honor at functions not
strictly and solely official.
such as are being proposed
by businessmen and others
throughout the Nation.
! would like to see Khru-
shchev confronted with a
wall of complete indifference.
except for reporting the &C
tual facts of his visit. There
should be neither praise nor
censure, and everything
possible should be done to
prevent him from making
his visit q basis for his we'll
known propaganda. Of which
he is o master. Because we
are a reasonably honest and
fair-minded people we can
not excel or even match him
in the field of propaganda
and, at all costs, we should
avoid being taken In by any
of his proposals until they
have resulted in positive.
clear-cut action; for the man
is a conslimmate liar and
from all indications has no
comprehension of what we
mean by honesty"
E. r. Ballinger.
It is regrettable that when
Khrushchev arrives in WASH
ington in his official capacity
as Prime Minister Of the
USSR, Congress- may no
longer be in session. How
ever, this unfortunate Situa-
ton may very well be REM
edied by inviting Mr.. Khru-
shchev to appear before one
of the congressional commit
tees, thus keeping him in the
limelight.
The Committee on Internal
Security would be the most
appropriate one to extend
the invitation. Mr.. Khru-
shchev, as chairman Of the
Central Committee Of the
Communist Party Of the
Soviet Union and boss of the
world Communist movement,
could perform q signal serv-
ice to the cause of peace
and friendship by supplying
many a missing link in the
investigations Of the COM
mittee which has amassed
evidence ON incidents of Com
munist subversion, sedition,
spying, arousing of inter-
racial hatred, etc. in this and
other countries. An addition
al point: AS a foreigner, Mr..
Khrushchev could not claim
the privileges Of the Fifth
Amendment.
Charles Collins.
y IS
The President pulled the
biggest blooper of the century
by inviting Khrushchev here,
thereby skyrocketing his wan
ing prestige at the expense
of the oppressed, enslaved
peoples of Europe and Asia.
OF all the naive reasons
for having the Russian die
tator here, that of visiting
strategic air bases is the most
inane. Naturally, Khrushchev
rejected Secretary McElroy's
invitation, for the Soviet
leader doubtlessly has seen
them in pictures and movies
brought to him by his dip
lomatic couriers. Then, too,
he doesn't want Eisenhower
looking at his.
AS for seeing how the West
lives, don't you suppose
Khrushchev knows? On his
visit there several years ago,
KhruShchev saw England's
cottages, manors, industrial
completes. and cities similar
to those in America. Angry,