Evening star., 1960-10-18
LETTERS TO THE STAR
Bright and Dim Views of Candidates

and I will not be brow-beaten
by words or party. I am q
Democrat but I will vote as
an individual and put
America first.
Lawrence p. Fitzgerald
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I think Dick Nixon is a
swell feller. I think that after
he loses the election he should
become the mayor Of some
nice town. He'd make a grand
mayor. Grand.
Victor r. Hirsh
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1t is evident that the type
of fuzzy, woody thinking"
Vice President Nixon at
tributes to Senator Kennedy
is merely a reflection Of Mr..
Nixon's own thought proc
eSSes.
a This can best be illustrated
by the Vice Presidents posi-
ton regarding the islands Of
Quemoy and Matsu. Secre-
tary of State Herter, General
Mathew Ridgway, General J.
Lawrence Collins, Admiral
Raymond A. Spruance, John
Foster Dulles, General Max
well Taylor and even Presi-
dent Eisenhower have ex-
pressed agreement that these
two islands are not strategi-
cally defenSible and vital to
the security of Formosa. In
fact, General Ridgway stated
that Ito go to war for Que
may or MatSu to me would
seem an unwarranted and
tragic course. Furthermore,
the treaty that the United
States has with Nationalist
China specifically excludes
Quemoy and MatSu. Thus,
when Senator Kennedy states
that he would not risk war
over the defense of these two
islands unless they were part
of a deliberate attack against
FormoSa or the PeScadoreS,
he is baSing his opinion on
the respected advice of mill
tary experts. Now I hope that
all these top authorities were
not, as Vice President Nixon
seems to indicate. engaged in
fuzzy, wooly, thinking"
Mr.. Nixon states that he
would defend Quemoy and
Matsu as a matter of prin-
ciple. What principle? He is
not concerned about these
two pieces of real estate"
Nor is he, by his own admis-
sion, concerned about the lew
people who live on them.
They are not too important"
However, it is important to
realize that the lives of these
island people and American
lives would be lost should the
United States decide to en-
gage in warfare in defense of
these islands. This principle"
is obviously based on fancy
and not on fact.
AS Mr.. Nixon is SO fond
of making suggestions, I
would suggest that he ex-
anime his own AdminiStra-
tion's foreign policy in regard
to the defense of Quemoy and
Matsu and look before he
leaps. This is no time for
emotionalism.
Suzanne r. StaIling
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1t seems that the preSiden-
tial candidates cannot agree
on the number of hungry
people in these United States.
It would be interesting to
know how many Of our I'M
der-nouriShed citizens spend
more for cigarettes and beer
than they spend for meat.
Elmer C. Helm.
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I'm just a high school
senior, but it's plain to me
that Senator Kennedy is TAX
ing a page out of Neville
Chamberlain's book. Cham
berlain thought that the
Sudetenland was not worth
getting into a war for, either.
Quemoy and Matsu are just
another Polish Corridor"
and Senator Kennedy hasn't
even got the backbone of
Chamberlain, who knew when
the game was up.
John Floyd.
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Though what 1 would say,
has been said before, it
should be said again!
In times of danger in the
past, people were warned of
the folly Of changing horses
in the middle of the stream.
1t seems to me with condi-
tions in the world as they
are, it is emphatically a time
when citizens of the United
States should not give even
the slightest consideration to
changing of horses.
- RAfhaaHon