Evening star., 1960-10-20

in our erratic foreign policy
through the decades.
II Kennedy and Nixon will
reopen the Quemoy-Matsu
issue in another debate, and
Mr.. Kennedy is adequately
briefed. he could make clear
how the American people
have been made suckers by
one, sly. almost diabolically
clever Chinese warlord.
Mr.. Nixon would not want
to pursue the Quemoy-Mat-
su issue long If Senator Ken
nedy would underscore how
former Senator William
Knowland. the Republican
Majority Leader for two
years. was the acknowledged
representative of the China
Lobby" in the Senate for
some years and that the
voters Of California in 1858
declined to elect THE Sen
ator from Formosa" to be
their Governor.
The Democrats might well
ask If Nixon is now running
for the ofiice Of President Of
Formosa. The two tiny is
lands in question have served
q wonderful purpose both for
the Chinese Communists on
the mainland and for Chi
ang Kai-shek. The Commu-
niStS have used them as peril
points to keep their own peo-
pie inflamed against Chang.
At the same time, Chang,
through his China Lobby"
has been able to get un-
counted millions from us
because of the existence Of
the two islands which con-
Stantly are being, or can be,
threatened" If the islands
themselves were to disappear
in q tidal wave, nobody in
this country without an axe
to grind would miss them.
LarstOn ID. FarraF
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I wish to protest the ex.
tremely poor taste on SEN
ator Kennedy's paid politi-
cal announcement which
pre-empted the last 1ive
minutes Of Whats My Line"
For Senator Kennedy cal
louSly to use the suffering
Of bereaved war mothers in
attaining personal ambitions
is shocking to the viewer and
degrading to the unfortunate
mothers.
Dee COrbin.
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Kennedy seems to be set
ting up 'bogey men and then
telling everybody that he,
Jack the Giant Killer" will
knock them down If elected.
He says this is a time for
greatness" and this is 1882
: all over again and implying
he is another Roosevelt.
Well, this isn't 1892.
What is this modern Pied
Piper going to save us from?
Seven and one-half years of
peace. and the greatest pros
perity in the country's his
tory? On the issue of peace
and our present troubles
what comes to mind first?
Teheran, Yalta, PotSdam, the
"China Deal" etc. Kennedy
says all we need is strength
to deal with these people.
Well, we had strength at
Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam
and in some of these situa-
tions We had the atomic
bomb which Russia didn't
achieve until years later. We
lost the Balkan countries be-
cause Churchill's advice
wasn't needed. The Korean
war could have been pre-
vented except for some mud.
died thinking by Truman
and Acheson. A "cold war"
is preferable to a "hot" one
any day in the week and in
every prolonged crisis the
Democratic Party has been
involved in in the past so
years we have ended up in a
"hot" war and even in one
of these the Republicans res
cued us.
E. p. Webb.
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Why does Mr.. Nixon try to
convince the people that
party labels should not be
taken into consideration
when voting for q President?
Doesn't he want to be iden-
titled with the party that has
produced Harding, Hoover,
and Eisenhower
Martin M. Weinstein.
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Instead of the "Great De-
bate" the audience is listen
ing to two bulls In the china
shop.
Zack Spratt.