LETTER TO MR. HERBERT SKINNER FROM(Sanitized)

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• Publication Date: January 12, 1958
• Content Type: LETTER

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ER 11-120/a
12 January
Mr. Herbert Skinner
Sam
R. X. Skinner &
Box 177
Springfield, trio
On behalf of Kc. Dupree, I should like to
tha c you very mu>bch for your letter of 31 Decex jex
and the enclosed i:evspter clipping.
Your courtesy in writing to us is Indeed
appreciated.
Sin ely,
Assistant to t Director
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Monday, December 29, 1958
ESTABLISHED 1894
Maynard Kniskern, Editor
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THE RED THREAT IN BERLIN
Editor, The Sun:
It is not very often the free West is given a
definite period in which to meet a threat from
the Soviet East as in the case of West 1Berlin.
Khrushchev has said that by May
withdraw his Red Army from East Berlin and the
as well as the rest
it
y
f that c
administration o of East Germany will be placed in the hands of
t half of the divided
th
a
ime in
the communist reg nation.
So we have six months. What are we going
to do with that period?
There is one thing sure, we cannot sit on our
n meet the
hands. do not want to have to
d hot atomic bombs
a
iiold stee
l Red Army
c we are going tc have to move quickly.
th
we
o
p
e
An assessment of
ties b We know
l
ssibil
Iron Curtain shows many Po
the bulk of East Germans are not co a cu i s.
They would join the West if given
We know the Soviet Union is holding atelliitie
ation through the power
b
jug
s in su
nation Red Army within their borders. These suber
nationswould join the West if this military p this. w
tion in Hungary proved
The ac
was removed. ,- know there is c',issatisfaction in Russia itself. I
The doctrine lwas i supposed to help have turn d out communist]
uled by the chosen
ociety r
control te government,
g--be a classless s handful of Marxists s
cret police. These masses
the se
the military, the better
of people are 'not the ones getting paid and
living and eougation. They are poorly
poorly ,i}oused while the princes of the arty give
countries in
the fruits of their labor oreiWest.
the economic battle ag
the Communist Party
We know that within
there is dissatisfaction with the leadership since
unchan
Khrushchev. This condition is
police statee the best
the leader.
blems is through
wa
alin
s
pro
way,
w
i - cann kill every
e
o
worr
liquidations. oSo there
is always theY JouL of the opposition. powerful
that those remaining will someday grow
enough to contest the leadership:
that we know Of
These are but a few , v- nights. There
that must keep Khr about. All of
must be others we know nothing
r
.
arm
v
i
a
o
f
e
Pro
s
ence I
these are weak spots in h
sitting on our hands and waiting initiative in fact fight at
every itknown
I ing this wa we threat w take with the
our command.
By letting the satellite nations know hthem
everything within reason to help
' em we
d
rn
o
will
s that now
revamp his
throw off the cause l Khrush hev to
would quickly showing the East Germans
conquest plans. By
that they ,anaa ;,shwh n throw fArmy leaves
we would give the Soviet audit----l le how their I
By pointing out to the Russian P p
leader is sacrificing them and their wealth to
further his campaign of international communism,
we would quickly show them that he and his
regime are not even on safe ground in vast
There are those who oppose opposed broad-'
broadcasts to tianse ,trying to over brow the Jor-
casts E time has come, however,
dan government. The tim would prefer
to fight fire with fire to
-
_
s-,rt
start the fight on vie w e would have taken the
e
One thing is sure,
initiative. The t on ttthe ie , w ir Uof the enemy.
ready
far better than in
the Ad m
hl
thi
n
hig
wi
There are those
ke
t a time li y
over almost any
a
gloss
to we do
practi uncal. In anyth
lways the element of danger. Bu t
eir
the is a
he deep-
Ive succeeded heir weaknesses anbecause
thiser the coin Weiknow t
daring. of the West. Any leader who
it the fall of
th
d awa
bedded streng
an prefers to sit o quiet.s bnation and the free world
the sword is doing
an irreparable ng disservice. We are now facing
or h t rtiUP ultimatum' What are we
pu
t UP
a going to do? HERBERT K. SKINNER
Springfield.