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LEITERS TO THE EDITOR
New China
1
read with great interest
your article "The New China
Reaches Out" in your April
edition. While
1
agree with
most that was said,
1
can't
understand why the great
murders that occurred in
China are not mentioned.
Your magazine should come
out and condemn this, or al
lcast mention the price that
was paid by the Chincse
people for their "victory."
Here are the facts
(according to the
Guinness
Book of Records):
26,300,000
Chinese werc killcd during the
Mao Tse-tung revolution
between 1949 and 1965.
( lncidentally those are figures
released by the Russians.) lf
we only take the Russian
figures, this is a high price
which should not have been
overlooked in your article.
lt
ís high time for your magazine
to speak up for those millions
who were killed in the name
of "progress and peace."
B.A. Fischbach
Port Moody, British Columbia
•
The principal purpose
behind the article "The New
China Reaches Out" was
10
give readers of
The Plain
Truth
a c/ear picture of lhe
social and economic direcrions
in which 1he People's
Republic of China is headed.
The editors did not intend 10
de/ve into China's checkered
past. Al/ nalions have
skelelons in their closets,
sorne more numerous than
others. Al/ men and nations
"have sinned and fa
I/
short of
the glory of God." One of the
grearest impediments to
international understanding is
the continua/ reference ro the
historica/ faults and past
shortcomings of other nations
and peoples.
Po land on Map
1 would likc to bring to
your attention the issue of
44
May 1984, page JI, which
shows a map of Europe in
1942 cxplaining via color the
Axi s and Allied control of
Europe al that time.
1
was
appalled by seeing part of
Poland marked red which
comes under t he beading
Germany, Italy, and their
allies.
The way you have depicted
the si tuation in the color
scheme, anyone not
knowledgeable of Poland and
Poland's part in World War
11
would immediately assume
that Poland was allied with
Germany. Rather than
showing part of Poland
marked in red, it should have
come under t he yellow stating,
"Arcas under Axis control."
That is exactly what Poland
was-a captive nation- a
nation of people who fought
the Nazi war machine.
Chester Grabowski
Editor
in
Chief,
Post Eagle
Clifton, New Jersey
•
With lhe destruction of
the Polish military
establishment near the end of
September
1939.
the Soviet
Union and Nazi Germany
signed an agreement that
abolished Poland as a Stale
and carved up Polish lands
between them. By the terms of
the partition treaty, most of
eastern Poland was allocated
to the U.S.S. R. Western and
central Polish /ands went ro
Germany. Nearly half of the
region awarded to Germany
was incorporaled into the
Third Reich by outright
annexation. The remainder
became a German
proteclorate. Al/
administration was in German
hands.
In showing a porlion of
Polish /ands in red on our
map, we were not implying
thal Poland was an al/y of
Nazi Germany, but ralher
1hat the area involved had
become forcedly an
integral
part
of the German Reich. No
one map can lell the whole
historical slory. Also, the
word
Poland
was placed
in
parentheses
on our map. We
used the parentheses 10 show
1ha1 Poland as a po/itica/
entity had ceased to exist,
and to indicate only rhe
geographical region of
partilioned Poland. Many
historica/ atlases depict the
situation in this way. Perhaps
adding the phrase "and
incorporated areas" to the
definition of the red-colored
areas would have further
c/arified the situation.
Terrorism
1
just read the interview
with Mr. Christopher Dobson
in your May issue, and it was
really a great surprise for me
that Mr. Dobson did not say
even a word about the
Armenian terrorísts who have
assassi nated nearly 30 innocent
Turkish diplomats in over 50
assaults for the past five or six
years. While listing the
countries that give shelter to
terrorists, Mr. Dobson did not
include France, which is,
nowadays, much more than a
shelter for the Armenian
terrorists.
1
have once written another
letter about thc article
"Seeing the World Through
lslamic Eyes," stating a fact
that the only entirely secular
Moslem country is Turkey,
but my letter was not
published then.
1
hope you'll
publish my letter this time.
Serdar Ulger
ls tanbul, Turkey
Nineteen Years Later
1
was a listener of your
program in the 1960s and the
last magazine
1
received was
in 1965. This was due to a
change of address. As
predicted in the 1965 issue
there is vast unemployment
today; there are arcades which
are full of fruit machines and
other sources of gambling
equipment. People in general
are getting no richer in wealth
or their knowledge. The
streets are full of crime, etc.
1
do wish people would take this
magazine seriously.
1
have missed not having an
up-to-date copy of
The Plain
Truth.
1
was unsure whether
you were still printing until
1
happened to see a friend with
a copy.
1
was very pleasantly
surprised to see the magazine
is still in existence.
Miss l . Prescot
London
Ne wsstand Reader
1
first picked up a copy of
The Plain Truth
in
Kensington High Street.
1
found it extremely interesting
and am now asking you to
enroll me in your
Correspondence Course.
1
have enclosed a list of free
booklets which
1
would very
much like to read.
1
would
appreciate it if you would send
them tome. My life is one
mass of questions al the
moment and
1
hope these will
help me. Thank you for your
wonderful magazine, which
has brought me back to
God.
Berlln
Ms. A. Negus
Enfield, Middlesex
Thank you for your very
interesting and illuminating
article on divided Berlín in the
May 1984 issue. As a first
gencration American, 1 have
been constantly in the habit of
voraciously reading anything
about Deutschland.
In your article " Excl usive
lnterview: Terrorism in the
'80s" you misspelled the
Baader Meinhoff gang. Your
article had it "Bader."
lt
hurts
press credibility when
something is not spelled
properly.
Radd
Zedrik
Saco, Ma ine
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