To the Editor:

I would like to commend David Horowitz [“Nicaragua: A Speech to My Former Comrades on the Left,” June] for his intellectual courage in repudiating his earlier pro-Communist views, and for his realization that firm anti-Communism is the only sane position for the Western democracies. In this, Mr. Horowitz is in the tradition of the great anti-Communists of the 20th century, who also underwent profound conversions: Arthur Koestler, Whittaker Chambers, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. . . .

Mr. Horowitz will no doubt be attacked by today’s fellow-travelers, but he should nevertheless be proud to embrace his new position, knowing the empirical evidence is on his side.

William Doino, Jr.
Weston, Connecticut

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