To the Editor:
The man who reviewed The Plotters is intellectually dishonest. He is dishonest because after seeking to convey the completely false impression that I am, or have been, pro-Communist, he neglects to mention that I thoroughly denounced American Communists and the Communist philosophy in a lengthy chapter entitled “The American Communist Party.”
This chapter has aroused the furious action of the comrades against me. I have at no time been pro-Communist, despite the crackpot views of your reviewer—views which are shared by the Chicago Tribune, the hate-mongers, and others who turn for misinformation to the columns of the nationalist vermin press. Equally deplorable is the judgment and intellectual honesty of an editor who opens the columns of his magazine to the fulminations of the vermin press.
John Roy Carlson
New York City
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Mr. Carlson’s letter arrived when this issue was on the press. We have asked Mr. Petersen, who reviewed Mr. Carlson’s book, to write a reply for our next issue.
Because of limitations of space, we must again defer to a later issue a number of letters discussing Will Herberg’s article, “From Marxism to Judaism.”—ED.
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