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Re: \ See atee ate dabwressouniey! shanna tes LT UE Lae ad "These critics contend that if such individuals are in fact guilty and yet cannot successfully be brought to trial, the laws should be changed and that the making of such legislative recommendations is the true function of the committee, "Your editorial of Jan. 19 on the subject of the PTA meeting ceplored the failure of the University of Michigan to provide guidance that would keep students such as my son from becoming misled and hence involved in such ‘risky political flirtations.' On this point I might mention that Kenneth is a senior majoring in political science, and is associate city editor of the Michigan Daily. I have found that, regardless of his youth (to which the’ PTA panel seemed to attach significance), he is very well informed about Communist front organizations and their machinations, and I think is as concerned about © the over-all Communist menace as any person in Battle Creek. In any event, in view of the authorities which support his side of the controversy, the soundness of your editorial conclusions would seem to,open to some question. ; he "TJ do not think any of us, or the government itself, has the complete answer as to the best methods of fighting the Soviet threat in all of its manifestations. The com- plexity ef the problem demands informed opinion and the clearest possible understanding of the people. This can only be achieved by reading and listening to all sides of the issues, and by intelligent discussion and debate. "Let, us not become so obsessed with our fears that we equate honest criticisms of some of the methods being used to meet the threat, with aid and comfort to the enemy. Let us never reach the point in this country. where, as is the case in the Soviet Union, any element or agency of government is immune from informed criticism by the people it serves, and this applies even to a con- gressional committee or the FBI, Let us remember that these agencies, after all, are made up of human beings, who, like the rest of us, are not always infallible. -- WALTER H, McELDOWNEY, Route 4, Box 815." -ll-— nmin . 2% Be a re rr ee ae ee ee I tr RR err gee ee OE pas . . , oo Ce " . = 7 i Sars *