ts its of Jews as simply missing the on the point. arly ob- However, Hatchett has not ngs and simply missed the point. He is r continu- a racist. r to the Although we have been as some time sured by one of the most dis- and Broad- tinguished Americans of all nt doing busi- time that Hatchett "now under- I am ashamed stands the injustice and dan- must have this gers inherent in the kind of t, and it must be criticism he voices," the latter our citizenry and has already denounced the pos- -then why not at sibility of any recanting on his it over near the river part. So it must be that for will not be thrust those who do not believe that face of our visitors. the university can legitimately solution to this problem "accommodate itself to the the hands of our city legitimate demands of the black nsing bureau. community" by acting out of H. B. CANTOR fear, self-righteousness and vio- New York, Aug. 2, 1968 lation of essential (not merely status quo) standards (sacred to those who spend a lifetime General Inquiry Urged equipping themselves for acad- emic duties), there can as yet on Hatchett be no peace in the Hatchett To the Editor: affair. The New York Times and It is the university presi- New York University, in their dent's job in the first instance accounts of the John F. Hatch- "to commit himself whole- ett affair, have ignored an en- heartedly" to directing the uni- terprising interview of Mr. versity "in keeping with the Hatchett, as reported in The traditional policies" and not to Village Voice on Aug. 8, the adopt a compromise, no mat- day before the university. an- ter how decent in intent, that nounced its inevitable posture compromises this commitment. on the Hatchett appointment. It is time for this botched The value of the article lies, matter to be turned over to a in part, in its clarification of faculty committee for a general. the all-important relationship inquiry. [Editorial Aug. 12.] between Hatchett's objection- MARCUS BROWN able public statements and his Brooklyn, Aug. 10,1968 mental state. He told the re- porter, "What I have done is to criticize a group of people, Nixon's Comeback the Jews, who, they say, can- To the Editor: not be criticized." In regard to James Reston's Now, if he had not, earlier statement [news analysis Aug. in the interview, also said, 8] that Richard Nixon's nomi- among other things, "If I were nation was the greatest come- going to attack the Sanitation back since Lazarus, may we Department for poor perform- refer you to the Gospel of ance in the ghetto, one of the St. John, Chapter 11, Verse 39: "Martha, the sister of him that first things I would point out is that it is 85 per cent Italian," was dead, saith unto him, 'Lord, by this time he stinketh.'" we might be willing to dismiss URSULA and PIETER ZILINSKY the statement about criticism New York, Aug. 8, 1968