Letters to the Editor

To the Editor: C. L. Sulzberger's Aug. 18 column, “First Nixon, Then Shriver,” unwittingly pinpoints the unfortunate preoccupation of this Administration, namely, its luckless obsession with “foreign affairs.”

If Milovan Djilas feels the United States has “won the cold war,” I would ask him the spoils of this “victory.”

His premise, that “race and class and generation gaps do exist but there is no fundamental crisis,” exhibits more than a “profound thinker” at work. It shows us a man who—like Mr. Nixon, Mr. Kissinger, indeed Mr. Sulzberger himself—is all but envious to America's domestic perils.

If the “so‐called crisis in American society is largely imaginary” then would propose a tour for this “broad spectrum of opinion overseas.” Let it commence with a close‐up inspection of the South Bronx—and conclude with a submarine voyage through the murky confines of Lake Erie.

George McGovern boasts no “cold war” admirers. And I fervently hope his first administration will keep this slate clean.

DOUGLAS BRIN New York, Aug. 18, 1972