Notes and Asides

Mr. Arnold Beichman, one of our sharpest critics who, unfortunately, doesn’t miss a thing, calls to our attention a grave injustice we recently did to Ambassador to Peru in absentia, James Loeb. national review cited as evidence of Mr. Loeb’s ineptitude a letter that he had addressed to the dean of the school of engineering at Lima, interfering with local politics. Mr. Beichman sends us a copy of the letter in question, and it is a spirited defense of the United States’ decision to resume nuclear testing, and a query to Peruvian intellectuals asking why they did not complain against the earlier decision of the Soviet Union to resume testing. We are glad to correct the record.