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• The following iettre appeared in Sunday's Star, written by Efijin Grose close, of “Trianon,” Rappahannock county.
On July 6 there appeared a letter from the religious consultant to the Voice of America, the Rev. Albert Joseph McCartney, LL.D., in defense of the broadcasts of Moslem religious propaganda by the Voice. The letter was in reply to a protest in your columns by “one” Elgin Groseclose (happily or unhappily there is only one Elgin Groseclose) that such broadcasts were improper, unrepresentative of American culture, an un constitutional use of public moneys, and that their hypocrisy created sentiments of cynicism and resentment abroad rather than good will.
The defense offered by the Voice to these criticisms, through its distinguished religious consultant, while lame, is a wholesome sign that this travesty of Amencan life may receive more atten- • tion from the public than it has and that the Voice may begin to examine more deeply what it tries to reflect.
The distinguished religious consultant says of the broadcasts that “we strive to present a balanced picture of religious life in America.” By what logic can it be said that sermons on Islam by such foreigners as Iman Hiratuddin of
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