THE TRUTH MAY FREE THEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100070024-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: June 5, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

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A5HINGTON 4, D. C.
P T rufh "- ,, Free Them
Speaking to a group of Columbia
University gradu4tes, Dirjcto' glen W.
sures that may in time compel the Krem-
lin to let iroedom ring, throughout the
people"-the clay must evitably arrive
when more andmore Russians, vast num-
bers of them, will develop more and more
doubt about the Communist tyranny and
thus set in 'motion mas$ force,$and pres-,
more trainin f the nd, given more
of that syst 'w re knowledge,,
this: That inuing growth
educational-sy' eory is simply
has advanced anTi estng and hopeful
theory regardi> rthgapossibilities inher-
ent in the So ' "Ver expanding `
Right now, of,?caur ;.his seehis; to
be a very remote prosp, at best In-
deed,. viewed in. Its- lest oisin iglu,
e of the..: ay it is rapidly c , thing
So1~iet education constitutes a sous
p tential threat, to the free wo be
v h the Yed States in developing
Ji 4C.,
Yet, with that said, Mr. Dulles has
remlin conversation in 1942, listened
o a lot of glowing statistics about Rus-?
ia's expanding school, system, and thep
bserved to his dictator-host: "If you
ontinue to educate the Russian people,
r. Stalin, the first thing you know you'll
ducate yourself
, ,out of a job." Mr.
,
illkie was in a - ntering mood at the
me, but Mr. D feels, that he may
ave been. prescie and that what Gen-
ralissimo Stalin Tearded as a joke may
ell prove to be anything but funny for
e Kretmiri in the future. True, the
oyiet* rulers still are, capable of condi-
oning the minds and controlling the
oughts'of their educated subjects, but
e process of control can hardly fail to
ecome harder and harder as time goes
z 'anal as such people grow more and
ore nur erous. Thus, with enlighten-
ent spreading throughout the country,
arxist ideology-colliding with objet-
ve truth ihh the hard challenges of
emonstratec1 knowledge-is likely to be
t increasingly, on the defensive until
retreats, soo or later, to .a point
'
here. it may W discredited altogether
d forever.
Mr. Dulles has not ventured to predict
at all this will surely. happen. But
e has, made. clear that 11e" ttaches great
portance to the idea ahs a long-range
ossibility. For. he is :convinced that
assW education=which 'they actually
urxot stop but must continue to` pro-
ote-is a threat to today's "troubled
viet leaders". and that they will hfent;e-
rth find it. "very difficult tc
~e
,
their own people' from access to-the
alities of the outside world." Perhaps
but QORG
mes of such rapid change and `flux
at nothing' seems inconceivable-not
en the eventual triumph of liberty and
uth in Russia and its satellite empire
,but we are_.ft losing it. And we are
'losing St because there has been a drastic
and' contin1 n q. I drop in the number of.
such personrier being graduated by our
schools. 73e>4,ge, as Mr. Dulles has warned,
unless we 'gttiokly take new measures to
increase dttr own facilities and reverse.
the pre8ent trend, the Kremlin's scien-
tific manpower is likely to be greater
than ours within, the coming decade-
a fact that could be most ominous in the
atomic-hydrogen age.
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e still have ": the lead in that respect,