DULLES TEACH RED FACTS EARLY

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• Document Release Date: December 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: February 18, 1964
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CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
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G2YSHT
TEACH .RE.
co. g
nsibilities. Both she and all
'Ir. Dulles spoke yesterday at forthe extremes of McCarthy-
he centennial convention of ism and Birchism, although
he American Association of I recognize that many well-
chool Administrators, which n1C.L111119, but miskuided peo-
as attracted 23,000 educators ple have been deluded by
their appeal."
lid gue; ts. .
f the NEA Commission on tecbnigl.ies in our schools
rofessional Rights and Re- d '1 es I have no use
'the John Birch Society, Miss
Kinnaird said, have de-
mantled the schools remove
everything from play-toYs to
Salinger from their
j
D
.
.
tried to hound out of.the sys-
tens as 'communists those
teachers who try to see that
all sides of an issue are pre-
sented.
Since 1958, miss Kinnaird
said. "textbooks have collie
unde'? fire in at least a third
of our state legislatures.
Numerous book battles have
ensued in local communities.
fishers of textbooks, in
order to se Mew pro
have too frequently suc-
cumbed to the pressures. In
one instance a publishing'
house deleted an entire chap-
ter on the United Nations
from an eighth grade text-
POSSIBLE HARM
But be careful w a yo Al,-. Dulles said that he
t ach or you'll be branded a
ommunist, said a National realised that "the task of
ducation Association official. those who favor teaching the .
. fter all, a woman member of facts about communism have
t e Indiana State Board of been thwarted because such
duration came out against teaching has too often been
t aching about Robin Hood misrepresented as bein 'theg
ud His Merry Men because teaching of communism.' "
hey "held communistic Ir urging the early teach-
ews." ing of communism, Mr. Dulles
PLAYTOYS, TOO said: "I recognize the harm
that extremists at both the
The NEA official Is Miss right and the left havt done
irginia Kinnaird, who is As- to the efforts of those who
ociate Executive Secretary advocate more education
about communit methods and
FACTS
EARLY.
Special to the Herald Tribunt
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.
Teach the a.r
a )out the Communist pro
g am to undermine our liber
t s, said Allen W. Dulles
f rmer Director of the Cen
t al Intelligence Agency. H
inted out that Lee Harve
swald "began to read Marx
I t literature in his early
t ens"-on his own.
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