DULLES--TEACH RED FACTS EARLY

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• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: February 18, 1964
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DULLES
the John Birch Society, Miss
Kinnaird said, have de-
manded the schools remove.:
everything from play-toys to
J. D. Salinger from their
tried to hound out of-the sys-
tem as communists those
teachdrs who try to see that
all sides of an issue are pre-
sented.
. Since 1958, Miss Kinnaird
said, "textbooks have come
mclcr fire in at least a third'4
if our state legislatures.
Numerous book battles have
nsucd in local communities.
Publishers of textbooks, in
rder to sell their product,
ave too frequently sue-
umbed to the pressures. In
ne instance a publishing'
ouse deleted an entire chap-
.or on the United Nations
roin an eighth grade text-
ook."
POSSIBLE HARM
AMr. Dulles said that he
ealizcd that "the task of ?1
hose who favor teaching the
acts about communism have
)cen thwarted because such
caching has too often been
isrehresented as bein 'theg_
caching of communism."'
In urging the early teach-
ng of communism, Mr. Dulles
aid:, "I recognize the harm
hat extremists at both the
?ight and the left havt done
o the efforts of those who
dvocate more education
bout; communit methods and
echniqucs in our schools
.nd colleges. I have no use
orthe extremes of McCarthy-'
sm and Birchism, although
recognize that many well-
leaning, but misl;uided peo-
le have been deluded by
heir appeal."
FACTS
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Special to the Herald Tribune
ATLANTIC CITY N. J.
Teach the hard facts earl
bout the Communist pro-
ram to undermine our liber-
ies, said Allen W. Dulles,
ormer Director of the Cen-
ral Intelligence Agency. He
ointed out that Lee Harvey
swald "began to read Marx-
st literature in his early
eens"-on his own.
But be' careful what you
each or you'll be branded a
ommunist, said a National
education Association official.
%fter all, a woman member of
he Indiana State Board of
rducation carne out against
caching about Robin Hood
aid Kis Merry Men because
hey "held communistic
sews."
Y" LAYTOYS, TOO
The NE? official is Miss
irginia Kinnaird, who is As-
ociate Executive Secretary
f the NEA Commission on
rofessional Rights and Re-
)onsibilities, Both she and
7r. Dulles spoke yesterday at
the centennial convention of
lie American Association of
chool Administrators, which
i as attracted 23,000 educators
nd, g~egts.,..._ ._.... ~._.
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