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...suggest that a plan which horrified Secretary Hull and Secretary Stimson and Secretary Byrnes, found a supporter in Mr. Conant," Flynn said, "and I submit in all fairness that if our purpose now is to rekindle the bonds of understanding between the German people and ourselves . . . and the Western World the last man to send to Germany to carry out that mission is the man who was probably the first eminent figure in the educational and intellectual world to publicly support...
...testimony, Conant denied strongly that he was ever an advocate of the Morganthau plan or had even heard about it at the time he wrote his article...
...Conant and the Schools...
Flynn based much of his argument on Conant's speech, "Unity and Diversity in Secondary Education," delivered at a meeting of the American Association of School Administrators in Mechanics Hall, Boston on April...
Flynn attacked the "incredible statement" that private schools are a divisive force, which he claims Conant made in the speech. "How a person can believe that a private school is a divisive force, I do not know, but he cannot believe that unless he believes that religion itself is a divisive force . . . (because) nine-tenths of the private schools are religious schools...