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...much more controversial principle: "We believe that the President and Corporation will preserve an atmosphere in which the right of a teacher to retain his position will not be questioned as long as he does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths.' At first glance, this is innocuous enough. But theses ideas have inevitably been the preamble to a resolution against discharging teachers who are members of the Communist Party. Regardless of the merits of this stand...
...sentence of the second paragraph: "We believe that (the President and the Corporation) will preserve an atmosphere in which the right of a teacher to retain his position will not be questioned as long as he does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort the facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths...
Last week the President also: ¶ Released an outline of the policy of the United States Information Agency. The U.S. propaganda program will concentrate on "explaining and interpreting to foreign peoples the objectives and policies of the United States Government." and "unmasking and countering hostile attempts to distort or to frustrate the objectives and policies of the United States." ¶ Listened for 30 minutes to Elder Socialist Norman Thomas, who came to the White House to protest an assertion by Security Officer Scott McLeod that Socialists would be barred from policymaking jobs in the State Department. Reported Thomas: "I told...
...fact is, though, that education is a misunderstood team. By long usage, it has been shorn of its rich meaning and puffed up into one of those empty abstractions which multiply confusion and distort thought. Who can say what it means to the people who are so zealous for their children's attaining a college diploma, or to those to whom Education of the People is society's cure-all? Vocational training, perhaps, or the ability to quote Homer or recollect statistics from so-and-so's history of the U.S. manganese industry, or "soundness" on current problems, or contacts...
...demanded that the testimony be made public. But McCarthy refused to do so unless Wechsler "completed his testimony," i.e., made a list of the others who were active in the Young Communist League with him. Wechsler agreed to list them, because "I do not propose to let you distort or obscure the clear-cut issue of freedom of the press involved in this proceeding." McCarthy answered him in a mocking wire, addressed to "Arthur Lawson, Editor, New York Post," since "that was Wechsler's Young Communist League name." McCarthy also remarked that he does not regard newspapermen...