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Commissioner Hirshfield of New York City is not the only person who wants to purify the histories used in public schools. But whereas in his recent report (TIME, June 18) he recommended that American history be retold so as to preserve a prejudice against England, others over the country are urging an effort in the contrary direction. Between the two -what...
...could the great patriotic principle of hatred of all Britishers, so dear to Mayor Hylan's educational heart, flourish under a system of international textbooks in history? What kind of hundred-per-centism could be taught in schools which looked to a world peace through understanding? Commissioner Hirshfield may well weep as he calls upon his Puritan ancestors to witness this triumph of radical propaganda...
...Times of London comments upon the virulent Anglophobia campaign being carried out by William Randolph Hearst and Mayor Hylan in the United States. The article is against a document by David Hirshfield, " The Mayor's Would-be Warwick" published in the Hearst press, to the effect " that there is a conspiracy in Great Britain and America to make the United States again part of the British Empire." Mr. Hirshfield points to eight histories which he describes as British propaganda, designed to belittle patriots of Revolutionary days and to show " that the American Revolution was merely a civil war between...
...Hirshfield had done no more he would be entitled to the undying gratitude of the people. But he has done more. He has clothed his conception in dramatic form and provided dramatis personae to act the piece. Cecil Rhodes who lured young Americans to England for propaganda purposes is the chief villain, supported in the minor roles by Andrew Carnegie, Lord Northcliffe, Sir Gilbert Parker, Lady Astor, Elihu Root, Owen Wister, Dr. Neilson of Smith, the Sulgrave Institute, the English Speaking Union, the Pilgrim Society, the Sons of St. George. Probably nothing but his artistic sense of the exigencies...
...Guiteau, Barnes. Commenting on the list, Dr. Perkins, professor of history at the University of Rochester, said: "An American history written by David S. Muzzey and contained in the proscribed blacklist is one of the very best textbooks. In fact, three of the first four books named by Mr. Hirshfield as being ' fit only to be fed to the furnace are the works of three of the most distinguished scholars in the country." Of course Dr. Perkins is wrong. But what could be expected of a man with a name like...