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...practices, and has said so. It has also said that it will not extract compliance at the expense of breaking national fraternity affiliations. Its strategy has been to attempt persuasion and to hope that religious and racial barriers will gradually disappear. So far progress has been slow, but administrative spokesmen are not yet discouraged...
Such problems as these, which point almost inevitably to the conclusion that even separate but equal facilities can never raise educational standards of the Negro to those of the white, are ignored by the white leaders in their fixation with a principle. And even the spokesmen for the integration viewpoints tend to forget the complexities of the situation in their enthusiasm for ending the dual school system. Yet it has been decisively shown by Ferguson and Plaut, in a survey of 32 public high schools in 11 northern states, that only 53 of 3,300 Negro seniors finished...
Meanwhile, Administration spokesmen, including the President, were deliberately misrepresenting the number of employees fired under the Eisenhower program and were trying to place sole responsibility on the Democrats for the fact that the government has been "honeycombed with Communists." Administration figures on security firings ranged from 1,459 up to 9,600, but Congressional findings last year revealed that only 342 employees had actually been removed as security risks. And many of these, it was discovered, had been hired since 1953. When this information was made public, the Administration hastily ceased its allegations but never offered to correct its misleading...
Sunbathed Neutrals. The Dulles decision won hearty approval in Congress, where cotton-state legislators are nervous about cotton-growing Egypt and where Zionist spokesmen have held Nasser to be the Middle East's archvillain. The Sen ate Appropriations Committee earlier had been so bold as to "order" Dulles not to make the Aswan loan from Mutual Security funds. Dulles firmly resisted such an unconstitutional demand. But the whole argument became academic when Dulles decided, for foreign policy reasons...
...educationists now brewing Bold New Experiments for the public schools, few have won quite so controversial a reputation as Professor Theodore Brameld of New York University's School of Education. At 52 he is one of the chief spokesmen for an extraordinary doctrine called reconstructionism−a philosophy that wants to revolutionize the world's whole concept of education. In his latest book (Toward a Reconstructed Philosophy of Education; Dryden; $4.50), readers can not only learn what reconstructionism is, but just what would happen to education if its adherents got their...