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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...What works one place won't necessarily work elsewhere: "Foreign aid . .. is not some sort of patent remedy. It is not an independent and foolproof device, guaranteed to have universal validity and to produce certain calculable results ... To attempt to standardize its application would not be consistency-it would be applied fallacy...
There was no need for this sort of measure in in 1948. There was none in 1949. There is still none. There are sufficient laws now to curb really subversive teachers: the Teacher's Oath of 1935, the Smith Act, all the laws against advocating the overthrow of the government by force and violence. And there is certainly no special emergency. One of the supporters of the bill, testifying at the hearing, admitted that he had no evidence of communist infiltration into schools...
...would be pleasant to dismiss these bills as a sort of yearly madness, but they are turned out by serious people who really believe they know best what should and should not be taught. The College community got worried about the Barnes and Sullivan Bills and was right in doing so. It ought to get worried about the Lally-Concannon bill and two similar proposals which are awaiting action by the Education Committee. Unless people stay worried about this kind of legislation, "academic freedom" will someday be only a vestigial phrase...
...course, General Marshall might like this sort of thing...
...have to change its position, and accept modification of the U.N. plan. Russia now has the bomb; postponement of control merely allows the USSR to catch up with our bomb production. Also, there has been pressure from Western bloc nations, who fear atomic war with Russia, for some sort of control soon. Off the record, U.S. delegates in the UN have already stated that they may accept several modification: 1) allocation of production by bi-lateral treaties between the Commission and nations; 2) punishment to be left to the countries in which the violation occurs. The U.S. delegates may have...