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    "ocrText": "2.\ncollege and üniversity students, the need for international exchange\nprograms in education- -may seem to you only remotely related. But in my\nmind they all bear directly on our present and future efforts to win the\nconflict with communism--and to preserve our free society in a free\ncommunity of nations. We cannot afford to neglect these matters for\nothers that may momentarily seem more urgent or more important.\nThe first matter in this short list grows out of the idea that\nbecause we are now engaged in a large mobilization effort involving the\nexpenditure of billions of dollars we must, or can afford to, make further\nretrenchments in our expenditures for education and other cultural\nactivities. The word \"retrenchment\" is used designedly because although\nthe total sums expended for education in the United States have increased\nin recent years, the actual percentage of our national product expended\nannually for education has fallen. In 1940, for example, we spent 3.2 per\ncent for education and in 1950, 2.6 per cent. This may not appear to be\na significant drop but when it is recalled that six-tenths of one per cent\nwill this year be related to a national product of some $279,800,000, this\nsmall percentage is of obvious significance. Unless expenditures for\neducation are not only continued at this present level but increased during\nthe present emergency, our school system which is the bedrock of our\ndemocratic social order will be irreparably damaged. Indeed, serious\ndamage has already been done. I could take this occasion to prove this\npoint by reference to the general condition of education in many sections\nof the country. It would be possible to show that without general Federal\naid for education millions of our youngsters will not have the basic\neducation which we as a Nation have considered an individual right and"
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