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    "ocrText": "14.\nthe presence of the strange teacher from America. The ice, however, was\nbroken on the opening day. The headmistress told me she would teach\nwith me the first day, and then would leave it with me. The first thing\nshe did was to put a problem in addition on the board, using pounds,\nshillingsgrand pence. When she saw the look of panic on my face, she\nlaughed and said to the children: 'Don't be frightened at this problem,\nchildren. Your American teacher doesn't know any more about it than you\ndo.' I shall always be deeply grateful and indebted to the Committee\nfor making this possible for me. I enjoyed every minute of it, and there\nwere tears in my eyes as Southhampton faded from view.\nThe Voice of America is another activity in which the United States\nseeks to explain its social institutions, its culture, and its national\npurposes. Radio broadcasts beamed to every-corner of the globe are\ndesigned to give the lie to the Communist charges circulated about as to\nthe effect that the United States is a warmongering aggressor, avaricious\nin motive, and too decadent to provide the creative forces and leadership\nfor a new and better world order. Through the Voice of America this\ncountry is waging a \"campaign of truth\" to rally the free peoples of the\nworld to the cause of democracy and persuade them that only in a free\nsociety can man live in dignity and real security. This \"campaign of\ntruth\" is greatly feared in the Kremlin--so much só, in fact, that the\nSoviet Government employes 1000 transmitters and over 5000 laborers in\na concentrated round-the-clock effort to jam Voice of America broadcasts.\nDespite these attempts to blackout the truth, however, American officials\nestimate that at least twenty per cent of all Voice broadcasts get through"
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