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RECORDING* We should find our domestic problems in education much easier of solution if we could give them our undivided attention. But these problems at home are complicated by recent developments in' international relationships, which should properly be the concern of the schools. Our leadership in the United Nations Organization, our efforts through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to join free nations in resisting totalitarian aggression, our intellectual and cultural activities in connection with UNESCO, our technical assistance under Point 4 and the Mutual Security Agency, our work in the Organization of American States, our Fulbright program for the exchange of teachers and students--all these activities and many others like them make our position of international responsibility and leadership abundantly clear. These international involvements combine with the development of telephone and radio communication and rapid transportation by air to place us politically, physically, and socially close to people everywhere. The activities of our national and personal lives affect, and are affected by, people around< the globe. And we have also become By Earl J. McGrath; U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C. , for use in series to be made available by Educational Recording Services, Los Angeles, California Recorded by U. S. Recording Company, Washington, D. -C., , January 9, 1953. 2