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OCR Page 1 of 4Statement by
Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education
Federal Security Agency
June 10, 1949
U.S. COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION COMMENTS ON
"AMERICAN EDUCATION AND INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS" -
REPORT OF THE EDUCATIONAL POLICIES COMMISSION
In response to inquiries from the press, Earl J. McGrath,
U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, today issued
the following statement:
I strongly endorse the report of the Educational Policies
Commission, "American Education and International Tensions, " including
the four-point program under the heading, the Threat of
Totalitarianism." Specifically, I agree with the statement of the
report: "Members of the Communist Party of the United States should
not be employed as teachers."
Teachers who have sworn allegiance to an organisation committed
to the destruction of American freedoms make a travesty of academic
freedom when they claim immunity under its principles to advocate their
subversive doctrine.
In this connection, however, I should like to call attention
to the threat to liberal thinking which could occur if super-sealots
should choose to hurl unfair or unfounded charges against teachers
whose views and opinions do not conform to the majority group.
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