TRYING TO DISTORT AMERICAN HISTORY
Miller, Charles Grant
Trying to Distort American History Alteration of Text Books is the Result of Insidious Operations of Pro-British Societies Working for an "International Mind" By CHARLES GRANT MILLER THE...
...The international mind" sought to be established through these influences is always the British mind...
...Its character, purpose and financial backing may be known from the fact that its chairman, George W. Wickersham, is also chairman of the English-Speaking Union...
...The glory of Paul Jones' capture of the Serapis might stir improper admiration for American valor and undesired confidence in American achievement against heavy odds...
...From our school readers "The Ride of Paul Revere" is disappearing, but not "The Charge of the Light Brigade...
...The detailed alterations made in school history illustrate this with startling clearness...
...Sons of St...
...The stealthy alteration of the text books through which our nation's founders are defamed, our annals distorted and our policies perverted to the minds of our youth did not come by chance coincidence but as a result of activities that are also insidiously operative in Other directions...
...George and from a Daughter of the American Revolution who is...
...Adults of today, our fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers absorbed its virile spirit...
...and The Churclf Peace Union,' which has a $2,-000,000 fund to pay the expenses of England and American ministers of note to cross and recross the Atlantic, to occupy famous pulpits, to speak before ministers' meetings and to receive honorary degrees at universities...
...The international minded revisionists of our school histories who dismiss John Hancock as a "smuggler," Thomas Jefferson as "a liar, demagogue and atheist," Patrick Henry as "gay, unprosperous and unknown," and Alexander Hamilton as one who held that "the people are a great beast" all highly laud Pitt, Burke, Fox and other British statesmen as the really effective forces for American freedom...
...George r¥% HE stated purposes of these propaganda * organizations range all the way from specious cultivation of "more friendly relations between Great Britain and the United States" to fulfillment of the Carnegie prophecy of "the reunited states, the British-American Union" and the Cecil Rhodes design of "the recovery of the United States as an integral part of the British Empire...
...English-Speaking Union...
...The sublime courage of the patriot militiamen at Bunker Hill, who resisted three times their number of trained British soldiery unt'i their powder was gone, makes improper appeal to American youth because it inculcates militant spirit, according to the international mind...
...It is said that it is not good for our children to know and admire the indomitable courage and heroic sacrifices at Valley Forge, and so they are now taught instead that complainings and mutiny were rife and that "one in every five deserted...
...There have been established local committees in five hundred American communities...
...Aside from the strictly educational foundations there are notably these Carnegie organizations for propaganda: Division of intercourse and education...
...On the contrary, America has been exceptionally at peace...
...Saratoga and Yorktown must be obscured, but never Trafalgar or the defeat of the Armada...
...The Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury is president, and the first secretary is the Right Honorable Sir William H. Dickinson, K. B. E. London...
...last few years it has emerged from obscurity through a hard drive for increased membership and vfgorous assertion of British spirit...
...The secret methods can be traced through their results...
...America, it is insistently striving to strengthen the nationalism of Great Britain...
...Trying to Distort American History Alteration of Text Books is the Result of Insidious Operations of Pro-British Societies Working for an "International Mind" By CHARLES GRANT MILLER THE Anglicization of American school history, which has been exposed through the Hearst newspapers and condemned hy all of the great national patriotic organizations and school boards of New York city and elsewhere, is only one manifestation of the carefully organized and heavily financed movement to denationalize America...
...It issues to its members a magazine, The Landmark, which has bitterly attacked as "demagogic" and "narrow minded" the popular movement to restore true American history to our public schools...
...Every laurel that it can snatch from American heroism it transfers at once to British heroism...
...To encourage "intellectual disarmament," American children must be denied knowledge of the brave and triumphant stand of Jackson and his 2,200 backwoodsmen against "the flower of the British army," 10,000 strong, at New Orleans, and be taught that "all the Americans had to do to win a victory was to hold their ground," while "the invaders came on like British soldiers, and like British soldiers they came again and again and offered up their lives for their king...
...Stock phrases with them are "the international mind," "a commonwealth of nations," and "intellectual disarmament...
...Efforts Are Tremendous I"* HE stealthy and shameful alterations of * American school histories as result of such influences is, of course, only one manifestation of the methods and aims of these many British propaganda organizations operating in the United States...
...Like designs are working against Lincoln, for whom there is now being provided an English lineage and an English ancestral home, as a shrine where expatriate Americans may bend the sycophantic knee in foolish worship of supposed English influences that are said to have freed our slaves and saved our Union...
...When England has failed successfully to damn with defamation any American and his triumphant policies, she simply claims him as an Englishman who has been putting English principles into American practice...
...Some of the methods are open, others secret, but all sinister and to the one end...
...Anthem Attacked fi'T'HE international mind" is a British mind * throughout...
...Within the...
...Here at last is one whose astral spirit might appreciate the patronizing "compliment...
...and so our children are taught instead that "British pluck triumphed...
...Anything else is but "narrow national self-esteem" and "inimical to international good wilL" This international good will does not embrace France...
...The American Association for International Co-operation has just started a circularizing campaign to build up an influential membership...
...We have had our patriotic history through several generations...
...The Pilgrim society, in connection with manifold other delusions, is busily disseminating the doctrine that all American institutions that are good came over in the Mayflower, and that the time is near at hand for the Mayflower bo re-embark its cargo and return to the "mother country...
...Carnegie Methods NEXT, it ought to be easy to find in England even a coat of arms and an ancestral ducal palace for P. T. Barnum, the shining exemplar of the fond English sentiment, "the American people like to be humbugged...
...The Cecil Rhodes scholarships, the Cecil Rhodes Secret society and the Rhodes scholarship Alumni Association of America, all heavily endowed through Cecil Rhodes' will, are active and strong influences for realization of Rhodes' dream, stated in the first draft of his will—"the ultimate recovery of the United States as an integral part of the British empire...
...George, an old organization of British-born residents of this country, was Tory during the Revolution and is Tory still...
...Ten altered school histories teach that French aid in our Revolution came only through selfish motives of revenge upon England and hope to regain lost dominions...
...a member of the...
...The traditional American spirit derived out of our true history has not only given us peace and prosperity but has been and is the strongest influence for peace and progress throughout the world...
...This Alliance works in close cooperation with the Church Peace Union and its $2,000,000 Carnegie fund...
...It never has made us a warring people...
...What America and all mankind needs most today is revival and restoration of the spirit of '76, not its obscuration...
...But the alteration of our school histories is a manifestation that is clearly definite, and through this may be interpreted the general purpose upon which are being expended such enormous funds and such tremendous effort...
...It is the favorite policy of all these British propaganda organizations to push their American-born women to the front to do their open fighting...
...The English Speaking Union is made up of British and pro-British advocates of what its name indicates—Anglo-American union...
...The international mind constantly holds the double idea of defaming America and exalting England...
...The multiform Carnegie institutions, supported by the $200,000,000 fund of the Carnegie corporation and designed to influence and direct the spirit and methods of the scholastic, public school and library systems of this country, were established through motive which declared in his "Triumphant Democracy" to be the restoration of "the reunited states, the British-American union...
...The Sulgrave institute is founded upon the idea that George Washington has loomed too large throughout the world ever to be belittled and so must be claimed as an Englishman, who established in this western world English freedom...
...All the world knows and acknowledges thia vital truth...
...One revisionist teaches that it was felt at Valley Forge that "the English had only one king while the colonists had thirteen...
...This society has rewarded with a directorate the Anglicized school historian who teaches the British version that Lincoln's perfidy caused our Civil war, and it arranges for the granting of degrees by English universities to American collegiates who teach to our youth the imperialistic interests of Great Britain...
...Within the last few years it has established tranches in a dozen leading cities in this country...
...The Sens of St...
...and so school history has been changed to read that "The Serapis had the better of the fight and would have won," but for the "accidental" blowing up of it powder magazine by a hand grenade thrown by one of Jones' men...
...It is to the glory of the United States," Lloyd George has said, "that she never has engaged in a war except in defense of liberty...
...While insidiously seeking to denationalize...
...Bitter warfare is waged against "The Star Spangled Banner" as our national anthem, that it may be superseded by the hymn in which the international minded may join with "God Save the King...
...The World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship Through the Churches has as its stated purpose "To organize the religious forces of the world so that the weight of all churches and Christians can be brought to bear upon the relations of governments and peoples...
...Studied effort is made to debase American gratitude to that of contempt for the immemorial friendship of the land of Lafayette and Rochambeau...
...Glory of England IN the sacred name of world pacifism all militaristic glory must be dimmed but that of Englishmen...
...American national spirit suffers that British national spirit may directly benefit...
...American Association for International Conciliation...
...One revisionist inserts in his 1919 edition a complete chapter minimizing the importance of the Declaration of Independence and emphasizing Magna Charts as the source of frea government...
...The only open opposition which the Sons of the Revolution in California have encountered in their winning fight against Anglicized school histories has come from the American-horn wife of a Son of St...
...Every one of them is striving to prevent the proposed Philadelphia sesqui-centennial in celebration of the Declaration of Independence...
...There must be no courage chronicled bub that of the English...
...All of the propaganda organizations that have been named are working together to secure observance in our country of Magna Charta day, June 15, instead of the 4th of July...
...In addition to the elaborate and well oiled British propaganda machine established in our country by Sir Gilbert Parker and the late Lord Northcliffe, the output of which still flows steadily through newspaper syndicates, there are at least a full dozen of strong propaganda organizations, all British or pro-British, busily at work Briticizing American public opinion...
...To the international mind there must be no devotion to country taught but that to England...
...The idea is thus to utilize preachers and pulpits to develop "the international mind...
...The constitution of the United States, this revisionist teaches, is a mere copy of the English constitution...
Vol. 14 • October 1922 • No. 10
