STALIN PRO-AMERICAN?
DALLIN, DAVID J.
East and West Stalin Pro-American? By David J. Dallin "LET US NOT CRITICIZE mutually pur \a system {the Soviet and the American J; if we start calling each other names like monopolist and...
...If we promote freedom by keeping Communists out, we must also defend it, by di** couraging psychological lynching on the part of reactionaries or mental defectives...
...BUT TODAY...
...Recently, Mrs...
...You will probably live forever...
...But the Commission includes representative teachers from all over the country...
...No," Johnston said...
...And we have particularly appreciated the trucks...
...Eleanor Roosevelt discussed the breakdown of negotiations with the Soviet government on exchanging teachers and students—so-called "cultural cooperation...
...You fellows know what you want "Your word is good, and best of all, you stay in office a long time—just like we do over here...
...We will then show you greater progress in our industrial development...
...The production of many things is still weak...
...We established cooperation and succeeded in defeating the enemy...
...It is a great pleasure to the editor of The New Leader to find this momentous fact set down in black and white by the official representatives of the American teaching profession...
...Stalin agreed...
...We must start from the historical fact that there are two systems approved by the people...
...I like to do business with American businessmen...
...before the war you produced up te 5,0QO.0O» ears annually...
...The Soviet government and its people are very appreciative of the assistance which we have received from the United Stales during the war...
...a consequence of becoming pari of av movement characterised by consplrasy and calculated deceit, that they should be ewsluded as taaabore...
...Stalin was extremely amiable to Eric Johns-" ton, Republican industrialist, president of the Chamber of Commerce and future czar of Hollywood...
...THE POSITIVE SUGGESTION* OUTLIIWD by the Commiskm of the NBA should be tacked up alongside the rule about Communists...
...They were organized as the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association...
...The Communist party does all it can to keep people from thinking...
...We seem to be getting results...
...Is this 'correct...
...They had authority to speak for the teaching profession of this country...
...If one is to speak about our sympathies for any nation or, to be mere correct, for the majority of any nation, one would, of course, speak about our sympathies for the Germans...
...There exist trade-unions for wosJtere f*# employees...
...And there are parliamentaV ' •* ' * , ' •* I HOPE BP© ONE WILL TAB these statements to (mean that pro-American Stalin is a "poor prisoner" of his anti-American PoUtburo,* as Mr...
...The first is that young people should be taught the nature of Communism...
...College presidents and boards of trustees have been making thrusts at Stalinites on the campus...
...TUB ATOTIH* TOWARD THE PROBLEM of Communists on the faculty is beautifully clear—and, incidentally, it follows almost wordfor-word a statement which I made in this space some weeks ago: "It is because member* of the Communist party are rssjulrad to surrender the tight to think for themselves, as...
...Your machine tools, the food you ha*e sent and the planes have been meat valuable...
...k "You exaggerate," Stalin replied, "Wc have' no special respect for everything American...
...TROUBLES CAN BEST be be attended to by those immediately concerned...
...But here is what Stalin told Johnston in 1944: "We are rejoicing ow lk« successful Allied Invasion of Europe...
...But a politician is here today and gone tomorrow, and then you have to make arrangements all over with a new set...
...Another advantage of this group is that they considered this business of whether Communists should be allowed places in the schoolroom as part of the larger problems of education in the present world crisis, They did not merely say: Keep the Communists out...
...An offer of the American ballet to give a few performances in Russia, without charge, was rejected by Moscow a few weeks ago...
...Stalin has not changed- in a few years, nor was he outvoted in his party...
...But, no matter how good their intentions, they have been suspected of putting limits on academic freedom...
...A person who debases his mind to this extent cannot take his place as part of a community set up at public expense to promote honest thought...
...Everywhere, the operations of the Communist parties involve systematic deception...
...It is a pleasure to discover that American educators, headed by such men as Eisenhower and Conant, have made the momentous discovery that Communists are liars...
...We have hammered away at that very fact for a long time...
...Now the teachers themselves have rolled up their sleeves...
...And they are giving us a demonstration of democratic action free of autocratic limitations from above...
...Yet when Harold Stassen asked Stalin about exchange of ideas and news, students and teachers, as well as Soviet-American trade, Stalin answered positively: "An exchange of goods will lead to an exchange of people...
...On another occasion Stalin had high praise for the American system of government, which is now being denounced daily as semi-fascist or fascist: "England and the United States of America possess elementary democratic liberties...
...It has heen Amarleeav trucks that enabled us to fottser the retreating Germans with such speed," As far as living standards and productivity were concerned, Stalin djd not claim' either superiority or even equality for his nation...
...A person who lies to children or to any young people entrusted to his care is about the lowest form of animal life...
...That was merely a publicity stunt—and it worked...
...We produced 360.00ft to 400.000----Many of the large plant* In the Soviet Union have been cen¦trneted with American help or with the benefit of American experience...
...There arises the problem of, where these teachers are to be found, wheretrained., It would be a pleasure te help setup, in teachers colleges and normal schools course* designed to fit rtoriagagf te teach, along wt*» other facts about history and polities, whet Communism is and how Communists act...
...The Russian people have the highest regard for Americans.- . . . We must never allow anything to come between us again...
...It forces them to accept dictated dogmas...
...For anample...
...Stalin to Eric A. Johnston, June, 1944...
...The authors of the 54-page pamphlet, American Education and International Tensions, had certain important initial advantages when they attacked this problem of Communists "in the schools...
...When taking leave of Stalin, Johnston said he would like to return after the war...
...There are wankers' ptlijaj...
...The Home Front Teacher Speaks Out By Williom B. Bohn OBVIOUSLY...
...Our motor Industry is only in its Infancy...
...He remains the same opportunist he always was...
...The Commission warns against the use of such words as "red" or "radical" as derogatory epithets, in connection with a person whose views happen to be different...
...We should respect the systems chosen by the people and whether the American system is good or bad is the business of the American people...
...Tnunan suggested, some time ago...
...In a world as puazled and panicky as dure, young people need te be taught theJast* of soeial and political life...
...This is the American teacher speaking...
...It is true that their statement was publicized in connection with the names of Dwight D. Eisenhower and James B. Conant, the presidents of Columbia and Harvard, respectively...
...We have had recently the ridiculous case of a professor of biology in the northwest who accepted the long outmoded theories of Lysenko because* Russian politicians forced Russian teachers to adopt and promote them...
...Otis people have many demands and so lew opportunities te fulfill them...
...When we met with Roosevelt to discuss the questions of war, we did not call each other names...
...You have performed a remarkable military feat by landing strong forces on the enemy-held coast...
...Teachers are hired to teach young people to think...
...TO SHOW ANYTHING to an American would be tantamount tq, taking part in espionage and would be punishable by deportation to a "corrective labor camp...
...By David J. Dallin "LET US NOT CRITICIZE mutually pur \a system {the Soviet and the American J; if we start calling each other names like monopolist and totalitarian it will lead to no cooperation...
...Our output of lathes and machine tools is lntJfnlBcani compared with what we need...
...But a Communist who is loyal to his party cannot be loyal to the truth...
...They, only indicate that high praise for America and' condemnation of America are alternating phases of the same policies...
...The two things are mutually exclusive...
...There can be no comparison between these sympathies and our feelings for the Americans...
...This presupposes that each school must have teachers who understand Communism...
...Stalin to Harold Stassen, April, 1947, a few months befoi>e the Com inform was launched and along with it an intense campaign against America...
...They pronounced some positive opinions about teaching and teachers...
...To confirm this let us recall another interview with Stalin, eight years bejore the war...
...After traveling about Russia and interviewing a number of people the German writer Emil Ludwig told Stalin: "I have observed in the Soviet Union an extraordinary respect for everything American, even a worship of everything American...
...Alright, come back and visit me after the war...
...Today, Soviet spokesmen are required to nourish the myth that Russia won the war single-handedly, and that the Allies invaded Europe only out of fear of the mighty Red Army advance...
...You are a Georgian...
...Stalin remarked: . "I may be dead then, come back sooner...
...Merely keeping Communists outside the door gets us nowhere...
...Their point » that, for effective education, teachers must bo free...
Vol. 32 • June 1949 • No. 25
