UNESCO and Our Public Schools---
Women Warned on Lending Names to Red Causes
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JOHN T. WOOD
of IDAHO
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Saturday, October 10, 1951
SPEAKER: Mr. WOOD of Idaho.
Mr. WOOD: Mr. Speaker, if we make the mistake of assuming that communism is our only enemy, we are lost. Communism is merely one of the instruments used by the real conspirators to frighten us into surrendering our national sovereignty to a world government in which we will be hopelessly outnumbered and outvoted, just as we are now in the United Nations.
Now that the Communists are in ill repute, many of their former internationalist collaborators are repudiating them; but do not be deceived by this apparent change of face.
The threat to America is not from without. No exterior force can destroy us. America can be destroyed only from within. The United Nations, UNESCO, and the Bretton Woods monetary agreements are supplying the tools with which subversives work and the vehicles on which they are riding to power.
The pattern of the international Socialist apparatus is the thing to watch. It is skilled in propaganda and has made terrible inroads in almost every field of communication and opinion-forming mediums and organizations.
The American people have been propagandized into believing that the sole objective of the United Nations is to prevent war and promote peace and harmony among nations; but that is merely window dressing to cover up the greatest subversive plot in history.
In a well-documented report, the American Flag Committee of Philadelphia, PA says:
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization is a subversive association. It is consciously furthering a campaign calculated to pervert the teaching profession in this country, and so destroy the worth and integrity of America’s first bulwark of freedom---our tax-supported public schools.
Strong words. But this report, which was carried in the Appendix of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD---page A6551---is so startling that loyal, patriotic people and organizations, including the Daughters of the American Revolution, have paid for the printing of thousands of copies of this report to warn the American people of the plot to twist and pervert the minds of little children. A card to my office will bring you a free copy of this report.
UNESCO’s scheme to pervert public education appears in a series of nine volumes, titled: “Toward World Understanding for Kindergarten and Elementary Grade Teachers in Public Schools.” These booklets are obtainable from the Columbia University Press, New York; and cheaply priced. Get them and read them.
The system of teaching advocated in these booklets is to capture the minds of little children, even in the kindergarten, to the end they shall be taught the ideal of a central world government, as over against that of our own constitutional republican form of government; that teachers shall constantly stress the opposite of the family teaching of loyalty to our American ideal and allegiance to our beautiful starts and stripes, substituting for it loyalty to the Communist world government of the United Nations and allegiance to its spider web banner.
UNESCO plans to make war upon the ideals of patriotic national devotion which it sees as infecting our children in the home and community. American history must be suppressed. The patriotic spirit in our children is to be thoroughly emasculated.
Teachers are encouraged to organize political pressure groups, and---in the manner of a trade union---to demand teachers’ and children’s rights. An attempt would then be made to legislate these rights, prepared in treaty form, which with the approval of the Senate and signature of the President, would become the supreme law of the land, similar to the United Nations and the Atlantic Pact. Page the ghost of Hitler’s youth movement.
UNESCO would intrude upon the sanctity of the home. Booklet VI contains samples of the type of sex education UNESCO proposes for the teaching of children between the ages of 6 and 13. A sense of propriety prohibits quoting the less modest, but here are a few of the suggested questions to be explored by the teachers: (a) Are there devices for limiting the family? (b) What are the feelings of pregnant women? (c) Do parents undress before the child? (d) What is the child to be taught about where babies come from?
One cannot help but wonder if this is what the American parent wishes his children to be taught between the ages of 6 and 13 in our tax-supported public schools. If you do not, you had better investigate how much of this propaganda is already being used in your schools.
It is well to remember: We are the only country in the world which embraces the internationalist idea; all other nations are intensely nationalist; Britain and Russia most of all.
Internationalism is a conspiratorial device to destroy us. Show me an internationalist, and I will show you a potential traitor to the United States.
Appended is a news article from the Washington Times-Herald of Washington, D.C. which carries a timely warning to all patriotic American women:
WOMEN WARNED ON LENDING NAMES TO RED CAUSES---Student of Propaganda Tells GOP League How Commies Abuse Naïve Groups
(By Vyila Poe Wilson)
American women leaders who lend their names and those of their organizations to plug organizations and movements, flavored with international socialism and such like may not know what they are doing, Mrs. Henry Deland Strack, of New Jersey, who has made an intensive study of propaganda in textbooks and in other forms, pointed out at the meeting of the District of Columbia League of Republican Women at the Mayflower yesterday.
“I prefer to believe that these women are naïve---but remember Westbrook Pegler says naïve is a French word for dumb,” said this good looking housewife who is on a crusade against subversive propaganda.
“In regard to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs,” she said, “I have here a pamphlet put out by the National Conference of Christians and Jews---the organization in the forefront of the brotherhood activists, chosen by the State Department to indoctrinate German youth---which recommends for children a book by Howard Fast who served a Federal jail sentence; and films by several of the Hollywood Ten.”
FOREWARD BY EX-HEAD OF WOMEN’S FEDERATION
“This booklet, Religious Values for Youth carried a foreword by Mrs. La Pell Dickinson, then president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. And, of course, in the testimony before the Congress on world government you will find the Young Women’s Christian Association, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the League of Women Voters putting their organizations on record in favor of world government at the American Association of the United Nations I found the photograph of Mrs. Hiram C. Houghton, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, as one of the radio speakers plugging their line. I prefer to believe that Mrs. Houghton, like so many of these women is just naïve, just dumb, and inclinded to be meddlesome.”
Mrs. Strack said that Communists never openly advocate communism in this country but carry on their propaganda for international socialism which really is not any different from communism.
“International socialism,” she insisted, “ will be brought about by the six Marxist abolitions---abolition of existing government of ownership of property in land, of inheritance of the family, of nationalism (patriotism), and of religion. Within that framework, then you can judge the program and the degree of socialism included in the program of many national organizations, the self-styled opinion-forming agencies.”
STATE DEPARTMENT ACTION DECRIED
She also decried the habit of State Department and other Government departments of consulting the heads of such organizations and soon “the official administration policy is being peddled to the voters down through the State and local levels of the national organizations memberships”.
“I have found,” the speaker declared, “the National Education Association acting as the political arm of the new Fair Deal crowd in the public school system,” she said in reporting on her investigations.
“The pattern of the international Socialist apparatus in this country and the terrible inroads it has made in almost every field of communication and opinion forming is apparent,” she concluded. “It is up to you Republican women to read the magazines and books that still manage to get printed which expose this process. I hope you will challenge our cultural managers as they go about obliquely performing the revolution without violence. It is really up to Republican women if you do not want this country sold down the ideological river. Time is running out. Don’t let these United States go by default”.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ALSO ARE LISTED
Besides the organizations already mentioned, others pointed out by Mrs. Strack are the National Citizens Political Action Committee, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, the American Association of University Professors, the American Home Economics Association, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the National Farmers Union, the Consumers Union, Jo Davidson’s Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions.
The speaker was introduced by Mrs. Howard Coffin, national Republican committeewoman from the District, who pointed out that there are 47,000 public-relations and opinion-forming employees on the Government payrolls telling people how to think.
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