URGENT NECESSITY
INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS
READING OF THE NEWSPAPERS
(British Offldal Wlrele».) BUGBY, October 22. Major-General Sir Frederick Mau» rice, president of the Britishr Legion> made a suggestion ire a speech yesterday that it was urgently necessary to teach the senior classes in schools how to read the newspapers intelligently, so that when the children became citizens they should be better able to discriminate and avoid perverted views.
He hoped that it would be possible for German schools to give lessons in how to read English newspapers, adding: "They do not understand over there that our Press is entirely free and that what it says does not necessarily represent the view of the Government."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 9
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114URGENT NECESSITY Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 9
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