Russian Woman’s Attack on U.S.A. Causes Protest

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1947, Page 5

Russian Woman’s Attack on U.S.A. Causes Protest

WASHINGTON, May 17. The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (Mr Joseph Martin) at a ceremony to-day presented a large American flag to each of four high school pupils—three girls and one boy—who recently walked out of their school lecture hall as a protest against a visiting speaker’s- praise of Russia and criticism of the United States. About 200 persons attended the ceremony, including members of Congress. Mr Martin shook hands with each pupil and said that their protest had “brought into sharp focus the fight which all good Americans must wage against insidious attempts to foist foreign ideologies upon American youth.” The lecturer against whom the pupils protested was the Russianborn wife of a former American public servant. '