U.S. FOREIGN POLICY QUESTIONED BY 20 EDUCATORS AND OTHERS

Grey River Argus, 20 January 1948, Page 5

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY QUESTIONED BY 20 EDUCATORS AND OTHERS

Military Men’s Influence Alleged (Rec. 6.30) WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 Professor Albert Einstein, three University presidents and sixteen other prominent educators, clergymen and authors to-day issued a pamphlet.. “America could not remain democratic if the present trend towards the military control of institutions is continued,” they declared, adding that “military men had lately acquired a dangerous degree of influence over American foreign policy, public opinion, higher education, scientific research, and even boy scouts. Military men had a great influence on Presm-mt Truman’s thinking group.” They charged that “some high service leaders, without rebuke, suggest that we abandon our historic policy to become an aggressor nation by striking the first blow in a ‘preventive’ war.”