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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT United States oj America October 30, 1970 Page 5 IRecord Congressional PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE-0- q . CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION UNESCO: Communisms Trap for Our Youth Into It further, I have burned a lot of late lights digesting and analyzing all the evidence, pro and con, concerning UNESCO, and I have reached a conclusion which I want to discuss with you, but you are going to have to wade with me through some of the preliminary evidence. UNESCO la the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. It Is an organization with thousands of publications too vast to enumerate. UNESCO booklets are distributed through the National Education Association and the others have missed. While we are allowing our youngsters thus to have their American allegiance brainwashed away so they do not or consider 'Americanism worth fighting for HON. JAMES B. UTT anymore, the Russians in their schools (and I wouldnt say this If I couldn't document or CAUrouni it with current evidence) continue to preach IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and teach their elementary school children that communism Is the only efficient governTuesday, September 4, 1962 ment. Mr. UTT. Mr. Speaker, under unaniThat God does not exist. mous consent to insert my remarks in That Russia will one day rule the world. the Appendix of the Record, I wish to Now wait a minute. I'm talking now to the mostly good Amerinsert an article by Mr. Paul Harvey, PTA to teachers and students. UNESCO literature Is issued through ican parents who have been convinced that news analyst, American Broadcasting YMCA groups and churches, radio and TV UNESCO was the proper way to prepare the Network, entitled UNESCO: Communewspapers, magazines, civic next generation of wdrld citizens to live toprograms, nisms Trap for Our Youth. groups, government agencies, but mostly gether. I have long contended that UNESCO directly Don't you see what's happening? and Indirectly, its philosophy of posed a threat to our American youth government Is aimed at the classThrough UNESCO American schoolchildren are being influenced away from their by imposing international control of our room. Twelve persons connected with the adminnational allegiance. curriculum by an international organiAmerican schoolchildren are being inof UNESCO have been Identified in istration zation which does not embrace the comsworn before with world government Ideals doctrinated congressional testimony American ideals liberty and freedom. as Communists. mittees while Russians the prepare their children to This article points up the fact that Seven have been connected with Soviet run that world government. UNESCO is not tolerated in the CommuThey are softening the patriotism of our nist countries, as these countries do not espionage. Six others refused to appear before Govnext generation, while hardening their own. ernment loyalty boards. The end result of this lopsided Indoctrinaaccept the precept of UNESCO. ThereBut now we are not challenging the loyalty tion Is too obvious to require elaboration. fore, this program is simply preparing or the motives of this organization. We are William Benton, speaking to the youth of the free world to the subto whatever determine their UNESCO, whether, said, We are at the beginning of a jugation of international communism. I seeking a of whole of breaking down the walls of young Intentions, process generation long hope that every parent who has chilAmericans is getting brainwashed for their our national sovereignty. In this UNESCO dren in school will read this and demand own good or somebody else's. can be, and Indeed must be, the pioneer. that the UNESCO program be forbidden Sometimes the defenders of the citadel, But Red Poland has pulled out of UNESCO. in our American schools. when they get desperate, become as vicious And Red Hungary. And Red Czechoslovakia. as the attackers. The article follows: They will not use this break down the UNESCO sometimes have let of The critics and love everybody stuff in their walls UNESCO: Communism's Trap for Our Youth themselves get so worked up that they start schools. When your child comes home from school flailing their arms, swinging in all directions, They will love communism and teach comparroting some phrase " about the world becoming at once Ineffectual and slightly munism and only we. United States of Amerare you going to society of the future ludicrous. icans will dilute our patriotism until the tell him It's wrong for him to love his Let us, instead, suppose that the world American flag is a faded rag not worth fightneighbor"? government Idea Is a good one. ing for. When he comes home talking of world Let us admit that all Gods children You may have difficulty getting your school brotherhood, are you going to contradict the would be better off living together than administrators to admit that they are using Christmas message of peace on earth and fighting and that the next generation of UNESCO materials even if they are. The tell him that all men are not brothers? children all over the world should be reared best test is to learn directly from the stuNow wait a minute. to this understanding. dents If they are being taught that colThat national boundaries are not somelectivism Is Inevitable, that polygamy Is acWhen your child goes from house to house over a United Nations to and that underfight coins for thing for UNICEF, collecting ceptable," that private property has no place Is the way to discuss our disagreements. are children lnthe new order, that we are all citizens of preoverseas, you privileged That it, is unnecessary to spill any more the world with an allegiance to all nations be charitable not him should he to tell pared blood defending the American flag If we all and to no one nation. to those who have less? allegiance to the UN. flag. School teachers are vulnerable. When his elementary school textbooks pledge UNESCO disciples beIs what That the The of with him president of the National Education the philosophy Indoctrinate lieve. Association, Dr. Lyman Ginger, says Russia world government are you prepared to Insist They are not all Communists. They are has an excellent school system. The basis that world war is preferable? decent citizens who are convinced that this for his Judgment Is that the Russian teacher Are you against world government Just Is the better way and that is why they are Is paid 1 Vi times as much as the Russian because the American Legion Is against it? Indoctrinating your child today through skilled worker. Of course, that fact loses I have been wrestling with these questions UNESCO literature and UNESCO influence Its luster when you realize that the Russian and seeking answers for several weeks. school classroom. his In elementary workers have to work 80 hours and factory I told you there was evidence that UNESCO Is the rest of the story: But this to buy one pair of shoes. 49 minutes our was brainwashing patriotism out of Russia is not thus indoctrinating Russian American teachers have felt Yet United many the and youngsters substituting children. that In adopting the International outlook Nations for God. This Is the larger Issue. This Is the point they were being modern and Imitating what I said if I found fire where I'd smelled veterans organizations and their NEA president calls the Soviet Union's smoke we'd go Into It further. Well, I have gone EXTENSION OF REMARKS one-wor- ld Ex-Sena- tor well-meani- ng Ever Dream Of Feeling Alive? For a reality come to DeLands for abundant health! Bring This Ad With You And Save 10 On Your Order DeLands Specialty Foods 2198 S. 9th E. the many old pro-and-c- on arguments that' have been weighed by the American Legion and the VFW and countless civic and discussion groups for years. I have, I believe, seen them all and I am not concerned with more hash from these leftovers. We are not debating whether UNESCOs philosophy Is good or evil. We are not opposing the United Nations. We are not denouncing international cooperation. We are not challenging the rightness or the wrongness of editing textbooks to put the U.N. In end rewriting history, to take the United States out and coaching our teachers to erase national boundaries from the minds of the next generation. I only object to this one fact. It is not who is right that Is of greatest Importance, but what Is right. That while we are thus conditioning our children to salute a mongrel flag, Russia is conditioning her children to salute only . the hammer and sickle. Suppose you and I were trainers, training professional fighters and you taught yours to fight and I taught mine to dance the minuet, well have a real happy party. But Russia is training fighters. Now, you say, what can you do? If you are concerned with preserving patriotism In the next generation of Americans then the youngster first must hear it at home. Dad's constant complaining about unfair taxes and "crooks in Washington does little to Instill faith and confidence in our Government. It must be counterbalanced with a respect for the strengths of our Nation, rather than a constant exaggerated emphasis on Its weaknesses. After the youngster nas heard a little conversation around the house, It's time for the parents to attend PTA meetings and to take an active, intense, personal interest in what the school is teaching and star-spangl- ed excellent school system. Russia's schools are not teaching Though Internationalism. Communism over God. Russia over all. Ask Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt about her recent visit to Russia. Are Soviet schools incorporating the UNESCO program? Certainnot. ly Are Russian schools teaching that one nation is Just like any other nation and that we must all live together under a United Nations? Certainly not. Our UNESCO literature Is American children with the indoctrinating idea that we should have an international anthem. Would Russian schools thus teach Russian children? Certainly not. Mrs. Roosevelt found the Russians demanding an Indelible allegiance to their own country. Seeking Iq every way to their own country. Teaching theirstrengthen children, by the Pavtovlan reflex method, precisely and only what the Soviet state wants them to believe. As Pavlov taught his conditioned dogs, they teach their children to hate the United States. Is there nothing to encourage interna- tlonal peace In their curriculum? Nothing. The classroom is a nationalistic weapon of the Kremlin. The UNESCO Seminar which American teachers states, "One of theguides chief alms of education everywhere is to develop those qualities of which provide the foundationcitizenship upon which international government must be based. No, not "everywhere." we rewrlte our textbooks, as the UNESCO Seminar recommends, on a view to improving them as aids to international understanding, lets be sure everybody else follows suit or the implication is obvious. We grow nationally soft while grow hard and strong. Only a Russian they citizen or a Soviet subversive would want that. Now please dont come back at me with what it Is not teaching. If you dont others will. If you figure you can stay home and play cards on PTA night and let George do it, youd better expect the worst because George doesnt always agree with you. The FBI has established that the Communists in the United States, under orders from Moscow, are making a concerted effort to work through respectable forums, Including PTA groups. If you cant take an Interest in directing your child's education, they will. They are. Right now. Much has been said about what Americans stand for. Equally Important are the things Americans won't stand for. Russia permits no UNESCO indoctrination of her youngsters. Russia teaches communism without compromise, and unless we prepare young Americans to believe in freedom without compromise, so that they will keep it strong and defend It against all enemies (foreign and domestic), we are dooming tomorrow's Americans to the fate of todays Hungarians. But if we can revive in America's youth some of the faith of our fathers then this will again become the land of the free and the home of the brave and strong enough to keep your enemies at arms length which is quite enough to hope for in our time. |