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TEXT-BOOKS AND POLITICS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your note in last week's issue on the " London Labour Party's desire to remodel school textbooks in their own Party interest " was, I think, justified. Despite Mr. Herbert Morrisan's apologia, this intention should be read in conjunc- tion with certain significant recent expressions of opinion in the Party. The President of the Incorporated Association of Head Masters has referred to the Labour member of the Pontypridd Education Committee who wanted to " abandon the seniority rule in the appointment of head teachers and get the best men and those men who were in sympathy with the views of the majority (i.e., Labour) of that Committee."
I may also remind you that at the Annual Conference of the Labour Party at Southport., last October, a proposal was carried to place the entire educational system of the country, including the universities, unier State control. One of the advantages to be expected of such a scheme, it was explained, was " the elimination of all teaching calculated to encourage militarism or imperialistic ideas." In other words, the schools and universities are to be disciplined (and presumably the non-conforming teachers " eliminated ") in precisely the same manner (although for exactly contrary purposes) as the schools and universities of Nazi Germany.—I am, Sir, yours,
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