WORLD CITIZENSHIP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1943, Page 3

WORLD CITIZENSHIP

PROBLEMS OF POST-WAR EDUCATION DESTROYING THE NAZI BLIGHT. BRITISH AND AMERICAN PROPOSALS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK-, May 24. The repulping of “Mein Kampf” and other Nazi works and their use to reprint books which the Nazis have destroyed in the occupied countries is recommended in British proposals on post-war education which, with American proposals on the same subject, have been -.published by the American Council on Public Affairs. The British report was prepared jointly by the Council for Education in World Citizenship and the London International Assembly, and the American proposals were drafted by the Education Policies Commission.

Both" reports recommend a permanent international organisation for education as an integral part of the future of world government, with the object of promoting education for world citizenship and international co-operation, fostering the exchange of teachers and students, and encouraging research on problems of international significance. The British report says: “We believe that the first essential condition for the reeducation of Germany is that the whole of the Nazi organisation shall be destroyed, the German Army’s power broken, justice meted out to the war criminals, the stolen property restored, and a realisation of their defeat manifested by all Germans in order to teach them that aggression does not pay.” The report also recommends that the United Nations appoint a high commissioner to control adult education, the main task of which would be to “help the German people to bridge the gap between themselves and the great currents of thought in the free world, in order that they may find their own way back into the main stream of civilisation.”