Education: The Need to Know

In his first speech as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of public and cultural relations, Archibald MacLeish last week laid down a vital premise: "If the peoples of the world are informed about each other, their decisions with relation to each other will be just decisions . . . for the maintenance of peace."

That the world's peoples still have a lot to learn about each other was apparent last week to any newspaper reader. Summarizing the results of surveys in recent years in the comparatively well-informed U.S., Pollster Elmo Roper...

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