News Quiz, Mar. 3, 1947

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the doctrines of "progressive" education wherever possible.

2. Campaign for courses in marriage relations.

3. Hit their school boards for general raises.

4. Study the writings of Karl Marx as well as those of Adam Smith.

5. Teach less from textbooks, more from "personal experience." 26. The winner of the Wendell Willkie One World Award began a powerful series of broadcasts; he is:

1. Eric Johnston.

2. Howard Fast.

3. John Foster Dulles.

4. Louis Adamic.

5. Norman Corwin.

27. "Steve Canyon," Milton Caniff's new comic strip hero is a:

1. Cadet at West Point.

2. Famous war correspondent now operating in the Balkans.

3. Flyer who runs an aviation taxi service around the world.

4. Free-lance explorer currently mixed up with a tribe of devil-worshippers in Arabia.

5. U.S. Army Major who-does secret service work in the Orient.

INTERNATIONAL

ATOMIC AGE

28. Sixteen months and 23 days after Hiroshima, the U.N.

Atomic Energy Commission recommended all but one of these in a plan to control the atom:

1. An international authority with a monopoly over atomic affairs.

2. Bernard Baruch as chairman of the international authority.

3. Prohibition of the manufacture of atomic weapons and destruction of existing A-bombs after transition to international controls.

4. A system of vetoless international inspection to prevent illegal atomic operations.

5. A system of "swift and certain" punishment for violators.

29. Meantime, politicos sniped at the President's choice to head the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission:

1. Carrol L. Wilson.

2. David E. Lilienthal.

3. Lewis L. Strauss.

4. Robert Fox Bacher.

5. Major General Leslie R. Groves.

THE LEADERS SPEAK

30. On the heels of Henry Wallace's "stop getting tough with Russia" speech, Radio Moscow broadcast a statement in which Stalin did all but one of these:

L Said there was no real danger of war.

2. Declared Western capitalism could not encircle Russia if it tried.

3. Stated his belief that Russia and the West could cooperate under the "Communism in one country" formula.

4. Said the democracies should find no cause for alarm in the fact that foreign Communist parties are controlled by Russia.

5. Pooh-poohed the power of the atom bomb but said it constituted a threat to world peace anyway.

31. Five weeks later, Stalin broke the silence again, made all but one of these points in reply to questions from U.P. President Hugh Baillie:

/. Germany should be a political-economic unit.

2. Russia finds the presence of British troops in Greece "unnecessary."

3. Russia has no atom bomb.

4. Russia "views with interest" Churchill's proposal for a United States of Europe.

5. Tension between Russia and the U.S. was not increasing.

32. Earlier, in a memorable speech at Stuttgart, State Secretary Byrnes stated one hard fact—that:

1. More U.S. troops would be sent to Germany soon.

2. Russia must withdraw from Germany before Jan. 1, 1948.

3. The U.S. had no intention of withdrawing: troops from Germany now.

4. The U.S. would

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