Evening star., 1955-06-05
The Truth May Free Them

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University graduates, Director Allen w.
Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency
has advanced an interesting and hopeful
theory regarding the possibilities inher-
ent in the Soviet Unions ever-expanding
educational system. The theory is simply
of that system-"with more knowledge,
more training of the mind, given more
people"-the day must inevitably arrive
when more and more Russians, vast num-
bers of them, will develop more and more
doubt about the Communist tyranny and
thus set in motion mass forces and pres
sures that may in time compel the Krem-
lin to let freedom ring throughout the
USSR.
Right now, Of course, this seems to
be very remote prospect at best. In
deed, viewed in its less promising light,
Soviet education constitutes serious
potential threat to the free world be-
cause of the way 1t is rapidly catching
up with the United States In developing
huge supply of scientists and engineers.
We still have the lead In that respect,
but we are fast losing 1t. And we are
losing 1t because there has been drastic
and continuing drop in the number OF
such personnel being graduated by our
schools Hence, as MIR. Dulles has warned,
unless we quickly take new measures to
increase our own facilities and reverse
the present trend the Kremlin'S Scien-
tific manpower is likely to be greater
than ours within the coming decade
fact that could be most ominous in the
atomic-hydrogen age.
Yet, with that said, Mr.. Dulles has
recalled how Wendell Willkie, during a
Kremlin conversation in 1912, listened
to lot of glowing statistics about Rus
sias expanding school system, and then
observed to his dictator-host: IF you
continue to educate the Russian people,
Mr. Stain, the first thing you know you1l
educate yourself out of job" Mr..
Willkie was in bantering mood at the
time, but Mr.. Dulles feels that he may
have been prescient and that what Cen
eralissimo Stain regarded as joke may
we'll prove to be anything but funny for
Soviet rulers still are capable Of condi-
tioning the minds and controlling the
thoughts of their educated subjects, but
the process of control can hardly fail to
Become harder and harder as time goes
on and as such people grow more and
more numerous. Thus, with enlighten-
ment spreading throughout the country,
Marxist theology colliding with objec-
tive truth and the hard challenges Of
demonstrated knowledge-is likely to be
put increasingly on the defensive until
1t retreats, sooner or later, to a point
where 1t may be discredited altogether
and forever.
Mr.. Dulles has not ventured to predict
that all this will surely happen. But
he has made clear that he attaches great
Importance to the idea as long-range
possibility. For he is convinced that
mass education-which they actually
cannot stop but must continue to pro-
mote-is a threat to today's troubled
Soviet leaders" and that they will hence
forth find it 'very difficult -. to close
of their own people from access to the
realities of the outside world" Perhaps
his view is too optimistic, but these are
times of such rapid change and flux
that nothing seems inconceivable-not
even the eventual triumph Of liberty and
truth in Russia and its satellite empire.
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