A commission set up by NY Mayor John Hylan to examine US history textbooks recommends that 8 be thrown out as too pro-British. Some of them had been written or revised during the Great War so as not to criticize an ally too much, but commission head David Hirschfeld, who is not an educator or a historian, says “Any history which, after 150 years, attempts to teach our children that the War of Independence was an unnecessary war and that it is still a problem as to who was right and who was wrong, should be fed to the furnace and those responsible for those books branded as un-American.” He says the books are part of a plot to restore the US to the British Empire, or at least an alliance dominated by Britain, a movement he says is backed by “an international money power” which “knows no patriotism.” Hirschfeld also sees Rhodes scholarships and the World Court as part of this pro-British conspiracy.
Fashion of the Day -100:
Also, more Frenchwomen seem to be blond lately, a fashion set by stage actresses, who are going blond to get into the pictures, where blondes show up better.
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