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- ghe-"Daily Worker" published an article in it December 12, 1947 issue entitled "Schools Bar Study’ of: This article states that the Board of Superintendents (n further identified) had announced on the previous day that 4t intended to eliminate a course for teachers on culture in the Soviet Union. The course, for which teachers received. credit, was sponsored by the American Russian Institute. No reason was given for the Board's action, although Associate hs Superintendent Jacob Greenberg, who was in charge of the progr of special courses for teachers, said that 'they are causing = disunity rather than unity'. “ The article stated that the chairman of the Institute: was Professor Ernest J. Simmons of Columbia University and th t: the directors included Joseph Barnes, writer for the "Herald . Tribune" and formerly its Moscow correspondent; Professor * Robert S. Lynd, Columbia; Samuel J. Novik, Arthur Upham Pope, Richard B. Scandrett, Jr., Paul Tishman and Maurice Wertheim. 61-6211-A-DW, 12-12-47. ~ (8) am ¢\7