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Vaewnro * On February 27, 1950 an article appeared in the "Dally #orker" under the caption "26 United States Leaders Flay Militerisr in Schcols" which stated that 26 prominent Americans asserted that t#® militarism had invaded the nations schools and colleges to an alarming degrees They called for an inmediate about-face. According to the article the 26 Americans included such men as @uthor Louis Bromfield, Scientist Albert Einstein, Methodist. Bishop Gerald Kennedy and Fresident Jares G. Patton of the National Farmers Unione The article stated that their 80 page report accused the Defense Department of an “ominous effort" to spread militarism philoscphy among the country's youthe" According to the article it was @ third in a series of reports sponscred by the National Council Against Conscription ou Militarism in Americae According to the article, they said that the Department was making " systematic and well-financed efforts - - + to penetra te and influence civilian educational life of Anerica"ses. Its goal, they said, was te influenta. friends for the military and get across the idea that preparedness for war was the best road to peacees - The report further stated, according to the article, that the desperate need of the world for peace required e type of leadership which could be attained only through the spirit of free inquiry unhamperec by narrow military considerationss 62-8287 BoA (Zéy ChB :nab