In education has marched down the years. There is the case of Dr. Theodore Brameld. Professor of education at New York University and right-hand man of Dean Ernest 0. Melby. Dean Melby is perhaps the most conspicuous champion of progressive education. And also most vocal in his criticism of any investigation of subversion in education. His pamphlet. American Education Under Fire. Which will be analyzed later. Was written with the cooperation of Dr. Brameld. who has been a consistent member of Communist fronts for the past twenty years.
Brameld was an outstanding supporter
Aponsor of the Communist created American League Against War and Fascism. denounced by the Attorney General of that time as set up to advance the interests of Soviet Russia. Its program. Adopted in the fall of 1933. to which Dr. Brameld necessarily subscribed. said in part: “The black cloud of imperialist war hangs over the world . . . Only in the Soviet Union has this basic cause of war been removed . . . Therefore. the Soviet Union pursues a positive and vigorous peace policy and alone among the governments proposes total disarmament . . . The government of the United States. in spite of peaceful professions. is more aggressively than ever following policies whose only logical result is war.”
Brameld joined in that program
Supporting a statement which the House Committee on Un-American Activities has denounced as “demands for outright treasonable phone number list activity.” This was the pledge: “To work toward the stopping of the manufacture and transport of munitions and all other materials essential to the conduct of war. through mass demonstrations. picketing. and strikes . . . to support the peace policies of the Soviet Union . . . to win the armed forces to the support of this program.”
When the American Politburo decided to
Change the name of the Workers heat even series at 1-1 after dominant performance School to the Jefferson School of Social Science. it became necessary to give the “new” institution an apparently non-Communist sponsorship. This would be one of the effective ways to disguise in part its completely Marxist-Leninist character. that is. its dedication to teachings and plans for the overthrow of the government of the United States by violence. Among the prominent sponsors who took on themselves the responsibility for launching the so-called Jefferson School was Dr. Theodore Brameld. In 1949.
When the eleven Communist fax list leaders were on trial. Brameld was one of those who came publicly to their defense. In that same year. he was one of the prominent sponsors of the Waldorf-Astoria Peace Conference — the so-called Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace. At this notorious conference. the United States was denounced and Soviet Russia hailed as a citadel of peace.