Note 915 — Chapter VII · The Attack on History Textbooks Since 1917 (continued 2)

Ibid. The following comment on the attitude of historians and educators toward the censorship of histories appeared in the New York American, November 4, 1923: “It has been insolently asserted by speakers for foreign propaganda agencies and by some college professors and school men that the interpretation of American patriotism should be left to ‘higher historical scholarship’ and that ‘ignorant’ and narrowly nationalistic American patriotic organizations should keep their hands off. We contend, on the contrary, that we who have followed the flag for American ideals know what these ideals are; we cherish them for what they are and will maintain them in our schools as zealously as we have maintained them in battle-line.”