State of the nation: Butterfingers or sabotage?

Drummond, Roscoe

Abstract

President Eisenhower recently vowed to stop using security classifications to keep non-sensitive information from the U.S. public. However, the State Department, shortly after this initiative, announced that the public would no longer be informed of how they were running overseas libraries as part of cold-war strategy. The author excoriates this decision by the State Department as both undemocratic and as going arrogantly against the President's plans.

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Resource type
- Intellectual Freedom News
Collections
- Intellectual Freedom Issues in Oregon: A News Database
Challenged
- all books with Communist authors
Reading level
- all levels
Participant
- President Eisenhower, State Department, overseas U.S. libraries
Outcome
- The State Department said they would no longer inform the public how they were operating these overseas libraries in light of their recent attempts at censorship.
Location
- All overseas U.S. libraries
Source
- The Christian Science Monitor (Boston)
Is part of
- Intellectual Freedom Issues in Oregon: A News Database
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Additional information
- All overseas U.S. libraries