As the Twig...

To the Communists, education is a branch of politics. This month's Budapest Koezneveles (Public Education), outlining an elementary-school curriculum by the Hungarian Education Ministry, runs true to doctrine:

First Grade: lectures on Stalin's militant life. Poems and songs about Stalin learned by heart. Pupils to be shown pictures from various stages of the Soviet Generalissimo's career.

Second Grade: "Stalin, the best disciple of Lenin." Soviet military campaigns in World War II. The liberation of Hungary by the Red army. How Russia aided Hungary's postwar reconstruction.

Fifth Grade: comparison of current Hungarian Five-Year Plan with the Soviet plan. Machinations of the Standard Oil Co.'s imperialist saboteurs.

Sixth Grade: Stalin's peace policy. How the U.S.S.R. in World War II crushed fascism in Europe.

Seventh Grade: the United States, bulwark of imperialism. While Soviet science moVes mountains and diverts rivers for the good of the people, in the U.S. science and industry prepare for war.*Wheat is burned, workers exploited and the Communist Party persecuted.

Even courses apparently unrelated to Communism are to be taught in terms of Soviet propaganda. Koezneveles instructs teachers to draw their arithmetic and geometry problems from figures relating to Russian industrial production, culture and farming.

*Even the New York water shortage provides a variation on this perennial Communist propaganda theme. Radio Moscow has charged that the U.S. could easily build more dams and reservoirs but for the fact that the militarists are squandering the public funds on preparations for war. Consequently, New Yorkers must go dirty and unshaven.

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