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This book was written mainly in August and the first week of September, Events in October and early November, especially the Moscow Conference and the Connally Resolution in the United States Senate, put any subsequent discussion of isolationism as a basis for international policy quite out of court. International commitments caught up so rapidly with the reasoning of the internationalists that their en thusiasms began to seem beside the point. Some pas sages ih the present text may thus appear outdated. Although it was possible to revise a few of the orig inal statements which gave to the argument the ring of punishment administered to a straw man, there was no time to exclude all references to the isolation ist point of View. Nor did this seem desirable. This discussion refers to isolationist ideas and attitudes once widely prevalent among citizens of the United States 5 and isolationist thinking of some sort still per sists among large sections of our population. It is cer tain to reappear in many noxious and obstructive forms at crucial points. Furthermore, the isolationistpoint of view is so natural that there is a continuing problem for education in meeting it. Since these pages are addressed primarily to American teachers, it is fair to ask those who read the book to dismiss the few contemporary references which may now appear irrelevant and to fix their attention on the permanent issues with which the book attempts to deal.
Dr. George F. Kneller of Yale University, student and teacher of comparative education, now on an international educational mission for the United States Office of Education, gave to this book in manu script a friendly but unsparing criticism which saved it from some of the faults and weaknesses it would otherwise have shown. Many of those that remain are present in spite of his generosity, here most grate fully acknowledged.
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