A representative of the Board of Education will confer today with B. C. Vladeck, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, who several days ago made charges that students in German classes of Stuyvesant High School were required to read Nazi propaganda pamphlets issued in Berlin.
Jacob Greenberg, director of foreign language studies in city’s schools, yesterday said that arrangements have been made for him to meet Mr. Vladeck today at 12:30 o’clock in Manny’s Restaurant on Forsythe street.
Dr. George J. Ryan, president of the Board of Education, late yesterday afternoon denied reports that a direct order was sent to all school librarians to bar Nazi propaganda literature and that before anything is accepted for the public shelves of school libraries the principal of the institution in question must read and pass on the book or pamphlet.
In an earlier statement Mr. Vladeck said the Nazi booklet “German Youth in a Changing World” came into his possession, inscribed “Property of Stuyvesant High School.” A Board of Education inquiry followed and it was announced that one copy somehow found its way into the school library and was stamped by the librarian. Six students are said to have been instructed by a teacher to read it and prepare a paper on it.
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