Well, if I may, I’d like to add my comments. I don’t think that the Commission, as a major task of its duties, should be undertaking to prepare curriculum material. As I mentioned, I’m on the Commission for Eastern European History in New Jersey, and we are reviewing all of the textbooks that are used in high school level and junior high school level for their teaching about the history of Eastern Europe, and the prepara¬tion of curriculum materials and the introduction of them into the textbooks is a major, major undertaking. It’s a very long-range project.

I don’t think, as Dr. Mace has said, that the campaign to enlighten the public about the Ukrainian famine should in any way take a back seat, but I honestly don’t see that the preparation of curriculum materials by the Commission and its staff should be a major task.

Ms. MAZURKEVICH: Well, I disagree with you because it shouldn’t be a major task, but it should be one of the important tasks because if we’re to educate the people, where do we start? We start with school children, and we’re not going to amend textbooks now. We’re just going to introduce a supplement to the text. That’s all.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Okay. Are there any other questions on this? Is there discus¬sion?
Dr. KUROPAS: I think that the staff of the Commission would not have to spend a lot of time, but I think if local groups could develop the curriculum, they could send it to Dr. Mace for his response, for his expertise, and he could take time to look at it and see if it meets the needs and then send it back. I don’t see the Commission spending an inordinate amount of time on this, but I think they could help us as kind of consult¬ants, but most of the work would be done locally.
Dr. MACE: If I could just interject, I have no objection to doing that. In fact, I’ve done that on an informal basis in the past, and I would be quite happy to continue to do that in the future.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Did you have any comment?
Mr. FEDORAK: So be it.
Dr. MACE: Alright. We’ve spoken about Item 2, which is the employment of con¬tract workers to carry out an oral history project.
Number three on the memorandum is the utilization of volunteers and personnel of other agencies by agreement with those agencies.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Is there any comment on this, discussion?
Dr. KUROPAS: If I might, I’d just like to ask. I don’t think this should be a major part of the research done by the Commission, but I think an important aspect, and we all agree it’s an important aspect of what happened in the ’30s, is the fact that the world press was either unaware or refused to be aware or even wanted to actually ig¬nore it I think the real precedents were affected during the Holocaust if we read such recent publications as The Abandonment of the Jews. We see that the American press especially in some instances seemed to go out of its way to ignore the Holocaust, even though all of the information was there.
Have you given any thought to having a side study, an ancillary study that would look at the role of the free press in the suppressing of the evidence for the famine?
Mr. MARCHISHIN: I’m sorry. Did you follow that, Dr. Mace? Myron was talking about the role of the press.