THE DRIVE AGAINST CULTURAL FREEDOM                                                                      217

this chapter points up once more the indivisibflity of civil hberties.
Interference with freedom of opinion in the fleld of pohtics,
whether affecting the rights of Communists or anyone else, sooner
or later spreads to the realm of hterature, art and culture in gen¬
eral. In no sphere have the repressive effects been more far-reach¬
ing than in education, to which I now turn.