The political dictionary of the American bourgeois press has become richer by the addition of a new and somewhat unusual combination of words, namely, Educational Pearl Harbor. It originated in connection with the serious crisis the system of education and training of qualified technical personnel is now undergoing in the United States and the outstanding achievement6 of the Soviet Union in this field. At Iirst by no means everybody admitted the Soviet achievements; many bourgeois political and public leaders could not admit the thought that the USSR, where before the revolution three-quarters of the population were illiterate, cuuld in a brief span of time create a mighty army of highly-competent specialists.