ABSTRACT
During the preceding fall, winter and early spring, the subcommission had operated at maximum strength and "peak efficiency". The Education Director had been able to assign three or four Regional Educational Officers to each region. From the outset of the campaign, the multinational composition of the subcommission had reassured its staff of the agency's suitability as a healer of excessive chauvinism. As Education Director, Washburne countered accusations that he aimed to "Americanize" Italy's schools by emphasizing the subcommission's international contacts. The Allied Commission's committment to honor Vatican privileges sanctioned in the 1929 Concordat played a large role in the Gemelli affair. Only in Venezia-Giulia did anti-communism become a deliberate and explicit component of subcommission policy. Washburne's controversial denunciation of Titoism of October, 1945 is the first such polemical statement to appear in the subcommission's documentary record.
