If it seems impossible that President Wilson could back such a man, it should be remembered that the influence behind Wilson throughout his career as president was Colonel Edward Mandel House, the Marxist (Communist) who founded the Council on Foreign Relations, and the man whom Wilson called his Calles taking away the right of the parents to educate their own children, and declaring his intentions to take possession of the consciences of the children and to + create a new national soul. In a message to the nation from the Governors palace of Jalisco Calles stated: conscience of the youth; for the youth and the child must belong to the Revolution.’ belongs to the state, and only the state has the right to educate the child, and that all religion must be excluded from his teaching. This was the same philosophy adopted by the leaders of the French Revolution, and unfor- tunately, it is the same philosophy held by leading educators in the United States. Another prominent leader in the war against religion was Garrido Canabal, governor of Tabasco and a favorite of Calles. Canabal declared that education must 112 The Secret Side of History "alter ego." It was under Calles that some of the most outrageous attacks on religion occurred. These attacks began with We must enter into consciences and take possession toa a . con vena toa of them: the conscience of the children and the This declaration was based on the belief that the child