Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some very real accomplishments to its credit. Through functional agencies, such as the World Health Organization and UNESCO, it has achieved a degree of international co-operation never before seen on such a scale in peacetime. And even as a propaganda forum, it has at least given clearer focus to the problems that divide the world...
...half-time shifts." If all that were not enough, said Superintendent Martin Essex of Lakewood, Ohio, teachers are being frightened into a "sterile education." After questioning 522 other superintendents for a special report, Essex found a growing fear of such subjects as religion, sex education, Communism, "socialized" medicine and UNESCO. "The American teacher has voluntarily censored herself. This is out of fear of reprisals . . . It's not bad to be afraid, but to accept it as normal is dangerous...
With that storm passed. Stoddard found himself headed into another. This time the cause of the ruckus was a teacher's manual about UNESCO that Stoddard had hoped to use in the schools. Some citizens, how ever, led by Hearst's Herald & Express, had other ideas. UNESCO, the critics charged, tended to subvert nationalism in favor of one world, and this in turn was closely akin to Communist international ism. The local American Legion joined the attack, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution condemning "this planned corruption of the American children's minds." Eventually...
...Ford Foundation grant for a special teacher-training program to alleviate L.A.'s perennial shortage, the Herald & Express erupted once again. The whole idea, the paper grumbled, seemed to be some sort of plot. Had not the foundation's former President Paul Hoffman favored UNESCO? Was Stoddard thus merely using the grant "to swing UNESCO . . . back" into the schools again? "Pink Socialism." cried the paper-and Stoddard was forced to drop the grant...
...Federal Government." As the hearings went on, a troop of witnesses added other bits and pieces. One denounced the Kinsey reports, which had been partially financed by the Rockefeller Foundation; another blasted Studebaker's Board Chairman Paul Hoffman, former president of the Ford Foundation, for backing UNESCO. Finally, last week, fed up with such charges, supported, he felt, largely by quotations taken out of context, Ohio's Democratic Representative Wayne L. Hays decided to teach the committee a lesson as to just how silly its proceedings...