Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unit v/as formed, the first meeting was addressed by Allen Zoll. whose American Patriots, Inc. was listed by the Attorney General as a "Fascist" organization. Zoll, said the Journal-Bulletin, charged that the U.N. is "a device to permit the colored races to rule the white races [and that] UNESCO is an alien conspiracy to teach sex delinquency to American schoolchildren...
...phrase in the law that formerly merely prohibited the sale of such books (penalty: $600), Interior Minister Theophilus Dönges had made it a crime even to possess them. Standing dusty and unused on a forgotten bookshelf, a copy of Stuart Cloete's The Turning Wheels, UNESCO's The Roots of Prejudice, or any of the works of Novelist Mickey Spillane can cost its owner a fine of $3,000, or five years in jail. As with cobalt, there was even a disposal problem, for it is against the law in South Africa to burn wastepaper...
...plot: Stoddard, it said, "is trying to put over a new type of teacher training which might .wreck the academic . . . future of a lot of our kiddies." As for the Ford Foundation, it too was suspect: its former president, Paul Hoffman, had caused no end of trouble backing a UNESCO teaching program. "Pink Socialism." cried the paper. "Hoffman is out of the Ford Foundation, but his spirit is still there...
...weeks passed, the Herald & Express went right on hammering this theme. Then came the news that Stoddard had called on his colleague, Superintendent Will Crawford of San Diego, to administer the plan. "Crawford," cried the Herald & Express, "was the center of a storm in San Diego over the UNESCO-teaching there." That seemed evidence enough that Stoddard is trying "to swing UNESCO and 'One World' back into the Los Angeles school system...
...years, has a deep interest in foreign affairs, is president of Chicago's International House. A former state commander of the American Legion, he worked hard and effectively in the Eisenhower campaign. After the election, he asked his friend Everett Dirksen to sponsor him for an appointment to UNESCO. Dirksen agreed, and things looked set, particularly because Shillinglaw was also an old friend of Under Secretary of State Donold Lourie...