Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1948 Morris--aided by UNESCO--has collected data from college students in nine nations in order to discover an underlying similarity of thought and aspiration in the great cultural systems...
Scientists from twelve European nations gathered in UNESCO's mirrored conference room in Paris last week. Their purpose: to discuss the creation of an "Institute for Advanced Studies in Nuclear Research." Worried by the drift of European scientists toward the secrecy ridden research centers of the U.S. UNESCO wants a "universal" laboratory All work would be published and no one would be concerned with atomic bombs...
Most Western European countries, and Yugoslavia, will contribute. Britain has offered the use of her new Liverpool synchrocyclotron. Denmark will open the facilities of Copenhagen University. The U.S. has also offered its support. "But no one," said a UNESCO scientist, "considered it worthwhile to make inquiries in the Soviet Union...
...Council also exerts direct influence on the international field. Stephen M. Schwebel '50, U.N. Council President 1948-49, was a UNESCO delegate in 1950. Each year the International Student Movement for the U.N., of which CCUN is a subsidiary, and the World Federation of U.N. Associations have a non-voting seat on UNESCO...
...signs of a positive emphasis. The new American peace offensive is expected to include proposals for world disarmament, or, at least, the important requisite for disarmament-an arms census. Thus the United States has discovered that war involves something more than power factors. The preamble to the Charter of UNESCO begins, "Since war begins in the minds of men ..." The compromises of the diplomats at the Paris meeting of the General Assembly will be observed indirectly by hundreds of millions, not by a few dozen delegates. This world audience must become as impressed with the United States' peace-loving mentality...