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...little sister, UNESCO, has been living from pillar to post, without a home of its own, for seven years. This week an international design panel produced plans for the permanent home UNESCO hopes to build in Paris. The main feature of the plan, as conceived by France's Bernard Zehrfuss, Italy's Pier Nervi and the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer: a smaller edition of big sister's Manhattan "sandwich on end" (TIME, Sept. 22), with a cluster of conference halls near...
Your two articles on the "Knights of the Church" and "Humanists, 1952" in the Sept.1 issue seem to indicate that because the former director general of UNESCO, Julian Huxley, is an ardent humanist (as defined in your article), UNESCO is following in its activities principles which are contrary to Catholic moral theology (e.g., birth control). May I point out, as a Catholic member of UNESCO, that Dr. Huxley, while director general of the organization, carefully avoided mixing his personal views-which he always freely professed-with the official programme and gave a shining example of objectivity, tolerance and fair play...
Happily, noise seldom conquers intellect so roundly elsewhere. Few communities have reached a point where book-burning is so popular, where men like Paul Hoffman are hissed into silence, and where UNESCO and the Comintern can be mentioned in the same breath without evoking general laughter. Nevertheless, the increasing popularity of extremism is no less discouraging for the localization of its success...
...plea that Knights and their fellow Americans give a "close and careful scrutiny" to the operations of UNESCO (see below). Reason: UNESCO, "in some of its expressed views, advances theories which would support birth control as a truly scientific solution of problems of population and human betterment...
...opening day of the convention, British Biologist Julian Huxley, former head of UNESCO, proposed launching a formal humanist religion. Present religions, he felt, are doing the job badly, and insisting too much on supernatural beliefs and absolute truth. Specifically, he suggested, the Roman Catholic stand on birth control and India's belief in sacred cows are good examples of religion's retarding influence...