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...high-soaring charter laid in a frame of thought and expressed in a UNESCO-like lingo that probably would have outraged well-ballasted old Henry Ford, who always mistrusted charity anyway. But with Paul Hoffman's clear-eyed business head, and the trustees' broad-gauge faith, it had a good chance of coming down to earth...
...idea of "race" and "racial superiority" has caused a lot of trouble in the world. Last week an international group of distinguished scientists working for UNESCO issued a report on what science knows about this emotional subject...
...much do these "ethnic groups" differ in intelligence? Not much, if at all, says the UNESCO report. "Given similar degrees of cultural opportunity to realize their potentialities, the average achievement of each ethnic group is about the same. The scientific investigations of recent years fully support the dictum of Confucius [551-478 B.C.]: 'Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart...
...fact was that for UNESCO, mañana still meant the day after tomorrow...
However worthy, such pet projects did not seem altogether pertinent to UNESCO's director general, Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexico's able former Minister of Education, who is an impatient man. Cracked one UNESCO representative last week: "For Torres Bodet, manana means today." Bodet had a pet project of his own-nothing more nor less than peace. He favored a Yugoslav suggestion for an international intellectual congress for peace, a Belgian proposal to form a committee to study the effects of new weapons, a Czech plan to outlaw atomic weapons. When the conference rejected these projects, Bodet got sore...