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Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn professor of Anthropology, revealed last night that he has been asked by the State Department to go to Paris for a meeting of UNESCO on "international tensions...
Each One Teach One. The UNESCO majority, led by the U.S., got action on one point. They were determined not to re-elect Dr. Huxley to his $15,000-a-year job. To replace him for a six-year term they chose, by a vote of 30 to 3, 46-year-old Jaime Torres Bodet, Foreign Minister of Mexico. Energetic, curly-topped Torres Bodet, who speaks French, English and Spanish with equal ease, is a poet who published his first works 'at the age of 16, but is no idle dreamer...
...country in Mexico's famed "each one teach one" literacy campaign (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946). "All good intentions," he said then, "must be bounded by two essentials-to nourish [and] to teach . . ." Last week, accepting his new job, he promised "all my enthusiasm and all my strength" for UNESCO's ideals...
...Pitch of A. Both will be badly needed to dispel the fog in Beirut. At its first meeting in Paris two years ago, U.S. Delegation Chairman William Benton had likened the general program of UNESCO to "a pork barrel floating on a cloud." In two years the program had not changed appreciably. By last weekend more than 60 separate resolutions had been dumped into the laps of conference subcommittees. Many, like Austria's pet project for an international conference in Vienna to standardize the A pitch in the musical scale, bore all the earmarks...
...delegation was doing what it could to bring UNESCO down to dry earth by backing practical Minister Torres Bodet's election, and by insisting that each division of the organization provide competent working plans for every project for which funds are required. But there was another hurdle in the path that could not be surmounted by hardheaded business methods alone. That was the tendency of UNESCO delegates to avert their eyes from the very issues that needed to be faced most squarely...