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...nights, Beirut was not entirely free of haze last week. On the southern outskirts of the city, past Parliament Square, where a bemused policeman stood directing traffic with one hand and counting his beads with the other, delegates from 44 countries were gathered for the third annual conference of UNESCO (the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Their purpose was to remove all global misunderstandings...
...certainly interesting. Now if we could find a way to bring it down to the level of popular understanding . . ." Or: "It might be beneficial for us to initiate plans for a study with a view to promoting more understanding . . ." Scarcely a speech failed to make a bow to UNESCO's objectives, "human rights and fundamental freedoms . . without distinction of race, sex, language or religion"; or to that other ringing UNESCO slogan: "Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed...
...UNESCO, however, could not ignore the fact that the very country in which it met last week was proudly and openly at war with the Jews of Israel. On the second day of the conference, the Lebanese delegation, supported by other Arab nations, raised an outcry against the admission of Jewish observers from whatever nation. A hot debate ensued until somebody discovered that no Jewish observers were present or intended to come. Sullenly then the Arabs agreed to admit all organizations which had "accepted the invitation" (no Jewish group...
...when the session was over the police were not satisfied. Lebanese Communist Mustafa Aris was in the hall as an accredited observer for the World Federation of Trade Unions, and the irate police decided to pick him up and toss him in jail, diplomatic immunity or no. UNESCO's secretariat promptly protested, and while Mustafa languished in stir, the understanding Lebanese government promised that in future, before a UNESCO delegate was clapped in prison, the director general would be consulted "whenever possible...
...overpopulation, soil erosion and disease, and is impossible of solution only or mainly by educational methods." "People generally," remarked George Allen dryly, "are impressed by finished jobs." Later on, stocky, practical U.S. Delegate Anne O'Hare McCormick cried in desperation: "What is the precise role of UNESCO? It's becoming more and more vague. We are constantly being called upon to make studies and promote. Promote what? What we need is action...