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...Council also participates in the activities of national groups supporting the UN, and it has testified at UNESCO and similar hearings...
Eighteen months ago, before squaring off against world illiteracy on a broad scale, U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided to try a small-scale test of its methods in Haiti's remote Marbial Valley, where illiteracy was the rule. To the valley six months ago went a team of UNESCO educators to begin the experiment. Last week, Lake Success announced that the project was being suspended. The UNESCO officials, said U.N., had come down with something almost as common in the Marbial Valley as illiteracy: malaria...
...UNESCO is hampered not only by all the difficulties of establishing worldwide communication of ideas, but also by a shortage of appropriations. Its world budget is only $7,500,000, while the Voice of America gets...
Also speaking at the meeting were Robert Smith 2G, recently elected student member of the American UNESCO committee, and Alice Gilbert, Radcliffe '49, who is the Regional Chairman of the National Student Association...
Smith outlined the ways in which UNESCO is going out to promote international understanding, and pointed out how NSA has been helping in these various fields...