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...United Nations were supposed to do all the talking about politics. UNESCO was to concern itself with culture. But last week in Mexico City, at UNESCO's second world conference, delegates wrangled heatedly over the politics of culture. Under heaviest fire were the culture and politics...
...Delegate Lloyd Free wanted UNESCO to do something about exchange restrictions which narrow U.S. movie markets, and about political censorships which cut off the exchange of ideas...
English Lesson. When British Delegate J. B. Priestley joined the attack on the U.S., Delegate Free slapped down a copy of UNESCO's constitution, reminded him that one of its first points was a free press. Priestley, red-faced with Yorkshire wrath, roared: "I do not believe that a representative of the United Kingdom, in matters of freedom of expression, needs to receive lessons. ... I assure the delegate that I can read the English language as well...
During the war years, as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, gaunt, shy John Gilbert Winant lived a hard and nerve-racking life. He came home, after his resignation in March 1946, to accept another hard job for his country-permanent U.S. representative on UNESCO. But last December he asked President Harry Truman to relieve him of his duties. He wanted to "pick up life again as a private citizen in my own country...
...dining room of Mexico City's unfinished Prado Hotel stood Muralist Diego Rivera, critically studying a wall. President Alemán himself had ordered that the city's toniest hotel be completed in time for November's UNESCO conference, and all around Rivera's paunchy figure carpenters and electricians bent noisily to the presidential will. But Rivera's own share of the work, he at last decided, was done. An assistant handed him a round brush wet with yellow paint, and Rivera quickly added a few touches. Then he thrust his soft little hands into...