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...UNESCO, almost walleyed from trying to see everything globally, last week focused its eyes down on 20 square miles of the earth's surface. As its first target in teaching the world's untaught, it had picked southern Haiti...
Haiti's Marbial section was almost ideal for the experiment. Of its 26,000 inhabitants, three out of four can neither read nor write. They speak a Creole dialect of French, live in thatched huts with dirt floors, suffer from worms, decaying teeth, malaria and tuberculosis. A UNESCO expert, armed with films, books, posters and phonograph records, will work with a Haitian Government team to teach the fundamentals of hygiene, flood control, modern agriculture, the three Rs. UNESCO will pass on what it learns to teams in Asia, Africa, South America...
...plan is designed to give UNESCO a chance to confirm graphically its contention that international living and cooperation in our time is a solid possibility and not a damfool dream. One of the projected institutes, for instance, would bring together 20 young people from each country under an international faculty. The difficulties posed by language, ideological, and personal differences could be studied and prescribed for in a way obviously not possible in the heated UN sessions, or in the many cultural areas of the world which are sealed from, and uncomprehending of, each other. the educators hope that a common...
Astronomer Bart Bok of Harvard and Bacteriologist Stuart Mudd of Penn wanted to urge Russian scientists to urge their Government (thus far, outside and not even looking in) to join UNESCO. Orchid-draped Mrs. William Dick Sporborg, of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, sprang what she herself called "a surprise"-that the National Commission shelve everything else and concentrate on reducing tensions between Russia and the U.S. Assistant Secretary Benton thought that wouldn't get far "without the cooperation of Russia...
Monsignor Frederick G. Hochwalt, of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, half-seriously observed that the trouble with UNESCO was too much agreement. Suggested the Monsignor: "If we could get a real hot fight going in UNESCO-between the natural scientists and the philosophers, say, or even about whether UNESCO is a good idea at all-people would...