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After two dozen secret nominating sessions, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) finally agreed on a man for the top job. Their choice: Dr. Julian Sorell Huxley, 59, lean, wiry and brilliant British biologist who ran UNESCO in its warm-up stages...
...outfit devoted to the "free flow of information," they were mighty secret about it. As the delegates filed into UNESCO House in Paris (the old Hotel Majestic) to vote, three armed and mustachioed policemen checked their credentials. The press gallery was cleared, the communications system shut off. Huxley received 22 votes; three countries voted against him and two abstained...
...terrifying temper. Some delegates had reservations about picking a man who has professed atheism ("I do not believe in God, because I think the idea has ceased to be a useful hypothesis"), birth control, eugenic mating, state planning (as a member of the British group called PEP). But most UNESCO delegates thought the choice of Huxley was one way of luring reluctant Russia in; without her, every body agreed, UNESCO was a half-cooked goose...
...UNESCO's practical work of spreading ideas of peace and cooperation, it would certainly come up repeatedly against this ideological analogy to the Security Council veto. That prospect did not necessarily make UNESCO's task impossible; conflicting ideologies had been put together before. But it was worth noting (lest the world delude itself as to the difficulties facing UNESCO) that such sentiments as Ribnikar's were not those with which Alexander and Porus met in friendship on the fertile Punjab plain...
University of Chicago Roundtable (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). Topic: Can We Educate for World Understanding? Speakers : U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Benton, University of Illinois President George Stoddard, two UNESCO delegates (from Paris...