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...UNESCO and International Cooperation" will be the topic of a five man panel discussion featuring professors and graduate students from M.I.T. and the University in Emerson D tonight at 8 o'clock. The meeting is under the sponsorship of the American Association of Scientific Workers...
...representatives of the East, Dr. Pei-Moo Ku, of the M.I.T. aeronautics department, and S. Mukherji of Calcutta, who is studying food technology at the Institute, will add further to the cosmopolitan nature of the gathering in discussing UNESCO's value to the Orient...
Parisians might do better. Paris welcomed an international art show, a film festival, concerts and scientific exhibits, all dedicated to UNESCO Month. In Paris last week the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was getting ready for its first meeting...
...even the delegates to the Paris conference could say for sure what UNESCO was all about until after they had decided on a director-general, an 18-man executive board and a plan of action. If the optimists were right, UNESCO might become a battering ram, capable of knocking down national barriers to international understanding. If the cynics were right, UNESCO would be just another grandiose 20th Century balloon, with a big cheer at the ascension but in the end just a bag of wind. One basic drawback: Soviet Russia so far has not joined...
What would UNESCO do and how would it do it? The boldest U.S. proposal was a worldwide United Nations radio network (cost: $250,000,000). By broadcasting loudly across national boundaries, it might help destroy state monopolies of the news...