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Rene Cassin, LL.D., co-founder of UNESCO and principal author of the Declaration of Human Rights...
Died. Dr. Emilio Arenales, 46, diplomat, lawyer, and since last September president of the United Nations General Assembly; of cancer; in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Arenales served as legal counselor to the preparatory commission for UNESCO at age 24, was his country's permanent U.N. representative from 1955 to 1958, became Guatemala's Foreign Minister in 1966 after eight years of private law practice. When he was elected to the one-year presidency of the General Assembly, he said happily: "Guatemala can expect to preside about once in 100 years. For any man who holds the office...
...historians alike, an Indian art expert and career diplomat named Madanjeet Singh has accomplished what other scholars could not. With official and sympathetic help from all the governments concerned, Singh made 35 treks into the remotest regions of the Himalayas. His book, Himalayan Art, has just been published by UNESCO, the first volume in its Art Books series. It contains a photographic record (see color opposite) that for the first time reveals Himalayan painting and sculpture in all its sequestered splendor...
Nonviolent Ideals. Was his gesture merely a publicity stunt for the novel? Or was Arias, for twelve years a translator for UNESCO, simply a trifle loco? Jean-Marie Domenach, a French Catholic intellectual, calls Arias a "deeply convinced, well-balanced man." Arias himself, who is devoted to the nonviolent ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, feels that "if I ask other people to be active in a nonviolent campaign in Spain, no one will do anything. That's why I must set an example." His wife says: "He simply has the courage of his convictions...
...years since World War II, Miró's partner in realizing these ambitions became Llorens Artigas, a lifelong friend and master potter. At his kilns north of Barcelona, Miró fired many ceramics, including the 1958 murals that decorate UNESCO's Paris head quarters. He is currently working on ceramic murals for the Barcelona air port and for a West Berlin broadcasting center. He is also preparing a poster for the 1972 Olympics, and will meet this week with Japanese representatives to discuss a "laugh room" for the 1970 World's Fair at Osaka, which he envisions...