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...brief months, the American Legion seemed ready to stop shooting its patriotic artillery at UNESCO. In May, a special Legion committee reported no truth whatever in earlier Legion charges that the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization was teaching atheism, communism, and world government. Five months has, however, evidently brought the Legion back to its battle stations, for instead of accepting the committee's report, the annual convention last week began once again to fire away with its blank charges...
Dropping its former complaints about atheism and communism, the Legion this year stuck to the sole issue of "subversive educational materials" which support "a nebulous world government." It is difficult to know what the Legion means by these nebulous phrases, for the purpose of UNESCO has been clearly stated again and again. Since its beginning, the U.N. agency has tried to bring about better understanding between peoples on the subjects of education, science, and culture, but it has never threatened the sovereignty of any member nation. Quite the contrary, UNESCO must work through its member nations, for it is actually...
...UNESCO's main task has been not to foster a notion of world citizenship, but to send educators into areas of the world where school standards are far below normal. UNESCO also publishes books and pamphlets which take up educational and scientific problems on a world calc. Both of these activities have been investigated many times-not only by the Legion's special committee, but by citizens whom President Eiscnhower named and by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In all three instances, the groups cleared UNESCO of going beyond its legitimate function...
When the American Legion this week condemned UNESCO for propagating "adherence to a nebulous world government," the Legion was falling into an error common to many critics of the United Nations and its agencies. As a league of sovereign nations, the U.N. is hardly a world government. True world government--as its proponents readily admit--is a long way off, almost as far away now as it was in the late 1930's when the movement began in this country...
Manager Schang bided his time while U.S.-Russian relations blew hot and blew cold until, about a year ago, the Soviets joined UNESCO. That, decided Schang, meant a major policy shift, and he promptly opened negotiations with the Soviet embassy in Washington to import Russian musicians. His cause was helped by the fact that the Soviet ambassador is the Georgy Zarubin of World's Fair days. It may also have been helped by the fact that Violinist Yehudi Menuhin met Oistrakh in London and began his own correspondence with the State Department in the hope of winning his colleague...