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...postwar years, children's pictures all over Europe and Asia showed two common themes: food and ruins. Last week an art contest, sponsored by a French magazine and UNESCO, bringing forth children's work from 34 countries, showed that the specters of hunger and war have somewhat receded. Regional moods could be detected. Scandinavian pictures were dark and brooding, Italian entries sunny and gay. One youngster from the Cameroons painted a fearsome witchdoctor, a Hungarian contestant did a festival scene with a hammer & sickle. Worldwide winner: Tulip Fields, an imaginative, untroubled pastoral by The Netherlands' Hans Evendik...
...unit v/as formed, the first meeting was addressed by Allen Zoll. whose American Patriots, Inc. was listed by the Attorney General as a "Fascist" organization. Zoll, said the Journal-Bulletin, charged that the U.N. is "a device to permit the colored races to rule the white races [and that] UNESCO is an alien conspiracy to teach sex delinquency to American schoolchildren...
...phrase in the law that formerly merely prohibited the sale of such books (penalty: $600), Interior Minister Theophilus Dönges had made it a crime even to possess them. Standing dusty and unused on a forgotten bookshelf, a copy of Stuart Cloete's The Turning Wheels, UNESCO's The Roots of Prejudice, or any of the works of Novelist Mickey Spillane can cost its owner a fine of $3,000, or five years in jail. As with cobalt, there was even a disposal problem, for it is against the law in South Africa to burn wastepaper...
...plot: Stoddard, it said, "is trying to put over a new type of teacher training which might .wreck the academic . . . future of a lot of our kiddies." As for the Ford Foundation, it too was suspect: its former president, Paul Hoffman, had caused no end of trouble backing a UNESCO teaching program. "Pink Socialism." cried the paper. "Hoffman is out of the Ford Foundation, but his spirit is still there...
...weeks passed, the Herald & Express went right on hammering this theme. Then came the news that Stoddard had called on his colleague, Superintendent Will Crawford of San Diego, to administer the plan. "Crawford," cried the Herald & Express, "was the center of a storm in San Diego over the UNESCO-teaching there." That seemed evidence enough that Stoddard is trying "to swing UNESCO and 'One World' back into the Los Angeles school system...