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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Executive Board

The nineteenth session of the Executive Board of UNESCO met from February 13 to 25,1950. Discussion of the program to be presented to the fifth session of the General Conference continued. The Board attempted to design the program to fit a budget of $8,000,000 — the same figure as for 1950. Other arrangements for the Florence Conference were completed. Invitations were sent to the occupying authorities in the Eastern and Western Zones of Germany and in Japan to send observers, accompanied, if they wished, by expert nationals, to the General Conference. A credit of $40,000 was extended to allow UNESCO to continue for the rest of 1950 its assistance to refugee children in the Middle East. The Board discussed other program activities including the sending of a mission of experts to Ecuador to advise in fundamental education experiments in the areas recently devastated by earthquake. Finally it was decided to recommend that the Conference accept the applications for membership from the United States of Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, and the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
Information
International Organization , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , August 1950 , pp. 497 - 500
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1950

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References

1 UNESCO Courier, 04 1, 1950, p. 4Google Scholar.

2 Document 19 EX/16.

3 Document 19 EX/11.

4 Document 19/EX/Decisions, p. 4.

5 Document 19 EX/46.

6 Document 19 EX/47.

7 Document 19 EX/48.

8 UNESCO Courier, 05 1, 1950, p. 5Google Scholar.

9 Document 20 EX/10.

10 Document 20 EX/Decisions, p. 4.

11 Document 20 EX/3.

12 New York Times, June 23, 1950.

13 Ibid., May 23, 1950; the delegation from Poland, the only other Eastern European country in the organization, was rumored to be in Florence but did not attend any of the meetings; ibid., May 24, 1950.

14 Ibid., May 31, 1950.

15 United Nations Press Release, UNESCO/209, June 13, 1950; the motion failed for want of a second. Ibid., UNESCO/212, June 16, 1950.

16 UNESCO/209, June 13, 1950; the motion did not receive a single vote of support. New York Times, June 16, 1950.

17 United Nations Press Release, UNESCO/209, 06 13, 1950Google Scholar; the motion was later withdrawn: Ibid., UNESCO/212, June 16, 1950.

18 Ibid., UNESCO/209, June 13, 1950.

19 Ibid., UNESCO/210, June 14, 1950.

20 Ibid., UNESCO/211, June 15, 1950; Senator William Benton, addressing the Conference as a private individual and not as a governmental representative, called upon UNESCO to abandon the “delusion” that it could be a bridge between the Soviet Union and the rest of the world. New York Times, June 7, 1950.

21 United Nations Press Release, UNESCO/211, 06 15, 1950Google Scholar.

22 Ibid., UNESCO/212, June 16, 1950.

23 New York Times, June 9, 1950.

24 Ibid., June 18, 1950.

25 Ibid.

26 Ibid.

27 United Nations Press Release, UNESCO/199, 06 6, 1950Google Scholar.

28 New York Times, June 18, 1950.

29 United Nations Bulletin, VIII, 04 15, 1950, No. 8, p. 350Google Scholar.

30 United Nations Press Release, UNESCO/215, 06 23, 1950Google Scholar.

31 New York Times, July 18, 1950.