OFFICERS AND MEMBERS of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the U. S. NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO Chairman Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, President, Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Kans. Vice Chairmen Mr. Edward W. Barrett, Editorial Director, Newsweek, New York, N.Y. Mr. Charles A. Thomson, Adviser, Office of International Information and Cultural Executive Committee Mr. Erwin D. Canham, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Boston, Mass. Dr. Ben Mark Cherrington, Director, Social Science Foundation, University of Mr. Nelson H. Cruikshank, American Federation of Labor, Washington, D.C. The Very Reverend Monsignor Frederick G. Hochwalt, National Catholic Welfare Dr. Charles S. Johnson, President, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Eric Johnston, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., Washington, D.C. Mr. James Marshall, Member, Board of Education, New York, N.Y. Miss Kathryn McHale, American Association of University Women, Washington, Dr. Justin Miller, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C. 唱 HE principal responsibility of the Executive Board of UNESCO, under the Constitution of that organization, is to oversee the levelopment of the program authorized by the General Conference. In addition, the Board has issumed, or has been asked to undertake, certain administrative functions with reference to personel, finance, and the relations between UNESCO and >ther bodies, governmental and non-governmental. The second meeting of the Board took action in all hese fields. Program The Board took steps to authorize a limited program for the year 1947. It had before it a program document prepared by the secretariat on he basis of the report of the Program Commission of the General Conference and the commentary on that report, also approved by the General Conerence, which established priorities among the umerous projects approved. The document repared by the secretariat was in two parts. The irst was a description of three over-all projects n educational reconstruction and rehabilitation, n education for international understanding, and n fundamental education. The second presented series of narrower projects in education, libraries, atural sciences, social sciences, arts and letters, nuseums, and mass communication. The Board, ifter extended discussion of the entire document, pproved it with numerous detailed qualifications nd limitations and with the following major changes. The Hylean Amazon project was changed from a special project under the natural sciences to an over-all UNESCO project on a par with the projects in reconstruction, fundamental education, and education for international understanding. The project in mass communication was entirely rewritten so as to give much more emphasis to this field of activity. The over-all project for education for international understanding was criticized as vague and over-ambitious and the secretariat was instructed to reduce it to administrative order and good sense. The programs in the social sciences and the creative arts were criticized as being thin and weak. To continue the Board's oversight of the execution. of the program, a special committee of the Board was established to supervise the distribution of relief and the handling of the special UNESCO fund. External Relations The most important action in this field was a decision by the Board that before UNESCO can enter into a formal agreement with any international non-governmental organization, the draft agreement must be circulated to the member governments together with the necessary information as to the officers, aims, and character of the organization concerned. Grants to organizations had been limited by the General Conference to organizations with which agreements had already been negotiated and this condition was enforced by the Board with the result that grants were authorized only to the constituent units of the International Council of Scientific Unions and the International Studies Conference. |