a radio program on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to supply speakers on this subject to interested groups. Commission Members Speak Two members of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO-Mrs. Louise Wright, director of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and Richard P. McKeon, of the University of Chicago— were speakers at the United Nations Day observances sponsored by the University of Chicago and the American Association for the United Nations. Mrs. Wright's talk was on the specialized agencies of the United Nations, and Mr. McKeon spoke on UNESCO. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, United States alternate delegate to the Fourth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, addressed the meeting on the United Nations organization. Mr. McKeon also spoke at a program sponsored by the Detroit Committee for the Observance of United Nations Week. UNIQUE UNESCO CENTER SET UP IN AMSTERDAM A privately-organized Dutch UNESCO Center, "claimed to be the first of its kind in the world," has been established in Amsterdam, according to ANETA, a semiofficial Dutch news bulletin. "Its aim," the bulletin says, "is to "foster international cooperation in the field of education, science, and culture and to increase the Dutch manin-the-street's knowledge about the work of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization in Paris.' ". . . Its plans include establishing a comprehensive information library and reading room with UNESCO material of which some has already arrived from Paris, setting up an information office and holding lectures, film shows, exhibitions, and conferences on UNESCO activities. "The Dutch national UNESCO committee has consented to act as a board of governors for the center. Chairman of the executive is Dr. Ph. J. Idenburg, Director-General of Dutch statistics. Dr. B. E. M. Vlekke, Secretary-General of the Netherlands Society for International Affairs, is one of the executive members. "Mr. J. G. Morreau, one of the two Amsterdam citizens who took the initiative for the center, has just spent a fortnight in Paris at the invitation of the UNESCO Secretariat to study the Organization's work." Model UNESCO General Conference Students from 50 midwestern colleges and universities participated in a model "UNESCO General Conference" organized by the University of Illinois on the school's campus during the Thanksgiving holidays. Each institution represented one of the 50 UNESCO member nations, and 18 students from different institutions represented the membership on UNESCO's Executive Board. George D. Stoddard, Chairman of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and president of the University of Illinois, gave the principal address at the opening session. His talk, "Highlights of UNESCO's Program," followed the election of a president and vice president to serve as chairmen of the plenary sessions. Other speakers at this session were Charles A. Thomson, director, UNESCO Relations Staff, whose subject was "The National Commission-The People's Bridge to UNESCO," and Mrs. Louise Leonard Wright, director of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and member of the National Commission, who spoke on "UNESCO's External Relations-Its Channels of Cooperation and Affiliation." An enormous United Nations flag formed the back drop of the platform in the main conference room, and each delegation was seated by a standard bearing the name and flag of the country represented. "National Commission" meetings were held on the evening of the first day and the entire second day of the conference to explore four areas of UNESCO's program: (1) Educational Reconstruction; (2) Universities Bureau; (3) Exchange of Persons; and (4) Tensions Conducive to War. The reports of these commissions were given at the second plenary session. The third and final plenary session was devoted to youth's participation in UNESCO. Robert L. West of New Haven, Conn., who represents the U.S. National Student Association on the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, led the discussion. Among the participants were Erskine Childers, international vice president of the USNSA, and Frank Sulewski, central regional secretary for the World Student Service Fund. Sponsors of the conference, held November 25– 27, were the International Affairs Committee of the University of Illinois Student Senate and the International Affairs Commission, Illinois Region, of the U.S. National Student Association. NATIONAL COMMISSION ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBERS Recent appointments to membership on the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO include two members at large-Davidson Taylor, of New York City, vice president and director of public affairs of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and Everette Lee DeGolyer, of Dallas, Texas, geologist and industrialist. Members at large are appointed directly by the Secretary of State, while representatives of organizations are nominated by the groups they represent. Two new organizations on the Commission-the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs and B'nai B'rithwill be represented by Miss K. Frances Scott and Rev. William F. Rosenblum. The Synagogue Council of America, which for the past two years has been represented by Mr. Rosenblum, is represented now by Rev. Herbert S. Goldstein. Mrs. Raymond Sayre, president of the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau Federation, replaces Mrs. Roy C. F. Weagly as the representative of that organization. Radio Experts Served With SHAEF Mr. Taylor, a native of Shelbyville, Tenn., began his radio career as an announcer, writer, and choral conductor of Station WHAS in Louisville, Ky., where he also wrote a radio column for the Louisville Courier Journal. He has been on the staff of CBS since 1933, except for wartime assignments. In 1944 he became chief of the Radio Psychological Warfare Division of the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, and he later served as chief of the film theater and music control of the Information Control Division of the U.S. Forces, European Theater. He is a contributor to several literary, radio, and music publications, including Theatre Arts Monthly, Poetry, and Broadcasting. Mr. Taylor received his A.B. degree from Mississippi College in Clinton and his Th.M. degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Pioneer in Oil Exploration Mr. DeGolyer's firm, DeGolyer and McNaughton, is consultant on petroleum reserves for the U.S. Navy and the governments of Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, and Peru. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Mr. DeGolyer became a field geologist for the Mexican Eagle Oil Company, Ltd., and during his work in Mexico he located the famous Potrero del Llano No. 4 well, the world's largest. He has headed U.S. missions to Mexico and the Middle East. For his pioneer work in the use of geophysics for oil exploration Mr. DeGolyer was awarded the Lucas Medal of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and the John Fritz Medal of the Four Founder Societies. He holds honorary doctorates from the Colorado School of Mines, Southern Methodist University, Trinity College, and Princeton University. He is a director of the Saturday Review of Literature, the America Petroleum Institute, the First National Bank of Dallas, Empire Trust Company, and other companies. He was technical adviser on the formation of the Petroleum Code of the National Recovery Administration in 1933 and, from 1941 to 1943, was Director of Conservation and Assistant Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War. In 1943 he became consultant to the U.S. Petroleum Reserves Corporation. Miss Scott, who is president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, is a native of Vincennes, Ind. She received her A.B. degree from Wooster College in Wooster, Ohio, and her M.D. degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago. She is an associate professor of hygiene at Smith College and has written a college textbook on hygiene. She has also published numerous articles on health and hygiene. Miss Scott formerly served as assistant physician at Vassar College and health consultant to Radcliffe College. Writer of Religious Works Rabbi Goldstein, a native New Yorker, received his B.A. degree from Columbia College and his M.A. from Columbia University. He attended the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and was later a professor at Yeshiva University, which conferred upon him an honorary D.D. degree. Founder of the Institutional Synagogue in 1917, Rabbi Goldstein has continued to serve with the institution ever since. He is president of the American Israeli Fund and chairman of Homes for Children in Israel and is a past president of the Synagogue Council of America. He has written several books on Judaism and the Bible in addition to numerous newspaper articles and radio addresses. Served on German Mission Mrs. Sayre, a native Iowan, received her B.A. degree from Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, and later was awarded an LL.D. from the same school. She is president of the Associated Farm Bureau Federation of the World, a member of the National Planning Commission, and a past president of the American Country Life Association. In 1939 Mrs. Sayre was a delegate of the Associated Country Women of the World at the International Meeting of Rural Women in London, and last spring she spent several months in Germany on an Army mission, working with farm. women and women leaders. In addition to her activities with the women's branch of the Farm Bureau, she has played a prominent part in the civic affairs of her state and community. UNESCO COUNCIL IS PROPOSED The Hartford (Conn.) Study Center for World Affairs sponsored a meeting on November 21 to Department of State publication 3693 The printing of this publication has been approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget (May 29, 1947) 12 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. Price $1.00 per year, domestic; $1.35 per year, foreign; single copy, 10 cents. JAN 28 50 Laurence Olivier, right, noted British actor-producer, flew from London to participate in a United Nations program commemorating the first anniversary he Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10. The ceremony, in which UNESCO cooperated, was staged in Carnegie Hall, New York, and cast. Sir Laurence read the preamble to the Declaration, to the accompaniment of a special symphonic arrangement composed for the occasion by on Copland, left, and played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Leonard Bernstein, center, was piano soloist on the program, and Yehudi Menuhin e a violin solo. Speakers were Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, President of the General Assembly he UN; and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chairman of the UN Commission on Human Rights. President Truman issued a proclamation setting aside "December 10, 1949, and December 10 of each succeeding year as United Nations Human Rights Day." Local radio stations and community groups throughout the country featured programs commemorating the day. Education on Human Rights is one he six priority community-action programs of the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO. Executive Committee: William Benton, Milton S. Eisenhower, Mrs. Douglas Horton, C. J. McLanahan, Waldo G. Leland, Rayford W. Logan, Earl J. McGrath, C. J. McLanahan, Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, Mrs. Henry Potter Russell, Stanley H. Ruttenberg, George N. Shuster, Merle A. Tuve, Howard E. Wilson, Mrs. Louise Wright, George F. Zook. Other Members: Barclay Acheson, Ellis Arnall, Paul D. Bagwell, Ralph A. Beals, Keith Beery, Karl W. Bigelow, Livingston L. Blair, Miss Selma Borchardt, Chester Bowles, William G. Carr, Ben M. Cherrington, Arthur H. Compton, Wayne Coy, Nelson H. Cruikshank, Edgar Dale, Mrs. Harvey N. Davis, Everette L. DeGolyer, Henry Grattan Doyle, F. S. Dunn, Clarence A. Dykstra, George Harold Edgell, Luther H. Evans, David E. Finley, Robert M. Gates, Miss Rosamond Gilder, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, Willard E. Goslin, Howard Hanson, Ross G. Harrison, Mrs. John E. Hayes, Mrs. Charles E. Heming, Ralph E. Himstead, Msgr. Frederick Hochwalt, B. W. Huebsch, Rees H. Hughes, Herbert C. Hunsaker, Charles S. Johnson, Rev. F. Ernest Johnson, Eric Johnston, William B. Levenson, Milton E. Lord, Archibald MacLeish, James Marshall, Roscoe C. Martin, Mrs. Anne O'Hare McCormick, Raymond McCoy, Miss Kathryn McHale, Richard P. McKeon, Charles E. Odegaard, Thomas G. Pullen, Frederick D. G. Ribble, Daniel C. Rich, Rev. William F. Rosenblum, J. T. Sanders, Mrs. Raymond Sayre, Miss K. Frances Scott, Harlow Shapley, Lawrence M. C. Smith, Miss Maycie Southall, George S. Stevenson, Alexander J. Stoddard, Donald C. Stone, P. G. Stromberg, Donald F. Sullivan, Davidson Taylor, Stanley D. Tylman, Harold C. Urey, Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, Glenway Wescott, Robert L. West, Alexander Wetmore, M. L. Wilson. Executive Secretary: Charles A. 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