tively, of the Program Committee for the Conference.

The basic work in organizing delegations to the Conference from the seven participating States and two territories is under the direction of the following: California, Mr. Staley for the northern section of the State, and Hugh Tiner, president of Pepperdine College, for southern California; Arizona, Linne D. Klemmedson, Superintendent of Public Instruction; Idaho, George Fields, principal of the Boise Senior High School; Nevada, Joseph F. McDonald, editor, Nevada State Journal; Oregon, Peter Odegard, president of Reed College; Montana, G. A. Selke, chancellor of the University of Montana; Washington, Virgil Smith, Assistant Superintendent of Public Schools, Seattle; Alaska, James C. Ryan, Commissioner of Education for the Territory of Alaska; and Hawaii, Allen F. Saunders, chairman of the Department of Government, University of Hawaii.

Already interested groups in many States are planning UNESCO activities in advance of the Conference. Mr. Odegard, on a recent visit to Washington, outlined plans for organizing an Oregon Coordinating Council on UNESCO and has informed the Convening Committee that approximately 100 Oregon delegates are expected to go to the Pacific Conference.

At the same

time, the Oregon group is laying out a long-range program for continued support of UNESCO'S purposes. As a further prelude to the Conference, Oregon State College has scheduled a UNESCO week immediately preceding the Regional Conference.

The University of Idaho held a conference in April on "Causes of War-Conditions of Peace”. Mr. Tiner and Mr. Staley, as co-chairmen for California, have put special emphasis on work with organization and leader lists.

Arrangements have been made with the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce for hospitality luncheons. Special invitations have been sent to consular representatives from UNESCO member countries to attend the Regional Conference as observers.

Plenary sessions will be held at the San Francisco Opera House; registration of delegates will be at the St. Francis Hotel; and the welcoming luncheon on May 13 is to be held at the Palace Hotel. It is also proposed to hold section meetings which will cover five main chapters of the

UNESCO program-communications, education, cultural interchange, human and social relations, and natural sciences. It is planned that discussion of the sixth chapter, educational reconstruction, will, because of its importance, be a part of each section meeting.

The public-relations program is under the direction of Fred Glover, director of information at Stanford University, who is assisted by Miss Irma Cunha. Carlton Banigan, assistant to the vice president of the Bank of America, is the administrative officer for the Conference.

This will be the second Regional Conference on UNESCO, the first having been the MountainPlains Regional Conference held in Denver in May 1947. The States participating in that meeting included Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho. Idaho is the only State to take part in both the forthcoming Pacific Conference and the previous Denver regional meeting.

The Pacific Regional Conference on UNESCO marks the first major convention of a United Nations organization in San Francisco since the meeting which drafted the United Nations Charter in 1945.

Liaison with the UNESCO Relations Staff is under the direction of Albert H. Rosenthal, assistant director, who will be assisted by Floyd L. Sampson, consultant on UNESCO Program.

Relations of UNESCO With Germany and Japan

Programs for UNESCO in Germany and Japan were approved at Mexico City and will be carried out in cooperation with the Allied authorities in those countries. The Executive Board and the Secretariat are now in the midst of negotiations to establish a basis for the types of activity in which UNESCO can engage most usefully in the occupied areas. In the case of Germany, the work will probably be done in the British, French, and American zones in consultation with their respective commanders. The U.S.S.R. has not accepted UNESCO's suggestion for cooperation.

of Murray Brochin of Passaic High School. "How can UNESCO accomplish its purpose and penetrate the Iron Curtain?" he asked William Carr, associate secretary of the National Education Association.

"The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization cannot go behind the Iron Curtain until Russia becomes a member", Carr replied. Earlier, he had termed the Soviet Union's not joining UNESCO as one of the "practical difficulties" facing the international organization.

Carr urged the teen-agers to avoid expression of national and racial prejudices; to remember there is nothing in human nature that makes war inevitable; and to keep informed on activities of the U.N., UNESCO, and other peace agencies.

Pupils were urged by William Agar, U.N. chief of lecture services, to understand and spread the meaning of UNESCO. He said that education to maintain peace will not be complete until "all nations join UNESCO".

The program included a talk by Mrs. Griffith on "Music's Part in UNESCO" and a concert by the American Youth Symphony Orchestra. Dean Dixon was conductor, with Menaham Pressler, youthful Palestinian pianist, as soloist.

Gregory Ziemer, Town Hall educational director, served as moderator.-Newark Evening News.

U. N. Film Board and Information Committee Meet in Washington

The United Nations Film Board, composed of representatives of U.N. and its specialized agencies, met recently in Washington to plan an enlarged program of production and distribution of films relating to the United Nations and its work. UNESCOo was represented by Gerald Carnes, information officer for UNESCO at Lake Success. The Film Board invited many prominent officials of the Federal Government and representatives of the Washington Diplomatic Corps to a showing of four new films produced by the U.N. Department of Public Information:

"Searchlight on the Nations" presented the role of modern communications in world affairs; "Maps We Live By" pointed out the great extent to which the sciences of geography and cartography are being changed by the "shrinking universe"; "Clearing the Way" pictured the work on

the new headquarters of the U.N.; "First Steps", produced for use in India, showed techniques used in rehabilitating handicapped children. This film recently received an Academy Award at Hollywood.

Benjamin Cohen of Chile, Assistant SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations in charge of information, reported that Hollywood producers are now planning to produce films which will lead to a better understanding of the United Nations.

Following the meeting of the Film Board, the Consultative Committee of the directors of public information of the United Nations and the specialized agencies met in Washington at the headquarters of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Gordon Williams, assistant to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, presided. The major question before the group was the formulation of a common policy on public information for the United Nations and the specialized agencies. It was agreed that UNESCO and the other organs of U.N. would draft statements of policy applicable to their particular activities; these will be coordinated into a general over-all statement at the next quarterly meeting of the Information Committee in June at Lake Success.

M. Thomas conferred especially with members of the National Commission and UNESco Relations Staff engaged in work in the fields of philosophy, the humanities, arts, and letters, and Mr. Dorget's time was devoted principally to consulting with directors of various organizations engaged in education about international affairs.

Harold Kaplan, an officer of the Public Information Section at UNESCO House, attended meetings of the U.N. Film Board and the Consultative Committee on Information Services of U.N., and Jacob Besterman, head of UNESCO Documentation, Libraries and Statistical Services, conferred with members of the UNESCO Relations Staff in March. Arthur Gagliotti of the New York office of UNESCO also spent several days in Washington recently, conferring with members of the UNESCO Relations Staff on administrative matters.

Ten new Kansas counties are organizing county UNESCO Councils, bringing the total of organized counties to 20.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

U.N. Yearbook (containing a section on UNESCO). Obtainable through Columbia University Press, New York, N.Y. Price $10.

Mundt-Smith Act, Public Law 402, 80th Congress, 2d Session. "An Act to enable the Government of the U.S. more effectively to carry on its foreign relations by means of promotion of the interchange of persons, knowledge, and skills between the people of the U.S. and other countries, and by means of public dissemination abroad of information about the U.S., its people and its policies." Obtainable from Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Price 5¢.

International Conciliation, no. 438, February 1948. "UNESCO: 1947 and 1948," reviews UNESCO's record in 1947 and gives program plans for 1948. Obtainable at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 405 West 117th Street, New York, N. Y. Price 56.

Toward Mutual Understanding. A brief history of UNESCO with a suggested list of references. Published by the Unitarian Commission on World Order, 25 Beacon Street, Boston 8, Mass. Price 10¢.

STAFF NOTES

Howard F. Vickery has joined the UNESCO Relations Staff as Assistant Director in charge of Organizational Relations. Mr. Vickery has had

wide experience as a newspaper reporter and editor. In 1921 he joined the staff of the Denver Post, and during the next 16 years he served on papers in Sheridan, Wyoming; San Francisco; Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; and New York. His special interests as a Howard F. Vickery reporter centered coverage and analysis of labor-management disputes, surveys of minority problems, and political-criminal investigations. His work in these fields has carried him into virtually all of the 48 States.

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Mr. Vickery first came to Washington in 1937 to handle public relations for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and its subsidiary, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. When all the Government's housing agencies were consolidated in the wartime National Housing Agency in 1942, Mr. Vickery combined their information services and was director of information under two National Housing Administrators. He resigned in December 1946, and spent 15 months on research and writing in the field of public relations. Mr. Vickery, whose work has brought him into close contact with many national organizations, is a native of Denver, Colorado, and attended the University of Colorado.

Miss Anita Maggiolo has joined the staff as assistant to the documents officer. From 1946 to 1947 Miss Maggiolo was an industrial analyst in the Civilian Production Administration and prior to that had served the War Production Board for three years in the same capacity.

Miss Nina Scrivener has been appointed secretary to the Assistant Director for Planning and Administration of the UNESCO Relations Staff. Prior to her present appointment, Miss Scrivener served as an Administrative Assistant at the Veterans Administration at Denver, Colorado.

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HE UNITED STATES Centre of the International Theatre Institute will, when it comes fully into being, boast a noble and complex ancestry. Clarence Derwent, president of Actors Equity, and Moss Hart, president of the Dramatists' Guild, have agreed to act as cochairmen. On the one hand, the Centre is the offspring of UNESCO, one of the U.N.'s livelier children. On the other hand, it has been fostered and brought into being by ANTA (American National Theatre Association), which draws its corporate being from the Congress of the United States, and is run by a board representing every phase, both professional and nonprofessional, of the American theater. Since it is the ultimate object of the U.S. Centre of the I.T.I. to represent the American theater in its foreign relations and to present it as wisely and completely as possible, this double parentage augurs well.

Through UNESCO's fostering interest, the International Theatre Institute has been able to take its initial steps. UNESCO called a meeting of theater experts in Paris in the summer of 1947. Its secretariat there has continued to work on the program laid down at that time, and the first International Theatre Congress, at which the I.T.I. will be officially created, is being planned for this

summer.

At the same time, here in the United States, ANTA has been hammering away at the basic structure on which any international center must be built. The United States has never had a national center for the theater. In addition to creating and activating a national theater organization, ANTA has had a representative at every national meeting of the UNESCO in the U.S. It sent two delegates to the meeting of theater experts in Paris in 1947 and a third delegate, invited by UNESCO, was ANTA'S secretary. Before the creation of the U.S. Centre, ANTA served as host to a series of visiting European theater leaders in New York City, entertaining J. B. Priestley (U.K.), Dr. C. K. Sie (China), Augus

tine Sire (Chile), Charles Juhlin-Dannfelt (Sweden), and Armand Salacrou (France), all of whom are members of the Interim Executive Committee of the I.T.I. It has also acted as host to a number of other visitors from these countries as well as from Argentina, the Union of South Africa, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, and Italy. For such international events as the Edinburgh Festival, projected tours of American artists in Germany, and the performances at Elsinore, the American theater has at last a means of cooperative and disinterested effort in relation to the world theater.

Last February the United States Centre of the I.T.I., as sponsored by ANTA, set up an office of its own at 63 West 44th Street. This U.S. Centre, like those of England and France, is being formed from officially selected representatives of each of the important theater groups and of individuals active in the field. The Centre will establish liaison with international organizations in the entertainment field, it will analyze the program of the Paris UNESCO meetings, and draw up a working plan for the U.S. future participation in the international movement. Since the Federal Government has no program in support of the arts, the United States is faced with very special problems, both of coordination and financing of an activity such as the United States Centre for the International Theatre Institute.

UNESCO Relations Staff Director Addresses World Alliance

Charles A. Thomson, director of the UNESCO Relations Staff and executive secretary of the National Commission, addressed a meeting of the World Alliance of the Y.M.C.A. in Washington in March, having as his theme the exchange-ofpersons program of UNESCo. At the same meeting Senator J. William Fulbright discussed the exchange-of-persons program under the Fulbright

act.