paid. It was therefore unprepared to do more than provisionally adopt the Scheme, pending the general survey already mentioned of salaries and allow ances which the United Nations is to make. The Medical Benents Scheme will therefore continue to operate temporarily, subject to further review, particularly of a detailed actuarial analysis of its operation to be presented at the next General Conference.
94. Amendments to Staff Regulations. We have no comments to offer except to say that these regulations are binding upon the Director-General in respect of the appointment, status, responsibilities and privileges of staff members. Certain changes in the existing regulations were necessary owing to changing circumstances and these were approved with general agreement. 95. Distribution by Nationality of Staff.-The question of the number of vacancies on the staff which each Member State is filling has always been a subject of debate and complaint by the smaller nations. Of the 293 staff members between the upper grades 5 to 18, 48 were filled by the United States, 47 by the United Kingdom, 37 by France and 10 each by Canada and Belgium. Of the remaining 40 States none has more than 10, the majority have many less, such as India 8, Australia 5 and New Zealand 3, and some have none at all including several of the Latin American States. This situation is the more unsatisfactory in an Organisation which proclaims that every nation has a contribution to make to education, science and culture. The United Kingdom, in voicing its regret at the present distribu- tion, also clearly stated that the first criterion in the selection of staff must nevertheless remain that of the suitability of the candidate for the post irrespective of his nationality. The burden of the solution lies upon the Member States themselves who should provide candidates of the necessary quality and it was a resolution in this sense that the Conference adopted.
96. Organisation of the Secretariat.-Several references have been made to the important resolution concerning the organisation of the Secretariat and the balance between administration and programme personnel. This resolution requested the Director-General to consider critically "the need for facilitating and accelerating operational action by programme departments and for concentrating a larger measure of administrative responsibility upon the heads of programme departments." It also pointed out the need to effect economies both financially and in personnel in the Administration. We therefore look to the Fourth Session of the General Conference to ensure that substantial improvements have been made.
5. OFFICIAL AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS
97. Introduction.—The relationship of the headquarters secretariat with the Governments and National Commissions of Member States, the inter- relationship between those Governments and Commissions, their function with regard to non-member States and their co-operation with the United Nations, its Specialised Agencies and the great number of international non- governmental organisations concerned with education, science and culture,« these constitute those aspects of the Organisation's work which are referred to as its official and external relations. This somewhat formal title covers what is, in many respects, the most important element in UNESCO's exist- ence, the maintenance of the widest network of intercommunication and inter-relationship between individuals, institutions, communities, nations and governments.
98. These matters were considered at length by a special commission on Official and External Relations, of which Mr. D. R. Hardman, Parliamentary