1948-10-29 — Page 11

The Strange Case Of UNESCO'S MISSING FUNDS

By GEORGE CAMPEY

AS-a member of the United forces involved when human minds

Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi- sation, Britain will this year have to pay £267,600.

re in

Unesco is also busy with an Ta- ternational Ideas Bureau, a Unesco World Radio Network. fundamental education, copyright, a charter for fenchers, aims to popularise art, the breaking down of Customs bar- Tho man who has to fout this riers, the setting up of philosophic bf-the British taxpayer-might Round Tables, the preparation of reasonably expeel an explanation" regliter of workers. instituten. of what it will be spent on Let activities, research resources and him then, turn to the references. physical facilities in selected fields The Stationery Office has pub of education, science and culture.' lished a White Paper of documents the protection of nature... reinting to the second session of In another Stationery Office Unesco's general conference at publication which seeks to explain Mexico City Jast November and Unesco, the taxpayer can read that December. From this the taxpayer "everything contributing effectively will and that the United Kingdom's to human sympathy through intel- contribution to the Organisation'a lectual and spiritual forces

£2,000,000 budget this year is 13,38 Unesco's business." He learns that per cent more than twice as much while it is hard to make."readable as any other member nation except and comprehensive" the programme America, which pays 41.80 per cent. formulated at Mexica City It can be crystallised as "on effort to ease the birth of the educational, cultural and scientific life of world kociety? VIGILANT MINDS

'ADVENTURE'

НЕ

TE will And a reference to "the good ship Unesco" setting out on

and "voyages of adventure

dis-

covery." He will find a mass of MONEY will "largely be spent on

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of

resolutions set out like haberdasher's catalogue-full rugged idealism and often cauched in high-flown inngunge.

muking it possible for some of the most able minds and skilled talents to work on the diffusion of ideas of human chority among all the nations who are ready to listen."

These minds will be vigilant for "Social tensions," for example. are the feelings or attitudes that happenings which reflect the under- And are inclined to affect international lying sympathy of mankind.

White as an example the

Paper understanding. And Unesco has or-

half the dered an inquiry into the modern offers the story of how

been men of a village risked their Ilves

which

have

techniques developed in education, political to take a boat to the rescue of un- known sailors who were wrecked science, philosophy and psychology

attitudes and on their const, for changing mental

the mission the processes

Britain. in

for revealing

BRUDER PRESS SERVICE.

und

“John, dear, I thought you told me the car was insured against theft!”

That, in outline. is of Unesco-according documents published

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1948.

"The first important lesson in golf is concentration-keeping your eye on the ball..."

C.V.R. Thompson REPORTING THE

U.S. SCENE

NEW YORK.

New Yorker lang gone to gaol to decide if or not he likes it enough to commit the crime which will keep him there for the next five years. Stuart Perkoff, 18-year-old would-be, actor, has been called up, but refuses to serve because "I will not take one step in aid of war."

He told the police court that he came to New York from St Louis, where his father owns a tavern, for culture.

"Mengre as it is," he said, "New York happens to be the cultural centre of our country, and it is culture in which I am interested."

His father, his lawyer, even the magistrate, pleaded with the bespectacled youth to change his mind. He refused,

Then his lawyer made a proposal.. Perhaps, he sald, the defendant will change his mind after spending a few days in a gaol cell. The magistrate agreed.

With mock politeness the City Marshal bowed Perkoff into his cell and said: "I hope you like our Rol." Perkoff has until Friday to make his choice.

ERTROIT was warned by one of its leaders. D. G. Rods, that it is risking economle disaster by build- ing longer and heavier cars in face of steel, oil and rubber shortages. What is wanted, he says, is a light- weight car capable of 30 miles to the gallon,

Mrs Oksana Kasenkina's

Own Story

to the two TH HAT the international spot

On

light would be turned But there is one side of Unesco's me, that I would be represented affairs which the British taxpayer to the world as the protagonist has not seen. The White Paper on

a bizarre plot, and that I the Mexico conference omita a of clause which appears in the official would find myself a prisoner in records published by the Organisa- the Soviet Consulate, all within tion in Paris.

the span of a single afternoon, were inconceivable to me after I left the farm of the Tolstoy Foundation.

A sub-committee was appolated

adminis to examine the financial tration of Unesco. And this is what they found: "It is clear beyond

any doubt that, at least till the begin- ning of this year, the accounts of kept in a were the Organisation most haphazard manner, not to put and that it stronger than that, there was hardly any control over accounts and expenditure."

on

Upon my arrival at the Consulate, I was taken up to the study of the Consul-General Lomakin third floor. There was a man in the room I had never seen before. Lomakin introduced him: "This is A few pages further on M. G. L.out Ambassador." I looked directly Peissel, Comptroller of the Organisa-at Panyushkin, and saw deep satis- tlon, reports Information be gave faction written on his face at the to the Mexico conference,

"What A questioner had asked: amount was involved In the defalen- tions of the Cashier? Was any of it recovered?”

Replied M. Peissel: "The amount was 1,173,339 francs. Unfortunately none of it was recovered. It appears from the proceedings in court that It was lost in gambling."

TELL US ALL

THIS is a piquant passage from the nifairs of Unesco. What is more,

it is the least pedantic and romantic

of

the langunge used by The idealists. Its omission is one of two remarkable things about the British presentation of the Unesco case. The other is that in nearly every parilculer except the grand total, the Unesco budget differs from that as presented by the American re- port and the official Paris record.

Nellher of these things is likely to strengthen the Unesco case. For £207,600 we get noble words and lofty aspirations. We might nt least also get the full story.

'sight of the quarry,

He greeted me coldly. Yet hopa stirred within me as he said:

"What a pity you didn't try to see me before. Didn't you know that the Soviet Government had an Am

Washington? bassador

in didn't you come to me in the first place?"

No Offer To Help

AT Inst, 1 thought, here was

authorities, adding that I had never committed any crime. I mentioned that I had become the butt of all the Party members around

the school because of my constant an xiety to learn the fate of my son.

"And where is your son?" the Ambassador asked. When I told him that I had inst heard of my boy on January 12, 1042. as reported "missing in action," he said laugh- ngly: "Perhaps your son really is

still alive."

The Ambassador made no offer to have the army records checked or to help me in any way in my search It- for information about my son. stead, he cut the interview short.

We can't bother with such things now," he interrupted. "We have to expose the Tolstoy Foundation and find out where the Samarins are."

Hold Prisoner

will

be your

Instalment 19

Related To

And Edited By Isaac Don Levine

and

wanted was a completely new ver- sion of my letter, in which I would declare in writing that I had been, kidnapped by White Guards,, who had taken me drugged me first, against my will to the Tolstoy Foundation farm. Chepurnykh also dinned into my ears that the new letter must be short, to be exhibited to the press, and must include some tribute by me to "the great Stalin, the leader of my beloved father land."

UT THE CAR Patrick Murotta Bbullt for his five-year-old son, Tommy, was too small. Palico in Boonton, New Jersey, arrested Tommy for driving along the street in a two-feet high roadster equipped with ü three-quarters of horse-power motor. The charge - Driving without a licence.

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the score were York

a

of cold perfection.

was told that photographers would PLANNERS, by

and that these spols be present,

busy re-planning New would be material evidence of great into a rel consequence. I protested that they But Lewis Mumford, an author hardly showed and that they were stopped them cold. He asked: "In meaningless anyhow, as I did not all your planning how many hiding know their origin. All my protesta-places for lovers have you planned, tions were brushed asido peremp- how many nooks and crannies torily.

where children may throw stones?" Shamefacedly the planners replied: I realised that I was lu a trop."None. We didn't think of that." Lomaldin. Chepurnyld and aides were rehearsing the story with me, and kept briefing me on how to behave and what to say in

their

my interpreters the opportunity to

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THE SPRING THAWS there will be a gold miners'

I would not budge, and dropped

Hurriedly Chepurnykh answer to questions, I was to take | WITH tho pen. then outlined to me the highlights the lead from them and do as little of the story that I was to give to the talking as possible, so as to give rush to Alaska. But the prospectors press downstairs. It was a

will not be hunting for gold, but night marish concoction of a plot which,

uranium, of which atom bombs are made. The largest uranium deposit only NKVD minds could Invent. explain what had happened.

As I was led downstairs to face a ever discovered la reported from The design sketched by Chepumykh teamed together two total strangers battery of reporters, in a condition the Seward Peninsula, in America's who had never

"Leo Costello" of suppressed hysteria, Chepurnykh|northernmost possession. and Dr

"Korzhinsic

and entangled warned the ominously: them with Vladimir Zenzinov and "Watch your stept" Countess Tolstoy, who had never heard of their existence.

OMAKIN and Vice-Consul Che- purnykh then took me in hand.

The marks on my arm suddenly Lomakin pointed to an adjoining

Importance. 1 room, the door of which was open, assumed enormous

***** Why and said:

room. I had notleed a cot in 1,1 which seemed out of place in an office with three telephones, and decided that preparations had been made in advance to put me up!

I realised that there.

would not be free to select a residence of my own choice, and was filled with ap- prehension that ow

that the room on the third floor would become my

cell. My passport was taken up and examined---nover--saw it again. Lomakin informed me that I would soon meet the representatives of the American press for an inter-

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humane Soviet official who would listen to my grievances and would

plight, understand my

evel my worries over my missing ron. was prepared to hear him reproach me for concealing the fact that my husband had been purged and for my failure to sail back arranged.

home as

began to tell Ambassador Pan- yushkin of the persecution to which I had been subjected during my two years in the United States at the hands of the school and Consular

YOU ARE WRONG IF YOU

THINK DOGS ARE BRAINY

BOOM in thoroughbreds and

to sniff the man's hand and told to find the piece he had touched.

the news that cocker spaniels By CHAPMAN PINCHER It got the right chip every time.

had ousted mongrels os favourites were top talking _pois when Cruft's Show opened in London this north after a nlue-year break.

In that time the Kennel Chub's register of pedigree pups has grown to double its prewar length. And Britain's dog population has climbed back to 3,000,000 in spite of a wartime drop of 500,000 causext by feeding difficulties.

even

view.

"You will tell them how you were kidnapped," he added. I reflected that since I was apparently myself in the hands of kidnappers, how could I possibly stand up against them now?

When asked about my relations with Countess Tolstoy, I emphati-

she cally declared that

had had nothing to do with the planning which brought me to the farm of her Foundation. I made up my mind that the name of the woman who trad suffered so much from Soviet tyranny and was sacrificing herself for the Russian DPs must not ba involved in the affair.

Marks On Arm

"WHO

In spite of this, scientists aro

HO did help you?" Chepurnykh convinced that no dog-not

asked. "We know all your EYESIGHT: A dog's vision in a bloodhound-can track down n friends and the people you met," he daylight is bad compared with a particular individual unless helped added. Then he brought up the man's. Unt night

ite sees less by someone unconsciously giving it than you do and

dimly, clues, Hig range of vision Is shorter, and he is almost certainly colour-

blind.

1t sees

rame of "Costello" or "Leo Costello"

which I had once jotted down on a

scrap of paper. This had probably HEATING; When you tell a dog been picked up by my landlord, to be quiet for barking at nothing Porojniakov, the Consulate It is almost sure to be barking

tary.

As the reader already knows.

secre

Evidence: While the human eye is specially constructed for use in something you fail to hear. Dogs it belonged to a casual acquaintance For popularity Alsatians run a bright light, the dogs's cyo is a can hear sounds too cof, too high, who frequented the same Central bad third to cockers and mongrels, compromise for round-the-clock and too low to be detected by the Park neighbourhood that I did, and with dachshunds and Pekes a vision.

was probably not even his real muzzle's length behind.

name.

Also boosted by the war-be- cause of the value of dogs in rescue and mine detection work+-wns

scientific research into imentality and make-up of our pets.

The

No

reason

So dogs scare at dusk, which to their eyes seems almost as bright

We win

1s nuon.

Dogs are also poor at Judging distance.

are A dog's eyes

human car.

a

-Evidence: A ball-bearing drop- ed from a height of one and quarter inches. Could be heard by dog 78 feat.. away. The hearing limit for people was 20 feet.

SIXTH SENSE?:, Army experi

But it has a Involved.

"Tell them that the márka on your arm were made by Costello," Lo- makin instructed me to say to thợ reporters.

"We'll make a national heroine

set ments to discover how dogs find out of you In the Soviet Union." slightly to the side of it head, burled mines have talled, None of Chepurnykh said. He tried to buoy so it sees more than a man with the five main senses seems to be me up as he wormed out of me the ⚫ pronouncements of the out turning round.

Scientists are investigat-name of "Dr. Korzhinsky", my other scientists are likely to cause more willer aren in which it can view ing the possibility of an unknown chance acquaintance who had in- apoplexy than agreement among things with both eyes nt once. sixth sense. This is what they say Since a sense of perspective depends dog-lovers. about

on this binocular vision, man is 10 INTELLIGENCE: Dogs are not percent better oft than the fox Intelligent. Experiments show they terrier. hove ability to learn, but they

cannot renson.

Food fact

troduced himself to me on Riverside Drive as a compatriot from the Ularning under the name of Ko- jansky,

In A Tráp

DIGESTION: Dogs are not being SMELL: Artiñcial breeding has greedy when they bolt their

food. Evidence: A dog was trained to almost destroyed the sense of smell Chewing serves little purpose be- TN the course of the interrogation,

by in food

the greyhourai, borzol,

when I was already in a state of open a box containing

and cause their saliva has no digestive These doga now hunt

exhaustion, I described how I met lifting a latch with its paw. Then, dachshund.

power.

Vladimir Zenzinov, who took me to when the dog was not looking, the by sight, but most breeds are box turned round. The

They cannot digest green vegate the Tolstoy Foundation farm, and dog dependent on scent that in the wiki WAS went straight to the part of the they would be far worse off without ables and they got no vitamins from told of

of my unhappiness. there, be a sense of smell than if they were them, We depend on greens for Chepurnykh then suggested that box where the latch used to

the vitamin C which protects da It kept on blind. and scratched there.

rewrite my original letter to the Evidence: A pinewood chip was from scurvy; dogs make their own. Consulate. I baulked at his dieta- doing this although the latch

Other

"dogs held in 'n man's hand andl the

Dogs can stay healthy on a starchy tion after I had started the clearly within view. tested all behaved the same way placeal by means of forceps with 20 diet-which explains why people version with the same beginning,

Scientists reject the evidence of other exactly simillar chips "Which with one ration book and a dog for "What happened had to be"

keep A two company have managed to dog-lovers, because, they say it 18 had not been handled.

I was unyielding when I realised always unconsciously humanised. `year-old sheepdog was then allowed their pets so fit.

that what Lomakin and Chepurnykh

wag

(Monday—A False Story For The World.)

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