its ultimate destiny. Despite the recent examples two such territories now afford, namely Burma and Caydon, the true tenor of British Colonial adminis tration is rarely appreciated and frequently misunderstood.
105. The United Kingdom Delegation fortunately had no reason to com- plain of the attitude of the Third General Conference of UNESCO in Beirut to this question. The Conference was assured by the United Kingdom Dele- gation that steps would be taken by His Majesty's Government to discover how best to associate British Colonial territories with the policy and purpose of UNESCO. .
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106. UNESCO's Relations with Germany and Japan.-Few questions be- fore UNESCO have in the past been found to raise greater difficulties than the Organisation's relations with Germany. Memories of Germany's aggression are understandably deep and exceedingly bitter. There has, therefore, been a natural sympathy with Member States, particularly those of Eastern Europe, who would seek sharply to restrict the role which UNESCO' might play in Germany. On the other hand there are Member States who have also suffered very severely from the armed might and still more from the civil administration of Nazi Germany, who yet turn their thoughts from the past and view the problem rather from the point of view of the possible future impact of UNESCO's work upon the German people.
107. From these contrasting views a policy of action has now emerged. It represents the conclusions of discussions begun at the Second Session of the General Conference in 1947 and continued in the Executive Board dur- ing 1948. The relatively small budgetary allocation approved for these activities ($75,000) indicates the restricted scope they are likely to have during 1949. Nevertheless a beginning has been made. Within the frame- work outlined by the resolutions UNESCO may circulate books and other publications, exchange information and facilitate links through visits and the exchange of persons thereby to restore to some extent that fruitful rela- tionship between the leaders of education, science and culture of Germany and the rest of the world whose beneficient results and great promise of future benefits was tragically shattered by the triumph in Germany of all those forces against which the whole spirit and purpose, not merely of UNESCO, but of the League of Nations and of the United Nations, was and is now being mobilised.
108. The Conference emphasised in its resolutions that UNESCO's work in this field should be undertaken solely through the appropriate allied authorities in Germany. The Conference authorised the Director General to create advisory committees of experts to guide the Organisation in the administration of the approved programme in Germany and Japan respec- tively. The absence of the Soviet Union which is not a member of UNESCO and its refusal to accept the Organisation's proposals will mean that the present programme will not operate outside the Western Zones of Germany. 109. A broadly similar proposal without, however, any such territorial restriction was also approved for Japan.
110. Admission of Diminutive States to Membership of UNESCO.—The application of the Principality of Monaco to join the Organisation was con- sidered by the Second Session of the General Conference and referred to the Economic and Social Council for advice as a general problem of policy affecting all the United Nations Organisations.
111. The matter was again considered by the Official and External Rela- tions Commission in the light of the reply from the Economic and Social Council. The United States Delegation proposed a new category of Associate
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