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against Communist infiltration in UN groups was a factor threatening to destroy
UNESCO." 10 [Italics added.]
The following item appeared in newspapers on September 25, 1954. The article is
speaking about the Institute of Pacific Relations, which, as previously mentioned, has
been officially described as Soviet dominated. The news dispatch said: "Two problems
confront the organization. One is that the work it set out to do is now being duplicated by
wealthier and better equipped world organizations such as the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)." 11
In its own literature and periodicals, UNESCO makes its position clear. The Communist
Guardian of Melbourne, England, in its May 28, 1959, issue, recommended the UNESCO
Courier to its readers as "a monthly magazine deserving of wide distribution." 12 The
Courier is so blatant in its Communist propaganda that even the most unobserving reader
can scarcely miss it.
As we have pointed out several times, not all of the people who are advancing the cause
of the United Nations and its specialized agencies are doing so with malice aforethought.
As a matter of fact there are relatively few who are. It has always been the pattern of
successful Communist operation to have unsuspecting idealists do most of the work while
the Communists stay in the background pulling the strings and issuing the directives.
Consequently, many good people are victimized into lending their time, their reputations
and their money. Unfortunately once a person has done this he gradually acquires a
vested interest in his own error and even though he finds more and more aspects of the
United Nations which run counter to his sensibilities, he tends to brush them aside rather
than swallow his pride and admit that he made an original mistake in judgment. Most
humans are like that, but occasionally there is an exception.
Mr. John M. Larson, as an active, respected and well-known citizen in his community, had
been invited by the State Department to become a member of the United States National
Commission for UNESCO. Like most Americans, he considered this to be an honor and
felt that it was his duty to accept, which be did. He soon discovered, however, that he had
been invited solely for the prestige that his name would add to the commission. He was
expected to be satisfied with the role of a yes-man for all the decisions of the full-time staff
and senior members of the commission. He expressed a desire to participate in UNESCO
planning sessions as he was theoretically allowed to do¾ volunteering to travel at his own
expense. But he was not advised of the meetings. He tried to make his voice felt through
correspondence and personal visits with the commission secretariat. He was ignored as
were his recommendations. Finally he resigned in protest. Here is what Mr. Larson
revealed:
With respect to UNESCO's literature, it has very little substance, and
what little it does have, appears overtly or covertly to be slanted away
from the spiritual and political beliefs and traditions of the United States
of America toward the sterile conceptions of a nebulous one-world
government or federation which is to be built upon atheistic foundations.
. . . I found grave errors of omission and distortions of perspective with
respect to historical trends and events and to the growth and
development of certain ideas. For these reasons, it is important to
analyze what UNESCO does not present and proclaim as well as what it
does present and proclaim, in order to gain an understanding of what its
aims are. . . . Peoples today are interested in achieving some sort of