The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

SUCH accounts of the proceedings of the General conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation held in Paris last September as are yet available in Britain indicate that the Organisation has been brought to face the question as to the real value given, for its expenditure, estimated at almost nine million dollars for the current year. Of this sum, two million dollars is for general administration, one million for education, nearly two millions for communications, more than 800,000 for the natural sciences, more than 450,000 for the social sciences and 400,000 dollars for the reconstruction programme. The United States and Great Britain supply something more than half the income, the rest being made up by the British Commonwealth, including India, the countries of Western Union, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, with small contributions from Afghanistan, Austria, the Lebanon, Liberia, the Philippines, Thailand and Venezuela.