Ad-daleel., 1946-09-04
THEY SAID LAST WEEK

Slonal resolution authorizing the United
States to join the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization:
The United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization will summon to
service in the cause of peace the forces of
education, science, learning and the creative
arts, and the agencies of the film, the radio
and the printed word, through which know
ledge and ideas are diffused among mankind.
The Government of the United States will
work with and through (this organization) to
the end that the minds of all people may be
freed from ignorance, prejudice, suspicion
and fear, and that men may be educated for
justice, liberty and peace. If peace is to en-
dure, education must establish the moral
unity of mankind"
Secretary of State Byrnes, in his address at
the opening session of the twenty-one nation
peace conference in Paris:
1.-The very fact that the drafts (of the peace
t~reaties) which go before this conference have
been prepared in advance ensures that all
those present will have an opportunity to
express themselves on concrete proposals
which are likely, in some form or other, to
find their way into the final peace treaties.
After the First World War the smaller states
were free to express their views before the
concrete peace proposals were formulated.
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come to an agreement on the important issues
that the smaller states had little opportunity
to review the actual decisions, once they were
made by the Big Four. The drafts submitted
to this conference are not the proposals which
the United States would make if the United
States were the sole arbiter of peace. But
neither are they the proposals which any
other state has collaborated in their drafting
would make if it were the sole arbiter of
peace. The proposals, however, represent a
very real effort on the part of the states
which cooperated in their preparation to
reach a common understanding l hope
that the delegates will feel free to express
the views of their respective states on the
proposed treaties. No nation, large or small,
can be insensitive to world opinion"
Alfred SCHNEIDER, Under Secretary of Com
MERGE, at a meeting of the Commerce and
Industry Association of New York:
""The way to improve the standard of
living for everybody is to increase the pro-
duction of goods and services-not to initiate
the price of those being produced. Here we
must remember that greater production will
come only from those producers who price
their products within the range most con-
sumers can afford to pay. Mass production
can only continue and grow if there is mass
distribution and mass consumption. In the
final analysis the consumer establishes his
own ceiling price. Most consumers have to.
A businessman can be equeezed just as much
by the consumers inability to pay his price
as he can be squeezed by any Governmental
control of his prices"
DR.. Margaret Mead, associate curator at the
American Museum of Natural History, speak
ing at the Vassar Institute of Family and
Community Living:
Americans believe that machines should
be taken care of and that people should be
let alone to sink or swim. If we come to think
of world organization, world trade, world
exchanges of ideas as parts of a great COM
plicated machine, then we can take a lot of
responsibility for keeping it in good repair
and improving it from year to year by getting