@WASHINGTON [May 2, Kyodo News Service] \ The U.S. Secretary of Education
Rod Paige on May 2 in a talk with Atsuko Toyama, Minister of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, who was visiting Washington, showed
a positive attitude toward rejoining the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which the country had left in 1984
disapproving of the management and policy of the organization. He said,
gWe hope to return in the near future.h@It was made public by Minister
Toyama in her press interview.@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@[May 4 morning edition of the Asahi, May 3 TV news of NHK, etc.] @ ![]() @ @As those who are engaged in the nongovernmental UNESCO movement, ![]() we expect the United States to rejoin UNESCO as soon as possible. @Wefd like all Americans to recall that the famous words in the preamble of the Constitution of UNESCO gsince wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructedh are in fact the words polished by an American poet Archibald MacLeish.@Among the people who got together to establish UNESCO, MacLeish was one of the U.S. representatives.@Wefd like Americans to remember with pride the greatness of the poet who, refining the draft that the British Prime Minister Clement Atlee had made quoting from gThe General Epistle of James, Chapter 4h in the New Testament, expressed the idea in such a beautiful and lofty tone as a crystallized UNESCO spirit.@Wefd like Americans to inherit that spirit.@Together with American friends we wish to recite and keep firmly in mind these beautiful words that will hopefully bring peace to the world.@We earnestly hope that the United States will fill as soon as possible the great void left for the past seventeen years that it has been out of UNESCO, and contribute to world peace. |