Statement by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath

STATEMENT* But this indirect route to the goal of amity among nations is too slow The unstable international situation requires that a specialized program dealing with problems of international understanding and peace be made an integral part of the work of schools and of informal educational agencies. It is urgently necessary that the people of all nations come to know samething of their fellow men in other areas of the globe. A vigorous campaign of education is therefore needed, focused directly on problems of international understanding. The U. S. National Commission for UNESCO has enlisted the cooperation of many cultural organizations in the crucial task of educating our people about the purposes of UNESCO and the part which they can play in- it. Nevertheless, much yet remains to be done in making Americans conscious of the work of this important agency. *By Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C., published in the U. S. National Commission UNESCO News, Vol. III, No. 12, June 1950.