Your 447. [1]

1. I saw D. No. 1965 [2] for the first time to-day. The views
expressed accord with the line taken throughout the Executive
Committee by the United Kingdom with the general object of
strengthening the United Nations Organisation and, in my view, all
their arguments have considerable force. On the Executive
Committee experience I agree completely with the first paragraph.

2. There would seem to be nothing in the functions of the
Educational Organisation which would suffer from its creation as
an integral part of the United Nations and there would be great
practical advantages for educational body as well as United
Nations in regard to staff, administration, budget, management and
availability of common services, such as a statistical Bureau. In
the light of experience here I would [3] the last sentence of
paragraph 1 and paragraph 4 of D. No. 1965. If exchange of views
at the November Educational Conference [4] could lead to actual
creation of an educational body at the January meeting of the
General Assembly there would be prospect of immediate organisation
of its staff to tackle urgent reconstruction problems, thus
starting a new body with emphasis on practice, rather than on
programmes and saving it from some of the faults of the old Paris
Institute. [5] I also feel strongly that such a demonstration of
co-operation in the prompt performance of practical tasks would
have a very good effect for the United Nations itself,
particularly as the Assembly may meet in a period of political
uncertainty. Anything we can do in this and related fields of
social and economic endeavour to give substance to the first
meeting of the Assembly and to lay precise tasks on the New World
Organisation during the January-April interval may well have
considerable effect on its successful establishment.

3. These views also apply to other fields in which we are
interested, e.g. employment. Tange [6] succeeded in maintaining
recognition of our policy and the proposal for an Economic and
Employment Commission goes forward to Preparatory Commission. We
should be consistent, making each instance strengthen the other.

If we wish to make an early practical start with precise proposals
for Employment Commission it may help us to quote parallel action
in other fields.

4. One practical difficulty in the way of creating an Educational
Body inside the United Nations may be raised in relation to United
Nations Head-Quarters and the French, who are strongest advocates
of a separate Organisation, largely because they see Paris as the
traditional centre of western culture, will make much of this
point.

5. Finally, attention is drawn to the fact that the Educational
Body may be established as a Subsidiary Organisation under Article
22, rather than as a Commission of Economic and Social Council and
I understand that the British have the first mentioned method in
mind.