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Executive BoardThe nineteenth session of the Executive Board of UNESCO met from February 13 to 25,1950. Discussion of the program to be presented to the fifth session of the General Conference continued. The Board attempted to design the program to fit a budget of $8,000,000 — the same figure as for 1950. Other arrangements for the Florence Conference were completed. Invitations were sent to the occupying authorities in the Eastern and Western Zones of Germany and in Japan to send observers, accompanied, if they wished, by expert nationals, to the General Conference. A credit of $40,000 was extended to allow UNESCO to continue for the rest of 1950 its assistance to refugee children in the Middle East. The Board discussed other program activities including the sending of a mission of experts to Ecuador to advise in fundamental education experiments in the areas recently devastated by earthquake. Finally it was decided to recommend that the Conference accept the applications for membership from the United States of Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, and the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan.

At the end of 1948 Julian Huxley, retiring Director-General of UNESCO, reported on the work accomplished by the organization during the year. In the social sciences considerable progress had been made in the study of tensions affecting international understanding, while a series of monographs had been written about the different ways of life of different national cultures and surveys had been commenced on ways to bring out ideas of the general public on their own and other countries. Modern techniques to change psychological attitudes were also being discussed.

The third session of the General Conference of UNESCO met in Beirut, Lebanon from November 17 through December 11, 1948, with 36 member nations represented and official observers from eight other countries. Jaime Torres Bodet, Julian Huxley. Paris was selected for the site of the fourth session in September 1949, and a budget of $7,780,000 was approved. During the session, Switzerland completed the requirements to become the 45th member nation and the application of Monaco was approved. Ceylon's application was referred to the Economic and Social Council for advice, while Israel withdrew its application.

The Mexico City Conference of UNESCO allocated the following amounts to the program budgets: reconstruction, $614,141; fundamental education, $255,035; education for international understanding, $433,584; mass communications, $944,797; natural science field stations, $311,261; Hylean Amazon project, $55,750; study of social tensions, $159,732; exchange of persons, $130,420; exchange of information, $423,302; and national commissions and cooperating bodies, $52,109. Specific progress was made on a number of these projects during the period under review.

General Conference: The second general conference of UNESCO met in Mexico City on November 7, 1947, and elected Manuel Gual Vidal, Mexican Minister of Education, as Chairman. Four additional states — Italy, Switzerland, Hungary and Austria — were admitted to membership, the first two by unanimous vote, and the Spanish Republican Government in Exile was invited to attend the conference as an observer. Items on the agenda included a) consideration of the Director-General's report for 1947; b) approval of a budget for 1948; c) extension of the work of UNESCO to Germany; and d) a report on the definition of the scope and purpose of UNESCO's fundamental education project.

Executive Board: Preliminary plans for the remainder of 1947 were considered by the Executive Board of UNESCO, which met in Paris on April 10, 1947. Among various projects studied by the Board, two, in particular, occupied attention because of the immediate need for work in those fields. These were the re-education of Germany and the removal of barriers to the free flow of news and ideas between different countries.

International organization — Officials — I.L.O. Administrative Tribunal — Admissibility of complaints

492 International organization — Officials — Administrative decision to withdraw an official from his functions and place him on special leave with pay — Due process.

International organization — Officials — UNESCO Appeals Board — Erroneous decision by Appeals Board that it lacked jurisdiction to hear an appeal — Remand of case for reconsideration on merits by Appeals Board — Exception d'illégalité.

International organization — Officials — Non-renewal of fixed-term contract — Suspension from duty.

International organization — Officials — Termination of appointment — Abolition of post — Discretionary power — Duty to consider redundant official for alternative employment.