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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 13, No. 22. September 21, 1950

. . . With Verbiage . .

. . . With Verbiage . . .

To return to words again, it was inevitable that a UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation should in its early days get bogged down. Talk about education, science and culture in any language and you get inevitably bogged down. In seven or eight languages you tend to take refuge in incantation, and there are undoubtedly some people at conferences who haven't got past that stage yet. Still, once again consider the part that incantation plays in the national scene before you tend to despair. The difficulty of course is to do anything solid about "Culture," to do something on an international scale which is not just propaganda, or professional liaison or simply rahrah stuff without any significance whatever.