Dr. Luther H. Evans director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, announced here today that he will launch a program to try to eliminate “inflammatory” teaching of children in the Arab refugee camps whose minds “can be poisoned” against Israel.
“I know there has been a great deal of teaching of inflammatory views among the refugee children,” Dr. Evans declared. “Teachers are teaching children in schools that some day they will return to their homeland and are saying derogatory things about the people now inhabiting their homeland.”
Dr. Evans said that he will propose to the next worldwide conference of UNESCO the adoption of a resolution “calling on member states to discourage teaching of the schools inflammatory political points of view concerning relations with other nations.” UNESCO has between 11 and 15 educational experts working with the Arab “host” governments and with the UN Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine refugees assisting the educational programs for the refugee children.
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