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DECENTRALISATION PROPOSED REGIONAL BASIS ADVOCATED LONDON, July 7. The executive secretary. Professor Julian Huxley, has sent a memorandum to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (U.N.E.5.C.0.) urging the need to decentralise the organisation by establishing separate offices in 10 regions—namely, North America; the Caribbean; South America; Western Europe; Eastern Europe and Russia; the Middle East, including North Africa; Africa south of the Sahara; India, Burma, Ceylon; the Far East; and finally AusProfessor Huxley expressed the opinion that there were some fields, such as atomic energy, in which common action could best be achieved on a world-level, but for most subjects the regional was the most convenient stage on which the passage from national to international action could be achieved.
He added that the greatest care must be taken to guard against the possibility of regional offices becoming a basis for a new type of regional cultural nationalism, or falling under the exclusive influence of a powerful nation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26200, 10 July 1946, Page 5
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