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UNESCO… and international cooperation in the physical sciences

JAN 01, 1952
The mutual aim of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (Unesco) and the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) is organized international scientific cooperation. The two agencies and their work are discussed in the following article.
Ronald Frazer

Whether in the written or the spoken word, I have long chosen to follow the example of Edmund Spenser in his preface to the Faerie Queene, when he elects to “thrust into the middest” of his subject with the first line of the first canto.

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Ronald Frazer, Unesco House, 19 Avenue Kleber, Paris 16, France.

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