800.42/4–1145
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
The Secretary of State refers to the Department’s telegram no. 1712 of March 6, 1945, 7:00 p.m.,2 concerning the draft constitution for a United Nations educational and cultural organization. The Department has practically completed its study of this draft and has decided to propose the establishment of a permanent international educational and cultural agency.
Attached is the revised draft constitution3 approved by the United States Government as its proposal for an international organization for education and cultural cooperation. The draft may still be slightly modified to emphasize somewhat more the cultural as distinct from the educational functions, but the main lines are fixed. The draft is being explained to the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education in London at its meeting on April 11, 1945. The Officer in Charge should immediately submit this draft to the authorities of the British Government for their information and reactions. Similar instructions are being sent to the Officers in Charge of the American Missions in France, Russia, and China.
[Telegram 2994, April 17, to London, authorized the presentation of the American draft to the Drafting Committee of the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education on April 18 “but only as a confidential document for their information and use. No reactions have yet been received from Moscow, Paris, or Chungking.” (800.42/4–1245)]