I do not always find myself at one with the
Sunday Express.' but I think it has performed some service in giving the salaries, I assume accurately, of some of the British members of the staff of U.N.E.S.C.O. The first (who I believe drew £1,000 a year subject to tax in his previous employment) now gets £3,900 tax- free. The second draws £3,640, the third £3,460, the fourth and fifth £2,950, the sixth £2,800—tax-free in all cases. (Dollars converted to sterling equivalent.) It is not for me to suggest that these gentlemen—and all of the lower-range employees who are paid proportionately—are not worth all this. But the question is: (a) What would they get as ordinary officials in Great Britain, and (b) can we really afford this kind of thing—for Britain bears a substantial share of the U.N.E.S.C.O. burden? It is probably too late now to get these questions pressed home as they should be in the House of Commons this session. But the U.N.E.S.C.O. item ought not to slip by • unchallenged in the next Ministry of Education estimates.
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