31 MAY 1946, Page 4

These initials are getting pestiferous. The Manchester Guardian, reporting the

meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in New York, heads it, "First Meeting of U.N.E.S.C.0." But it wasn't. E can stand for Educational as well as Economic, and S for Scientific as well as Social. U.N.E.S.C.O. is actually United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

pains,