Unesco Salaries
SIR,—The answer to Janus's question, "Can we really afford this kind of thing ? " is that the United Nations and its specialised agencies cost less than the wars they are working to prevent. The answer to his other question as to how much Unesco officials would earn if they were ordinary officials in Great Britain is perhaps typified in my own experience. Measured in pounds, my net income from employment in one of the middle grades of the secretariat, free of tax, comes to roughly double what was left to me after tax from my employment in London eighteen months ago ; but living with one's family in Paris costs more than double, so that financially there is no advantage but rather the reverse. The reward is of another kind.—Yours faithfully,
UNESCAN.
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