HC Deb 08 May 1950 vol 475 c28W
Mr. E. Fletcher

asked the Minister of Education who will be the United Kingdom delegates to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Conference at Florence.

Mr. Tomlinson

The delegates to the Fifth Session of the General Conference of Unesco will beMr. D. R. Hardman, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education (who will lead the Delegation); General Sir Ronald Adam, Bt., G.C.B., D.S.O., C.B.E., Chairman, The British Council; Sir Henry French, G.B.E. K.C.B., Director-General, British Film Producers' Association; Dr. J. S. Huxley, F.R.S., First Director-General of Unesco; Professor Sir Charles Webster, K.C.M.G., F.B.A., Stevenson Professor of International History, London School of Economics.

The alternate delegates will be: Sir George Thomson, F.R.S., Professor of Physics, Imperial College of Science; Miss L. E. Charlesworth, Headmistress, Sutton High School for Girls and Vice-Chairman Council for Education in World Citizenship; Professor R. N. Armfelt, Professor of Education, University of Leeds; Sir John Maud, K.C.B., C.B.E., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education.

The delegation will also include as advisers: Mr. A. Ollennu, Member of the Legislative Council, The Gold Coast; Mr. Harry Bell, O.B.E., J.P., Rector of Dollar Academy; Mr. B. B. Thomas, Permanent Secretary, Welsh Department, Ministry of Education; Professor Ronald Syme, F.B.A., Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford.