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For the last few years India has been getting two things to which it is not accustomed: good monsoons and bumper crops. If this keeps up, they may get a third—a wheat deal with Moscow, which is once again in the market for the agricultural surpluses of non-Communist countries. Funny how they never get good weather.

Having liberated the U.S. from the UN’s International Labor Organization, Mr. Carter should now turn his attention to another organ of the world body: the UN’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, which is even more malignant than the ILO. Writing in the London Sunday Telegraph, Gordon Brook-Shepherd notes that while the ILO is a propaganda base for Communist nations, UNESCO is something more, a major base for Communist espionage. Of the approximately one hundred Soviets working for the Paris-based organization, no fewer than forty are agents of either the Soviet civilian or military network. That there is no hope for cleansing from within can be safely assumed. The head of UNESCO is Sean MacBride, a former IRA chief of staff, a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize, and, mind you, a Nobel Peace Prize, who is not known as a Red-baiter. One of MacBride’s recent statements: “The capitalist system is terrorism and the people are forced to take up arms and revolt against the system.”

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For the last few years India has been getting two things to which it is not accustomed: good monsoons and bumper crops. If this keeps up, they may get a third—a wheat deal with Moscow, which is once again in the market for the agricultural surpluses of non-Communist countries. Funny how they never get good weather.

Having liberated the U.S. from the UN’s International Labor Organization, Mr. Carter should now turn his attention to another organ of the world body: the UN’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, which is even more malignant than the ILO. Writing in the London Sunday Telegraph, Gordon Brook-Shepherd notes that while the ILO is a propaganda base for Communist nations, UNESCO is something more, a major base for Communist espionage. Of the approximately one hundred Soviets working for the Paris-based organization, no fewer than forty are agents of either the Soviet civilian or military network. That there is no hope for cleansing from within can be safely assumed. The head of UNESCO is Sean MacBride, a former IRA chief of staff, a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize, and, mind you, a Nobel Peace Prize, who is not known as a Red-baiter. One of MacBride’s recent statements: “The capitalist system is terrorism and the people are forced to take up arms and revolt against the system.”