observers were coming from Asia, a Seminar on “How a country 
     
     woman’s organization can help in developing her country” was pro- 
     
     posed. The women of the East were anxious to cooperate but there 
     
     was the usual question of cost. UNESCO was approached for help. 
     
     They approved the plan and gave a generous grant towards expenses. 
     
     Thirty students attended from Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Malaya, 
     
     Burma, Thailand. That Seminar will have many valuable results and 
     
     it was made possible to ACWW through the assistance of UNES- 
     
     CO. This is the real practical “two-way traffic”. UNESCO will help 
     
     A.C.W.W. in return for help received from them — both endeavour- 
     
     ing to build an “international highway to a better world”. It is a 
     
     long road and a big job, it needs both to carry it through. 
     
    

    
     _ _ In 1960 the Canadian National Commission for UNESCO 
     
     came into being, in line with eighty other member countries. The 
     
     Cabinet passed an Order-in-Council in June 1957, conferring on 
     
     the Canada Council responsibility for setting up a National Com- 
     
     mission for UNESCO. Thus is the UNESCO secretariat linked with 
     
     the government departments of Canada as well as with National 
     
     groups interested in educational, scientific and cultural matters, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     a world-wide programme results. 
     
    

    
     Recently the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada 
     
     applied for status of co—operating body with the Canadian National 
     
     Commission for UNESCO. In support of the application a memor- 
     
     andum was submitted. In part, it noted that the purposes of the 
     
     organization were “to provide Adult Education for rural women 
     
     and to promote world brotherhood through affiliation with AC.- 
     
     W.W., under the Standing Committee of United Nations and Inter- 
     
     national Exchange Programmes. It was indicated that the Federat- 
     
     ed Women’s Institutes of Canada was the link between Canadian 
     
     country women and international agencies and member societies 
     
    
   
   
    
     around the world. 
     
     Following this, the Federated Women’s Institutes has 
     
    
   
   
    
     been accepted as a co—operating body of the Canadian National 
     
     Commission for UNESCO and was represented at the first national 
     
     conference held in Montreal on March 12, 13th. 
     
    

    
     One of the principal items on the agenda was a consideration 
     
     of Canada’s participation in UNESCO projects, with the emphasis 
     
     on “Mutual appreciation of Eastern and Western Culture values.” 
     
     Prefacing the report of the advisory committee of this project 
     
     Were Mahatma Ghandi’s words —— “I do not want my house to be 
     
     walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed, I want the 
     
     cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. 
     
     But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any . . .” The proposed 
     
     project'is a long-term undertaking-a-ten-year scheme, to exchange 
     
     ideas and information between the Orient and the Occident — a 
     
     kind of “grass roots” effort to bring about mutual understanding 
     
     among peoples of the world. 
     
    
   
   
    
     UNESCO strives in all countries to coordinate the efforts 
     
     of all people who are working, officially or voluntarily, for the 
     
    
   
   
    
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