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AT the Third General Conference of Unesco now being held in Beirut, M. Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican Foreign Minister, has been elected director general in succession to Dr. Julian Huxley, who has held office since the inception of Unesco two years ago. M. Bodet, who is forty-six years of age, was head of the library department of the Mexican Ministry of Education during 1922-24. From 1924 until 1928, he was professor of French literature in the University of Mexico. In 1929 he entered the Foreign Service and successively held positions in Mexican legations in Spain, Holland and France. During 1936-37 he was director of the Diplomatic Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the following two years he spent as charg6 d'affaires in Brussels. From 1940 until 1943 he was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, after which he was appointed Minister of Education. In this capacity he conducted a campaign against illiteracy, founded circulating libraries, organised a system, of rural education, and devoted his whole time to the orientation and administration of education in Mexico.
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UNESCO : New Director General. Nature 162, 882 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162882d0
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