Folklore is an everyday event in Yugoslavia

Drawing on the wealth of their individual cultures and traditions, the peoples of Yugoslavia are today making a determined effort to develop the educational, scientific and cultural resources of their country.

Each of Yugoslavia's six federated republics, for example, organizes its primary, technical and higher schools, its academy of arts and sciences, and its research laboratories, which, while fostering the culture of the people they serve, are designed to meet the social and economic needs of modern life.

This cultural decentralization, which is co-ordinated by the Council for Science and Culture of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, has been accompanied by a series of measures to make education generally available for the bulk of the people, and to provide generous financial allowances for the development of cultural institutions.

When M. Jaime Torres Bodet, Director-General of Unesco, visited the cities of Belgrade, Ljubljana and Zagreb recently as the guest of the Yugoslav Government, he was able to measure the extent of these efforts and appreciate the practical results of the constructive collaboration between Yugoslavia and Unesco.

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