From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 11 22:24:21 2024
This day in 1946, the United Nations International Children's Emergency
Fund was founded. It became a permanent agency of the UN in 1953.
Possibly it was at this point that they dropped the words
"International" and "Emergency", while keeping the nicely pronounceable acronym. I guess "International" is redundant in the context of the UN;
and "Emergency" is incompatible with "permanent" -- or is it that we are
in a permanent state of emergency? And why keep "International" in the
name of the Day?