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The Publications Department will supply on request copies ol publication C.I.C.I. 461, wMeh contains a list ol National Committees on Intellectual Co-operation and gives a summary of t) activity. Price : 3/6 $0.60 [Communicated to the Council and the Members of the League.] Official N o.: C. 530. M. 369. *937- X II. Geneva, January 1938. LEAGUE OF NATIONS PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND GENERAL CONFERENCE OF NATIONAL COMMITTEES ON INTELLECTUAL CO OPERATION Paris, July 5fh-9ih, 1937 Series of League of Nations Publications XII.A. INTERNATIONAL BUREAUX 1937. XILA. 4. CONTENTS. Page 1. P r e fa c e ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 2. List of D e l e g a t e s ........................................................................................................................................... 7 3. Ag e n d a ................................................................................................................................................................. 12 4. R eports submitted to the Co n f e r e n c e ............................................................................................... 13 5. Extracts from the Minutes of the Conference : First Meeting, Monday, July 5th, 1937, at 10.30 a.m. : Opening Speech by Professor Gilbert Murray, President : ........................................................ 60 Speech by M. Pilotti, Deputy Secretary-General of the League of N a tio n s ............................ 62 Speech by M. Yvon Delbos, French Minister for Foreign Affairs................................................ 62 Appointment of V ic e -P r e sid e n ts......................................................................................................... 63 Constitution of the Bureau of the Conference................................................................................... 64 Adoption of Rules of Procedure............................................................................................................. 64 Adoption of the A g en d a ................................................ 64 Submission of the Report of M. Focillon (General R apporteur)........................................... 64 Second Meeting, Monday, July 5th, 1937, at 3.30 p.m ........................................................................... 64 Third Meeting, Tuesday, July 6th, 1937, at 10 a.m ................................................................................... 67 Fourth Meeting, Tuesday, July 6th, 1937, at 3.30 p.m.............................................................................. 69 Fifth Meeting, Wednesday, July 7th, 1937, at 10 a.m .............................................................................. 70 Sixth Meeting, Wednesday, July 7th, 1937, at 3.30 p.m .......................................................................... 73 Seventh Meeting, Thursday, July 8th, 1937, at 10.30 a.m....................................................................... 75 Eighth Meeting, Thursday, July 8th, 1937, at 3.30 p.m........................................................................... 79 Ninth Meeting, Friday, July 9th, 1937, at 10 a.m. : Discussion of the Report and Resolutions submitted to the Conference..................... 80 Closing Speech by M. Edouard H e r r io t ............................................................................................. 83 6. General R eport, R esolutions and R ecommendations . ......................................................... 85 Annex I. — Provisional List of Obstacles to Intellectual Co-operation............................................ 91 Annex II. — Function of the Organisation for Intellectual Co-operation in the Sphere of the Exact and Natural Sciences : Report by Professor A. R o h n ..................................................................................................... 92 3.362 — S.d.N. - 1.505 (F .) 1.130 (A) 1/38 Imp. Vitte, Lyon. i. PREFACE. National committees on intellectual co-operation were formed, between the years 1922 and 1937, in the following countries : Union of South Africa, Argentine Republic, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Mexico, Netherlands and the Netherlands Indies, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Salvador, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, United States of America, Uruguay, Yugoslavia. Furthermore, the Catholic Union of International Studies and the Inter-Parliamentary Union created committees on intellectual co-operation, thus bringing the total number of these bodies up to forty-eight. Their object is to serve as a link between the International Committee on the one hand, and the intellectual life of the different countries on the other. They are essential to intellectual co-operation, which they represent to-day in its national form. Thus, both the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation, which is an advisory organ of the Council and the Assembly, and the Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, which is an executive organ of the Committee, depend to a large extent on the constant assistance of the national committees. In the first year of its existence, the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation invited the national committees to send representatives to each of its annual sessions. The growth in the number of those committees, however, made it increasingly difficult to pursue this policy. In 1929, the League of Nations accordingly convened the First General Conference of National Committees. This meeting was mainly devoted to hearing the national reports presented by the several delegations on the activities of the committees which they represented. From 1929 to 1937, no further general meeting was held, but the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation invited each year delegates of five national committees to follow its work. When it. was known that an International Exhibition of Art and Technique in Modern Life was to be held in Paris in 1937, the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation in 1934 considered the question of convening a second general conference at the Institute of Intellectual Co-operation. On being consulted as to the desirability of such a meeting, the national committees expressed warm approval. Thus encouraged, the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation decided in 1935 to convene the Conference, and in 1936 appointed Professor Gilbert Mu r r a y as its President. The questions to be studied were entrusted to five General Rapporteurs : M. Henri F o c illo n , Professor of the History of Art at the Sorbonne, member of the Permanent Committee on Arts and Letters ; His Excellency Senator Balbino G iu lia n o , Chairman of the Italian National Committee ; His Excellency M. Peter Mu nch , Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Chairman of the Danish National Committee ; M. H u iz in g a , member of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science (Division of Letters) ; M. de Reynold, member of the International Committee on Intellectual