International > Proceedings of the second General conference of national committees on intellectual co-operation, Paris, July 5th-9th, 1937

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6. GENERAL REPORT, RESOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
The Second General Conference of the National Committees on Intellectual Co-operation was
held in Paris at the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation from July 5th to July 9th,
under the chairmanship of Professor Gilbert Murray, President of the International Committee
The representatives of the national committees took part as full members m the work of
The representatives of the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation of the Catholic Union
of International Studies and the Permanent Inter-Parliamentary Committee on Intellectual
Relations also took part in the Conference in a similar capacity. , - 1.
There were nine plenary sessions, in the course of which the Conference discussed the following
reports appearing on its Agenda :
I Work of the Intellectual Co-operation Organisation of the League
of Nations from 1931 to 1937.
General Rapporteur : M. Henri Focillon, Member of the Permanent Committee on Arts
and Letters, Professor of the History of Art at Paris University.
II. Organisation and Activities of the National Committees
on Intellectual Co-operation.
General Rapporteur : His Excellency Senator Balbino Giuliano, Chairman of the Italian
National Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
A. Inter-American Intellectual Co-operation.
Rapporteur : M. Miguel Ozorio de Almeida, Chairman of the Brazilian National Committee
on Intellectual Co-operation.
B. Intellectual Co-operation between America and Europe.
Rapporteur : M. A. A'ita, Secretary-General of the Argentine National Committee on
Intellectual Co-operation.
C. Part played by National Committees in making known in their own countries the Activities of
the Intellectual Co-operation Organisation.
Rapporteur : M. Li Yu Ying, President of the Peiping National Academy, Member of the
Executive Committee of the Chinese National Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
D. Intellectual Co-operation and Mutual Knowledge of National Cultures.
Report presented by the Japanese National Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
E. Regional Intellectual Co-operation.
(a) Inter-Baltic Intellectual Co-operation. — Rapporteur : Rector Roemeris, Chairman of
the Lithuanian National Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
(b) Inter-Balkan Intellectual Co-operation. — Rapporteur : M. G. Tzitzeica, Chairman of
the Roumanian National Committee.
F. Special Position of National Committees in young and outlying countries.
Rapporteur : Mr. Kenneth Binns, Australian National Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
(The report was submitted by Sir Robert Garan.)
G. Function of National Committees as a Factor in National Intellectual Life.
Rapporteur : M. Karol Lutostanski, Chairman of the Polish National Committee on
Intellectual Co-operation.
III. Structure of the Intellectual Co-operation Organisation.
General Rapporteur : Dr. Peter Munch, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the Danish
Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
IV. Function of Intellectual Co-operation in the Organisation
of the Contemporary World.
General Rapporteur : M. J. Huizinga, President o
and M. G. de Reynold, Professor at the University of
Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
f the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science,
Fribourg, both members of the International