Armament > Moral disarmament

Official No. : Coni* D. 98.
Geneva, February 24th, 1932.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
CONFERENCE FOR THE REDUCTION AND LIMITATION
OF ARMAMENTS
MORAL DISARMAMENT
Documentary Material forwarded by the International
Organisation on Intellectual Co-operation.
Note by the Secretary-General.
At the request of the President of the International Committee on Intellectual Co¬
operation, and with the approval of the President of the Conference for the Reduction and
Limitation of Armaments, the Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the delegates
to the Conference the following documents :
I. Letter from Professor Gilbert Murray, President of the International
Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
II. Annexes :
(a) Note on Intellectual Co-operation and Moral Disarmament ;
(b) Memorandum on the Organisation and Working of Intellectual Co¬
operation from the point of view of Moral Disarmament.
I. LETTER FROM PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY, PRESIDENT
OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON INTELLECTUAL CO-OPERATION.
Dear Mr. Henderson,
January 19th, 1932.
In response to the letter of the Polish Government on “ Moral Disarmament ”, I beg
to enclose a statement of those activities of the I.C.I.C. 1 which are concerned, directly
or indirectly, with that object.
The Committee, to quote one of its own documents, regards international co-operation
as the normal method of world government and of human progress, and has in all its
activities a twofold purpose : first, the advance of knowledge and the maintenance of
intellectual standards, and, secondly, the increase of mutual understanding and good will
between nations. Both these objects, as we understand them, require regular practice
of international co-operation in the fields of science, art and letters. For example, if we
try to organise co-operation between museums or libraries in different nations, our object
is both to make each institution more practically useful, and also to encourage students
and researchers in each country to look confidently to their colleagues in other countries
for friendly aid. In the work of the International Committee of Experts on “ Instruction
in the Aims of the League ”, or in the regular Conferences of the various National Institutes
for the scientific study of international politics, this double object is attained even more
clearly.
1 International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
Series of League of Nations Publications
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1932. IX. 24
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