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Official No.: CORlf. D. 138
[Conf. D./C.D.M.24.]
Geneva, July 25th, 1932.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Conference for the Reduction and Limitation
of Armaments
MORAL DISARMAMENT
Note by the Secretary-General:
In accordance with the request of the President of the Conference, the Secretary-General
has the honour to communicate to the delegations of the Conference a letter, dated July 20th,
from M. Perrier, President of the Committee for Moral Disarmament, and the report of the
Committee annexed to it.
I. LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE.
Geneva, July 20th, 1932.
I have the honour to send you herewith the report of the Committee for Moral Disar¬
mament indicating the state of its labours at the end of the first session of the Conference.
On behalf of the Committee, I am expressing the hope that you will be good enough,
after having taken note of the report and provided you see no objection thereto, to have it
distributed to the delegations at the Conference.
{Signed) Perrier,
President of the Committee for Moral Disarmament.
II. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MORAL DISARMAMENT AT THE END OF THE
FIRST SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE FOR THE REDUCTION AND LIMITATION
OF ARMAMENTS.
At its meeting on March 15th, 1932, the Political Commission of the Disarmament Confer¬
ence, mainly in the light of the proposals submitted by the Polish Government in its memoranda
dated September 23rd, 1931, February 13th and March 15th, 1932, and recognising the obvious
connection which exists between material and moral disarmament, set up a Committee to study
the various aspects of this question. Under the presidency of M. Perrier (delegate of Switzerland)
and with the assistance of M. Szumlakowski (Poland), as Rapporteur, and M. Komarnicki
(Poland), his substitute, this Committee endeavoured first of all to define the various fields
it should explore.
For this purpose, it instructed a Sub-Committee to prepare the agenda of its work, taking
into account the suggestions put forward by certain delegations, and a communication
addressed by the President of the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation to the President
of the Disarmament Conference.
Having approved the proposals of its Sub-Committee, the Committee for Moral Disarma¬
ment established its agenda as follows, and grouped under three headings the various categories
of questions which, it felt, ought to be examined :
1. Questions concerning intellectual co-operation and technical means of spreading
information, including the problems of education, utilisation of cinematography and
broadcasting ;
2. Questions concerning the co-operation of the Press ;
3. Questions of a legal character.
In the following paragraphs, an account is given, with regard to each of these groups
of questions, of the work which the Committee has already accomplished, the provisional
conclusions at which it has arrived, and the programme of the work it proposes to carry out
subsequently.
Series of League of Nations Publications
IX. DISARMAMENT
1932. IX. 52.
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