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Invites the Institute to continue and extend the studies already undertaken on this
rw-f junction with the Berne International Bureau and the Borne International
Institute for the Unification of Private Law.
■3. The Committee,
. , nAf*er examining the report on the meeting of the institutions specialising in
intellectual rights and the report of the Executive Committee of the results of that meeting,
Approves the conclusions of both reports and asks the Institute to be guided bv them
so tar as it is concerned. j c *
20. Popular Arts.
The International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
a 4- h.earcl Reynold’s report on the International Committee on Popular
Popular^Arts^^ n°ted the Executive Comniittee’s resolution regarding the question of
Approves that resolution and calls the particular notice of the Assembly of the League
of Nations to the Exhibition of Popular Arts which it is proposed to hold at Berne in 1934
and begs it to urge the Governments of States Members of the League to undertake to
associate themselves with this great international manifestation, either by appointing
delegates to the Grand Committee of the Exhibition or by sending exhibits. Small credits
might be provided from now onwards in the budgets for 1932, 1933 and 1934.
It appoints M. de Beynold to be the representative of the International Committee
on Intellectual Co-operation on the Grand Committee of the Exhibition, and approves
the appointment of Mile. Vacaresco and M. Focillon and M. Ojetti as representatives of
t e Permanent Committee on Arts and Letters on this same Committee.
It notes with satisfaction M. de Beynold’s communication to the effect that the two
A o nines or the Records and Memoranda of the International Congress on Popular Arts at
Prague will be published in the course of next August and September.
It recommends that as wide a circulation as possible should be given to this publication.
21. Ibero-American Collection.
The International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation,
Having noted M. de Reynold’s report on the Ibero-American collection :1 2 3
(1) Accepts that report:
(2) ^PP0!11^8 M. de Beynold as its representative on the Publication Committee
oi the Ibero-American Collection ;
(3) Instructs the Institute to arrange with Les Belles-Lettres Company for the
printing on the title-page of each volume of the formula given in the report;
ii^^?e^0mm-e^S ^rail8lations into languages other than French
shall not be lost sight of and shall be given practical application as soon as circumstances
22. Utilisation of the Leisure Hours of Workers. 4
international Committee on Intellectual Co-operation has noted with keen
interest the enquiry undertaken by the International Labour Office with a view to
investigating and determining the possibilities which workers might be offered for improving
their spiritual and material conditions of life by devoting their leisure to general education
the popular arts, the educational cinematograph, sport, etc. :
Decides to accede to the request of the International Labour Office that the Institute
should co-operate in these investigations by studying the services which might be rendered
by popular libraries and the popular arts in this field ;
Approves the report of the Director of the Institute on this question and the method
adopted for carrying out this work. 5
2 3. Collaboration with the Chinese Government.
The International Committee on Intellectual Co-operafion,
Having noted with the greatest satisfaction the two requests from the Chinese
Government for the assistance of the Intellectual Co-operation Organisation in the work
of le-oiganismg public education in China and also in the development of intellectual
relations between China and the other States Members of the League of Nations ■
Having heard the report and the explanations of its Chairman on the steps already
taken or m contemplation with a view to carrying out the Chinese Government’s requests’;6
1 See document C.471.M.201.1931.XII, Appendix 12.
2 See Appendix 5, page 51.
3 See document C.471.M.201.1931.XII, Appendix 13.
4 Idem, Appendix 14.
6 See Appendix 4, pages 37 and 39.
6 See document C.471.M.201.1931.XII, Appendix 15.