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(3) General Aspects of the Problem of the Cinematograph.
The Committee considers that a general programme should gradually be drawn up covering
all the activities of the Intellectual Co-operation Organisationinthesphereof the cinematograph.
The Committee proposes to undertake the study of this problem by stages and to ask for
all useful assistance for this purpose.
As regards, more particularly, the educational aspects of the cinematograph, the Committee
attaches very great importance to the results of the International Congress on Education by
the Cinematograph, which is being organised by the International Educational Cinematographic
Institute, in concert with the Intellectual Co-operation Organisation, and is to be held at
Rome in April 1934. It is convinced that this Congress will be able to extend the field of
studies already in progress in a very opportune manner.
It recommends the appointment of a Preparatory Committee to prepare the Congress’s
work on this matter. This Committee would consist of representatives of the Secretariat
of the Intellectual Co-operation Organisation, of the Information Section of the League
Secretariat, of the International Labour Office and of the International Institute of Intellectual
Co-operation.
Lastly, it expresses the hope that the Congress’s conclusions will be dealt with in a special
report. This report will appear on the agenda of the Intellectual Co-operation Committee
at its next session.
(4) Subsequent Procedure.
Finally, the Committee requests the Executive Committee to supervise the carrying out
of this programme, to examine, in particular, the results which will certainly be achieved at
the meeting of the Committee of Representatives of the Film Industry, and to consider what
action should be taken on their proposals.
As regards the preparations for the International Congress on Education by the
Cinematograph, the Executive Committee will take whatever decisions it may deem to be
necessary on the basis of the data with which the above-mentioned Preparatory Committee
will supply it as its work progresses.
20. Universal Adoption of Roman Characters.
The International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation expresses its appreciation
for the study undertaken by the Institute on the question of the universal adoption of roman
characters,1 and requests the Director so to continue the work that the result of the
investigation may be likely to be of special service to countries where the question is of
particular importance.
Appendix 2.
MORAL DISARMAMENT.
Letter from Professor Gilbert Murray, Chairman of the International Committee
on Intellectual Co-operation, to M. Komarnicki, Rapporteur to the Moral
Disarmament Committee of the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation
of Armaments.
Geneva, July 22nd, 1933.
The International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation has followed with constant
interest the work of the Committee on Moral Disarmament of the Conference for the Reduction
and Limitation of Armaments. It is gratified to note that the Secretariat of the Organisation
and the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation are collaborating in the studies
undertaken by that Committee. It will be happy to do its utmost in future to facilitate the
carrying out of the proposed work.
It therefore noted with the keenest interest, in the course of its present session, the new
draft texts which you propose to submit to the Committee on Moral Disarmament, dealing, in
particular, with education, the collaboration of Government departments and intellectual
circles in the work of moral disarmament, the utilisation of technical means of spreading ideas,
etc. Those questions have also had the attention of the Committee, some having been
included in its agenda for several years past. It was thus led to draw up a draft text based
on various suggestions submitted to it. In framing this draft, the Committee had no intention
whatever of recommending new bases of discussion to the Government representatives. It
simply thought that it might possibly be able to add useful material to the data at their
disposal.
I have accordingly the honour to send you herewith the draft prepared by the Committee,
which is, however, incomplete, and I leave it to you to take such action as you may think fit
in the matter.
(Signed) Gilbert Murray,
Chairman of the International Committee on
Intellectual Co-operation.
1 See Institute document A.2.1933.