Armament > Moral disarmament

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i. Intellectual Co-operation, Education and Technical Means of spreading
Information.
The Committee appointed to study these questions a Sub-Committee, which has held
several meetings and has examined memoranda received from the Organisation on Intellectual
Co-operation and the Rome International Educational Cinematographic Institute, and propo¬
sals submitted by several delegations.
Following on this enquiry, it proposed that the Commission should adopt as a basis of
discussion a draft text prepared by the Organisation on Intellectual Co-operation which it
had itself modified. This draft took into account the various proposals laid before the Com¬
mittee, and, when adopting it as a basis of discussion, the Committee was careful to make
every reservation concerning the final form which might be given to the text it was about
to draw up. This draft, which includes a Preamble and four chapters, contained suggestions
on the following points :
(1) Education of the younger generation ;
(2) Co-operation of the intellectual world ;
(3) Utilisation of technical means of spreading information ;
(4) Ways and means of giving effect to possible undertakings.
After a general discussion on the whole draft, the Committee suspended its enquiry
in order to allow its members to consult their Governments before they proceeded to examine
the matter in greater detail.
On resuming its labours, it discussed carefully and in detail each of the articles of the
draft at a first reading. Numerous amendments and improvements were made in the original
text, and a special Drafting Committee will bear these alterations in mind with a view to
preparing a new text which will, if necessary, be discussed at a second reading.
The Committee has now terminated this first stage of its work.
2. Co-operation of the Press in the Work of Moral Disarmament.
Following the same methods, the Committee also appointed a Sub-Committee to examine
a draft resolution submitted by the Polish Government concerning the assistance which the
Press might afford to the work of moral disarmament. Having accepted this draft resolution
as a basis of discussion, the Sub-Committee deemed it desirable to hear representatives of
international groups of journalists.
After this exchange of views, the Sub-Committee proceeded to prepare a preliminary
statement, which, as soon as it is ready, will be submitted to the Committee when the Conference
resumes its work.
3. Questions of a Legal Character.
At its first meetings, the attention of the Committee had been specially drawn to the
importance of questions of a juridical and constitutional nature which arise in connection
with the problem of moral disarmament.
In view of the complexity of these problems, the Committee appealed to the great expe¬
rience of M. Pella, delegate of Roumania, who was good enough to lay his knowledge unreser¬
vedly at the Committee’s disposal. A special Sub-Committee has been set up to examine a
comprehensive memorandum in which M. Pella has set out all the data and bases of discussion
necessary for a detailed study of the question. This study will be undertaken as soon as the
Conference resumes work.
THE COMMITTEE’S PROGRAMME OF WORK DURING THE SUSPENSION
OF THE WORK OF THE CONFERENCE.
In view of the stage at which the Committee has arrived in its work, the Committee
decided that, in order to facilitate the resumption of its labours, it would be desirable, while
the Conference was in adjournment, to instruct a Sub-Committee to conduct certain preparatory
enquiries. This Sub-Committee will meet at the time deemed to be most opportune, when
convened by its chairman. It will proceed to adapt the texts already examined at the first
reading, and will, mainly on the basis of the recent proposals put forward by the British and
American delegations, prepare suggestions as to the best form in which the Committee may
subsequently submit its recommendations to the Political Commission.