International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation

Abstract

THE report by Prof. G. de Reynold on the Work of the twentieth plenary session of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations (Geneva: League of Nations. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. C.253.M.150.1938.XII) indicates the services to intellectual life which this organization is rendering both directly and indirectly. Its influence on the teaching of the principles and facts of international co-operation, the revision of school text-books, the investigation of unemployment among university graduates, its studies on the rights of the scientific worker and the inventor and on the contract of publication, the International Studies Conference and the agreement with the International Council of Scientific Unions are briefly indicated by Prof, de Reynold, as well as its relations with the International Labour Office and the International Museums Office. Prof, de Reynold stresses the importance of the National Committees of Intellectual Co-operation and of the efforts of the organization to keep in touch with and respect al forms of culture, and of utilizing the most modern means of disseminating information. Resolutions adopted by the Committee at its meeting on July 16 are included, and among the appendixes are reports of the Advisory Committee on the teaching of the principles and facts of international co-operation, on the teaching of modern languages as a means of promoting mutual understanding between nations; of the Acting Secretary-General of the Rome International Institute for the Unification of Private Law on the work of the Institute in the field of intellectual rights and of the Advisory Committee on Professional Workers.