The International Mind

Abstract

IN a recent article entitled “The International Mind” (NATURE, Sept. 30) dealing with the work of the League of Nations in the field of international intellectual co-operation, it was suggested that the League should concentrate mainly on education and the Press, and that, in regard to the many other forms of co-operation in science, art, letters, politics, etc., it should content itself in the main with collecting data on the present position. A correspondent has pointed out that a compendium of information on this latter sphere of activity has in fact been issued by the League of Nations, in its “Handbook of International Organisations”, and in its quarterly bulletins on the same subject, published by Messrs. Alien and Unwin, Ltd. The “Handbook” for 1929 is priced at 10., and runs to 348 pages. Moreover, the League of Nations, as a complete list of its publications further indicates, has by no means overlooked the power of the Press, as a cultural or intellectual factor. A conference of “Press Experts” was held in 1927; also a European Conference on Transport of Newspapers; and its publicity methods are described in a pamphlet on “The League of Nations and the Press” published in connexion with the International Press Exhibition, Cologne, 1928.