International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
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The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, sometimes League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, is an advisory organisation for the League of Nations which promotes international exchange between scientists, researchers, teachers, artists and intellectuals.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Established in 1922, it counted such figures as Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Nitobe Inazo, Marie Curie, Gonzague de Reynold, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, and Robert A. Millikan among its members.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn
The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (Geneva)
The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICICIC), formally established in August 1922.Template:Sfn Having started out with 12 members, its membership later grew to 19 individuals, mostly from Western Europe.Template:Sfn The first session was held on August 1, 1922, under the chairmanship of Henri Bergson. During its lifetime, the committee attracted a variety of prominent members, for instance Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Kristine Bonnevie, Jules Destrée, Robert Andrews Millikan, Alfredo Rocco, Paul Painlevé, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Gonzague de Reynold, Jagadish Chandra Bose and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Einstein resigned in 1923, protesting publicly the committee's inefficacy; he rejoined in 1924 to mitigate the use German chauvinists made of his resignation.[2] The body was successively chaired by:
- Henri Bergson (1922–1925)
- Hendrik Lorentz (1925–1928)
- Gilbert Murray (1928–1939).
The ICIC maintains a number of sub-committees (e.g. Museums, Arts and Letters, Intellectual Rights or Bibliography) which also work with figures such as Béla Bartók, Thomas Mann, Salvador de Madariaga and Paul Valéry.
The ICIC works closely with the International Educational Cinematographic Institute created in Rome in 1928 by the Italian government under Mussolini.[3]
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ICIC Plenary session (date unknown, between 1924 and 1927).
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Henri Bergson (ICIC president) to Inazo Nitobe (International Bureaux Section director), 1924.[4]
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ICIC Plenary session 1939.
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The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (Paris)
To support the work of the commission in Geneva, the organization was offered assistance from France to establish an executive branch, the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (IIIC), in Paris in 1926.[5] However, the IIIC had an autonomous status and was almost only financed by the French government, giving it a certain independence that created tensions with the League of Nations.Template:Sfn It maintained relations with the league's member states, which established national commissions for intellectual cooperation and appointed delegates to represent their interests at the institute in Paris. While being an international organisation, each of the IIIC's three successive directors was French:
- Julien Luchaire (1926–1930)
- Henri Bonnet (1931–1940)
- Jean-Jacques Mayoux (1945–1946)
From 1926 to 1930, Alfred Zimmern – the well-known British classicist and a pioneering figure in the discipline of international relations – served as the IIIC's deputy director.
As a result of the Second World War, the institute was closed from 1940 to 1944. It re-opened briefly from 1945 to 1946. When it closed for good in 1946, UNESCO inherited its archives and some parts of its mission.[6]Template:Sfn
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Notes
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- ↑ League of Nations archives, United Nations Office in Geneva. With a network Visualization of the ICIC archives, showing thousands of documents exchanged between the plenary committee, its secretary, national commissions and experts. Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". (PDF), Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions (New York: Bonanza/Crown, 1954), p. 84.
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- ↑ LoN archives 1924, United Nations Offices in Geneva. Picture from this collection.
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External links
- Research Guide on Intellectual Cooperation by UN Archives Geneva.
- Intellectual Cooperation and International Bureaux Section at UN Archives Geneva.