Intellectual Cooperation

THE LEAGUE

Intellectual Cooperation

At Geneva met a commission of the League of Nations to draw up rules of procedure for an Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, which is soon to be opened at Paris. Professor Sir Gilbert Murray, in the absence of M. Bergson, ill, was in the chair. Among those present: Senator Henri de Jouvenal (France), Dr. Vernon Kellogg of the National Research Council (U. S.), Prof. Albert Einstein (Germany), Senator Ruffini (Italy), Prof. Gonzague de Reynold (Switzerland), M. Destree (Belgium), Dr. Casares (Spain), Prof. de Halecki (Poland), ex-Premier Buero (Uruguay), Dr. Gastro (Brazil).

On the nomination of Prof. Einstein, Prof. Schultze-Gavernitz of Freiburg University, Baden, was appointed Chief of the Secton of Sciences at the Institute. He thus became the first German to hold a position under the League. A number of other appointments were made.

The Commission then studied the problem of rectifying errors in text books, which were alleged to be a mainspring of racial prejudices. A resolution, subsequently passed, empowered the Institute to call the attention of any country to such errors.

So impressed was Dr. Kellogg with the work of the Commission that he declared it "practical minded, and worthy of America's most enthusiastic cooperation and support."