124 J.-A. PEMBERTON
As to the fate of the works not selected for public humiliation,
Portevin reports that eight thousand and one hundred and ninety were
burned in the courtyard of the fire station at Köpernick Strasse in Berlin,
while many others were sold at auctions in Lucerne on June 30, 1939,
with the returns on the sales assisting in the financing of a war-machine
that was soon to crank into action.^142
PeAceful cHAnge: genevA And london
Charles Rist was a member of the Institut de France and director of the
Institut scientifique de recherches économiques and sociales in Paris. A
member of the Special Advisory Committee which had been set up by
the board of Bank of International Settlements towards the end of 1931
in order to advise on Germany’s ability to meet its obligations under the
Young Plan, his support in the context of that committee for the view
that Germany could not transfer its conditional reparations (and proba-
bly even its unconditional reparations), when they fell due in the follow-
ing year was considered highly significant at the time.^143 In an address
during the closing meeting of the 1937 session of the ISC, Rist stated
that the City of Paris, while ‘always happy to welcome all schools of
thought,’ had been ‘particularly anxious to receive...[the ISC’s]...repre-
sentatives’ that year so as to ensure that the ‘success of the Exhibition’
was really ‘the success of all [the] nations’ which had ‘erected their pavil-
ions on the banks of the Seine’.^144 Rist’s statement suggests that the
organisers of the international exposition in Paris had been rather keen
to see the 1937 session of the ISC conclude in triumph and in light of
this it is of little wonder that the institution which served as the ISC’s
secretariat, namely, the IIIC had also been particularly anxious: it had
(^142) Portevin, ‘Purification Esthétique,’ 39. See also Fleckner, ‘In the Twilight of Power:
The Contradictions of Art Politics in National Socialist Germany,’ 261.
(^143) Walter Lippmann with the assistance of research staff of the Council on Foreign
Relations, United States in World Affairs: An Account of American Foreign Relations, 1932
(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1933), 19.
(^144) International Studies Conference, Peaceful Change: Procedures, Population, Raw
Materials, Colonies, 609–10. For the hospitality side of the conference on peaceful change
in Paris, see International Studies Conference (Tenth Session), Conférence permanente des
hautes études internationales: Généralities, 1929–1947, AG 1-IICI-K-I-3, UA.