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of staff of the association, had come to Geneva at different points in time
during the GRC’s period of transformation in order to assume charge of
its publications. It should be noted that Buell, whom some credited with
writing the first text book in the field of international relations, namely,
International Relations (1925), was also among those who attended the
Yale Club meeting in New York on February 22, 1925, to consider the
plan for the conference that would establish the IPR.^151 While touring
with Whitton, Buell gave addresses before organisations consecrated
to the study of international problems in such cities as Copenhagen,
London, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna as well as making several radio
addresses for the benefit of American audiences.^152 As a consequence of
their efforts, Whitton recorded, the GRC managed to establish

excellent relations with a number of outstanding organizations, nota-

bly, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the New Commonwealth

Society, Centre de Étude de Politique Entrangère, the Hamburg

Institute of International Studies, the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute at Berlin,

the Institute of Economics and History in Copenhagen, the Konsular

Academy in Vienna, the Michelson Institute at Bergen, and at Oslo, the

Nobel Institute and the Institute for Comparative Research in Human

Cultures.^153

Indeed, so close became the links established between the GRC
and the various European-based institutions with which Whitton had
acquainted himself upon arriving on the continent, that certain members
of these institutions were co-opted to the newly established governing
board of the GRC. More generally, the co-option of Europeans to the
GRC’s governing board was a function of the fact that the GRC was
now an international rather than American research centre. Among the

(^151) Institute of Pacific Relations, Institute of Pacific Relations: Honolulu Session June 30
to July 14, 1925: History, Organization, Proceedings, Discussions and Addresses (Honolulu:
Institute of Pacific Relations, 1925), 19–21.
(^152) Geneva Research Centre, Report by the Director to the Governing Board, December
14, 1936, AG 1-IICI-K-V-3, UA. See also Raymond Leslie Buell, International Relations
(New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1925), and Institute of Pacific Relations, Institute of
Pacific Relations: Honolulu Session June 30 to July 14, 1925, 19–20.
(^153) Geneva Research Centre, Report by the Director to the Governing Board, December
14, 1936, AG 1-IICI-K-V-3, UA. See also Geneva Research Centre: Study, January 22,
1937, AG 1-IICI-K-V-3, UA.