130 J.-A. PEMBERTON
GRC’s research into questions concerning the distribution of raw materi-
als and treaty revision was well underway.^157
Among those attending the ‘Conference on Solutions’ in their capac-
ity as members of the governing board of the GRC were Bourquin, who
had been elected president of the board, Bonnet, Dennery, Lorwin, May,
Puffer Morgan, Rappard, Whitton and Arthur Sweetser.^158
Sweetser, an American citizen, had served as a press officer of the
American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Paris in 1919, following
which he joined the LON Secretariat’s Information Section where he
acted as a point of liaison between the LON and the United States and
of which he would later become deputy director. Like Lorwin, he had
attended the Yosemite conference of the IPR, in his case as an observer
on behalf of the Information Section. A confidant of Drummond,
Sweetser was the person to whom Morley had dedicated his Society of
Nations the foreword for which had been written by Drummond in his
role as secretary general.^159 Aside from Sweetser, five other members
of the LON Secretariat participated in the conference: Vito Catastini,
the director of the secretariat’s Mandates Section; Condliffe, who
as we saw was a member of the Financial Section; Alexander Loveday,
the director since 1931 of the Financial Section and of the Economic
Intelligence Service which was attached to that section; the Jean-Daniel
de Montenach, a member of the Intellectual Cooperation Section of the
secretariat and the secretary of the ICO; and Pietro Stoppani, a non-
Fascist Italian who was director of the Economic Relations Section from
1931 until October 1939.^160
(^157) Geneva Research Centre: Study, January 22, 1937, AG 1-IICI-K-V-3, UA.
(^158) Ibid.; Persons Participating in the Conference on Solutions, May 21 and 22, 1937,
AG 1-IICI-K-I-16.a, UA; and International Studies Conference, Peaceful Change:
Procedures, Population, Raw Materials, Colonies, 8.
(^159) For Arthur Sweetser, see Annique H. M. van Ginnekin, Historical Dictionary of the
League of Nations (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006), 181–82; Frank Moorehouse,
Grand Days (Sydney: Pan Macmillan, Sydney), 568; Frank Moorehouse, Dark Palace
(Sydney: Random House, 2000), 674–75; Morley, Society of Nations, 8; and Potter,
‘League Publicity: Cause or Effect of League Failure?,’ 399n. See also Holland and
Mitchell, eds., Problems of the Pacific, 1936 , 440.
(^160) Geneva Research Centre: Study, January 22, 1937, AG 1-IICI-K-V-3, UA; Persons
Participating in the Conference on Solutions, May 21 and 22, 1937, AG 1-IICI- K-I-
16.a; and International Studies Conference, Peaceful Change: Procedures, Population, Raw
Materials, Colonies, 8.