136 J.-A. PEMBERTON
Studii Internaƫionale (Centre des hautes études internationales or Centre
for Advanced International Studies). Upon the creation of the centre
in December 1936, Chalmers Wright became its director. Presumably
because he was the president of the institution to which it belonged,
namely, the Institutul Social Român (Romanian Social Institute), Gusti
acquired the additional title of president of the Centrul de Înalte Studii
Internaƫionale and it was in his role as president of that centre that he
attended the Paris conference in 1937.^176
That Chalmers Wright did not join Gusti in representing the Centrul
de Înalte Studii Internaƫionale at the ninth session of the ISC, may per-
haps be partly attributed to the misgivings he had about the organi-
sation of the conference, its programme and the quality of the debate
that would ensue following the conference’s inauguration. On February
21, 1937, he sent a letter to Gross in which he repeated criticisms he
had made a few weeks earlier concerning Gross’s proposal to equip
the conference with an advisory research committee which, according
to Chalmers Wright, would be composed of ‘a rock-bottom minimum
of eleven vocal participants’ and which would include ‘“the General
(^176) Chalmers Wright to Oliver Jackson, 27 March 1937, AG 1-IICI-K-I-15.e, UA,
and the International Studies Conference, Peaceful Change: Procedures, Population, Raw
Materials, Colonies, 624. On the creation of the Centrul de înalte Studii Internaƫionale, see
the observation of Georges Sofronie, in Alfred E. Zimmern, ed., The University Teaching
of International Relations: A Record of the Eleventh Session of the International Studies
Conference, Prague, 1938 (Paris: International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, 1939),
- See also D. Gusti (president) and G. Vladesco Rocoassa [Gheorge Vlădescu-Răcoasa]
(secretary) to the director of the IICI [Henri Bonnet], 21 October 1930, AG 1-IICI-K-II-
2.a, UA, and D. Gusti to Bonnet, 20 May 1931, Conférence des Institutions pour l’étude
scientifique des relations internationales, 1931 (avant la Conférence), AG 1-IICI-K-I-1.b.
Note that the Institutul Social Român had earlier been the base for the Romanian Centre
of International Studies of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. For Chalmers
Wright’s later observations on his work in Bucharest, see Chalmers-Wright, Fergus
Camille Yeatman (Oral History), Imperial War Museum (production company), Laurie
Milner (recorder), Chalmers- Wright, Fergus Camille Yeatman (interviewee/speaker),
no. 1, 1984–1985, Imperial War Museum, Sound Archive, Catalogue no. 8188. See also
International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation: League of Nations, The International
Studies Conference: Origins Functions Organisation, 48. The official stationery used by
Chalmers Wright in correspondence in his role as director for the years 1936 and 1937 of
the Centrul de Inalte Studii Internaƫionale gave the name of the centre in French: Centre
des hautes études internationales. However, in the booklet Chalmers Wright complied on
the origins of the ISC the centre’s name was given exactly as follows: ‘Centrul de Inalte
Studii Internationale.’