184 J.-A. PEMBERTON
told him that the ISC would be mentioned in the preface to the German
memoranda. He stated that this news had gladdened him as it meant that
it was now possible for the conference to ‘call attention to the extensive
work’ undertaken by the German colonial groups, which, he informed
Renvers, he would delicately describe in his report to the conference as
parallel studies.^341 Renvers quickly responded, telling Christophersen
that although a reference to the ISC would indeed be made in the pref-
ace, Berber had asked her to ‘to point out once more’ that the ‘German
memoranda can in no way be looked upon as memoranda of the
Conference nor for the Conference.’^342
In the event, three German memoranda were listed in the bibliogra-
phy appended to the proceedings of the conference, albeit not under the
heading of conference memoranda but under the heading documents
placed at the disposal of members of the conference.^343 Two of these
memoranda boasted prefaces by Berber. In these two prefaces, Berber
pointed out that German institutions had withdrawn from the ISC in
the autumn of 1933 on account of its administrative connection with
the League. Nonetheless, in these same prefaces, Berber acknowledged
the indirect and unofficial collaboration of German institutions with the
ISC, stating that the ISC’s work was of the ‘greatest interest to German
scientific research’. One of the memoranda for which Berber penned a
preface, concerned the breakdown of the Treaty of Versailles. Called Der
Zerfall des Versailler Vertrages, this memorandum was published by the
Deutsche Hochschule für Politik. The other memorandum for which
Berber penned a preface, was comprised of a series of studies by several
different authors on aspects of the German colonial question. Called
Beiträge zur Deutschen Kolonialfrage, this particular memorandum was
published by the German Institute for Foreign Policy Research.^344
(^341) League of Nations, International Institute of International Co-operation, The
International Studies Conference: Origins Functions Organisation, 56, and Christophersen
to Renvers, 17 February 1937, Conférence des hautes études internationales: Groupe
international d’études pour les questions coloniales, du 1er janvier 1937 au1er avril 1938,
AG-IICI-K-I-18.e, UA. See also International Studies Conference, Peaceful Change:
Procedures, Population, Raw Materials, Colonies, 170n.
(^342) Renvers to Christophersen, 22 February 1937, AG 1-IICI-K-I-18.e, UA.
(^343) International Studies Conference, Peaceful Change: Procedures, Population, Raw
Materials, Colonies, 642–43.
(^344) Ibid., 170–71n., 643.