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Problem of Peaceful Change and in French under the heading of La com-
merce internationale et la paix, Condliffe’s memorandum was the first in
the series of four expert studies to be published.^18 The prospect of its
publication, however, did not enthuse Condliffe who wrote to Gross in
December 1937 in order to tell him the following:
I am not happy about the printing of my memoranda which does not really
warrant the expenditure, particularly of a double publication in two languages.
I should have withheld my consent to its publication if I had not thought it
was part of a series. The French title...is I think accurate. If there were a way
of not publishing this memoranda at this late date, I should be glad to find it;
but if the publication must go on, I am glad to accept the French title.^19Condliffe’s second thoughts in regard to the publication of his memo-
randum, which was issued by the IIIC in the name of the ISC, perhaps
reflected the fact that the quality of the debates at the conference in Paris
had not impressed him at all.^20 In fact, Condliffe told Kittredge that
because he had been so little impressed by the quality of the debates in
Paris he had chosen not to participate in them. Echoing the American
critics of the conference, Condliffe told Kittredge that recent conferences
were less noted for ‘discussion of the results of research’ than for their
‘political aspects’ and that he had the feeling at Paris that members of
the conference had been ‘unable to think of themselves as individuals
and scientists, but were exercising unwarranted diplomacy as members
of national groups.’^21 Condliffe also told Kittredge that if the conference
were to have ‘any future use,’ it must make a determined effort to elimi-
nate the political aspects and discuss ‘basic problems in a scientific spirit’
and he urged to this end that the conference should in future rigorously
exclude not only politicians and administrators, but all ‘those academic
and lay people who act as if they felt themselves to be diplomats’.^22
Condliffe expressed the view that the tendency of the conference ‘to
take itself far too seriously as it were a plenipotentiary body, instead of
(^18) Condliffe, Markets and the Problem of Peaceful Change, 3.
(^19) Condliffe to Gross, 10 December 1937, Conférence permanente des hautes études
internationales: Comité exécutif, à partir de 1er septembre, 1937 à décembre 1946,
AG-IICI-K-I-2, UA, and Condliffe, Markets and the Problem of Peaceful Change, 3.
(^20) Condliffe, Markets and the Problem of Peaceful Change, 3.
(^21) Condliffe to Kittredge, 18 September 1937, AG-IICI-K-I-4.b, UA.
(^22) Ibid.