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and liberalism should be ‘disassociated’ drew the ire of Bouglé, who, it
should be noted, would play a key role in assisting scholars fleeing the new
Germany.^25
The meeting in Paris established what Condliffe called a ‘minimum
programme’ of research: it requested that the national groups undertake
a ‘careful analysis’ of the commercial policies of their respective states
through separating out the domestic economic, social and political fac-
tors and external pressures which drove such policies and which deter-
mined their mode of operation.^26 A further meeting of the programme
committee was held on January 14, 1938, in Paris, a meeting that was
augmented by the presence of Kittredge and observers on behalf of the
national committees of Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Romania, Poland and
Yugoslavia. On this occasion, there was no Italian representation, how-
ever, Germany was represented in the form of Berber who would also
attend on January 15 a meeting of the ISC’s executive committee of
which Davis was the chair.^27
The executive committee meeting heard that the Rockefeller
Foundation had decided to extend the funding of the ISC and that it
had voted to the IIIC the generous sum of 100,000 dollars for the years
1938–1939. This sum was intended to cover the costs of the confer-
ence’s secretariat, to fund the work of the various national groups and
to ensure that the study conference’s next general rapporteur was able
to carry out the reforms to the conference that Condliffe and others had
recommended.^28


(^25) International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, ed., League of Nations, Sixth
International Studies Conference: A Record of a Second Study Conference of the State and
Economic Life, Held in London, May 29 to June 2, 1933, 193.
(^26) League of Nations, International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, 1938 , 24,
and International Studies Conference: Report by the General Rapporteur Professor J.
B. Condliffe on the Meetings on Economic Policies in Relation to World Peace at the
Eleventh Session of the Conference, Prague, May 23–27, 1938, XIth Session, Prague,
1938, Report by Professor Condliffe on the meetings, AG IICI-K-XI-22.
(^27) Coopération Intellectuelle, nos. 85–86 (1938), 5, and Société des Nations, ‘Au com-
ité exécutif de la Conférence permanente des hautes études internationales,’ Coopération
Intellectuelle, nos. 85–86 (1938): 16–23, 16.
(^28) League of Nations, International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, 1938 , 23,
and International Studies Conference: Report on the 10th Meeting of the Executive
Committee held in Paris, Saturday, January 15, 1938, AG 1-IICI-K-XI-10, UA. See
also Bonnet to Kittredge, January 17, 1938, AG 1-IICI-K-I-4.b, UA. The total sum
of $100,000 granted to the ISC by the Rockefeller Foundation for the years 1938 and

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