4 INTELLECTUAL COOPERATION IN WAR-TIME AND PLANS ... 363Renoliet records that by then end of the year the negotiations
between Berber and Vichy had been abandoned on both sides. He notes
that the Quai d’Orsay wanted to ‘defend in the face of the Occupier
what remained of French interests even in a minor domain’ whereas
the Occupier had decided to ‘retire from all negotiations exceeding the
framework of the Armistice.’^43 While negotiations resulted in the evacua-
tion of the German Army from the IIIC’s premises at the Palais Royal, it
would remain closed for the duration of the Occupation.^44
The progress of the war also called to a halt the activities of the
ISC. A planned meeting of its programme and executive committees
in Geneva on June 28 and 29 was cancelled.^45 Although its conference
bureau managed to hold a meeting in New York on November 10,
1941, this was primarily in order to suspend the ISC’s activities. Davis,
as chair of the executive committee, informed ISC members following
the New York meeting, that the obstacles the war had placed in the way
of international collaboration and the absence of a conference secre-
tariat meant the ISC could no longer continue its work. Davis advised
members that this suspension was not intended to be definitive, not
least because there was an ‘urgent need for the study of problems of
International Organisation in preparation for action at the end of the war
now in progress.’^46
(^43) Renoliet, L’UNESCO oubliée, 154.
(^44) Ibid., 155. Renoliet provides a highly detailed account of this chapter in the IIIC’s
history, discussing also the attempt in April 1941 to transfer the institute to an unoccupied
zone in France as well as moves to suppress it entirely.
(^45) Pitman B. Potter to Henri Bonnet, April 1, 1940, AG 1-IICI-K-I-2. See also Renoliet,
L’UNESCO oubliée, 150.
cooperation organisation, see William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi, eds., Li Yu-ying (Li
Shizeng): History of His Work with Soybeans in France, and His Political Career in China and
Taiwan (1881–1973): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook (Lafayette, CA:
Soyinfo Center, 2011), 8, 89–90, 94, 107. For his presence at the 1937 session of the ISC
in Paris, see International Studies Conference, Peaceful Change: Procedures, Population, Raw
Materials, Colonies, 627. In the list of participants in the conference’s proceedings, Li Yu
Ying, as Li Yu-ying’s name appears in that list, is described as the ‘President of the National
Academy, Peiping’ (ibid.).
(^46) For Davis’s communication to the members of the ISC, see International Studies
Conference: Communication by the Chairman of the Executive Committee, December 19,
1941, AG 1-IICI-K-I-24, UA.