1 PEACEFUL CHANGE OR WAR? 29to a letter dated October 1934 that Toynbee sent to Henri Bonnet the
director of the IIIC, at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik (German
Academy of Political Science).^96 A private institution founded in 1920
which was a German equivalent of the École libre des sciences politiques
in Paris and the London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE) and which had strong connections with the Weimar Republic’s
political establishment, the academy had been the venue for the meeting
of savants which had laid the basis for the foundation of the CISSIR.
The CISSIR had been renamed on June 1, 1933, the International
Studies Conference at the CISSIR’s sixth session. It was at this session,
which, following its inauguration at the LSE was convened at Chatham
House, that representatives of the German unit of the ISC, namely, the
Ausschuss für Auswärige Angelegenheiten, announced that the teaching
department of the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik which had served as
that unit’s headquarters since 1928, had been nazified and placed at the
disposition of Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda.^97
It was on Toynbee’s initiative, following a meeting that Toynbee held
with him in Berlin in June 1934, that Berber was issued a personal invi-
tation to attend the ISC’s conference on collective security in London
in the following year. Toynbee hoped that as a result of this invita-
tion, Germany would be bought back into relations with the ISC: the
Ausschuss für Auswärige Angelegenheiten, or what remained of it since
nearly all of its principal figures had by then gone into exile, had for-
mally terminated its membership of the conference following Germany’s
(^96) Arnold J. Toynbee to Henri Bonnet, 10. October 1934, Conférence permanente des
hautes études internationales, 1er juillet-30 novembre 1934, AG 1-IICI-K-I-1.n, UA.
(^97) ‘Collective Security: A Preliminary Study Conference: IV Opening Meeting,’
Intellectual Co-operation: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 5–6 (1934): 152–55, 153; Alfred E.
Zimmern, Report on the Administrative Meeting of the Sixth Session of the International
Studies Conference (1), May 29–June 2, 1933, June 1, 1933, Conférence permanente des
hautes études internationales, publications (préparation): Lexique des termes politiques,
1929–1933, AG 1-IICI-K-II-4.b, UA; C. A. W. Manning, ‘Observations sur l’enseigne-
ment universitaire des relations internationales,’ Coopération Intellectuelle, nos. 68–69
(1936): 52–7, 54; Société des Nations, Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle,
Seizième session de la Conférence des institutions pour les études scientifique des relations
internationales: Rapport sur les activités du Ausschuss für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten de
Berlin en 1932–1933, présenté par le professeur Otto Hoetzsch, président du Ausschuss,
and Enrst Jäckh (address, Sixth Conference of Institutions for the Scientific Study of
International Relations, London, June 1, 1933), Conférence permanente des hautes études
internationales—Institutions nationales, Allemagne, 1926–1935, AG 1-IICI-K-IV-2.c, UA.