4 INTELLECTUAL COOPERATION IN WAR-TIME AND PLANS ... 365Relative to the circumstances, a strong economic and social organi-
sation of the LON was indeed preserved. In June 1940, the LON
Secretariat received an invitation from Princeton University, the
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research, ‘suggesting that the technical services of the League
might take up their work in Princeton and offering offices and other
facilities.’^50 As a result of this invitation, Loveday and the majority of the
staff of the Economic, Financial and Transit Department, relocated to
the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in August 1940.^51
The staff who remained in Geneva specialised in European economic
developments while those on mission at Princeton concentrated on
developments in the rest of the world. Responsibility for the production
of the principal publications of the Economic Intelligence Service, the
preservation and efficacy of which the assembly had sought to ensure
by making certain budgetary decisions in December 1939, was divided
between both groups. The Statistical: Year-Book and the Monthly Bulletin
of Statistics continued to be published in Switzerland and without inter-
ruption. However, World Economic Survey, 1939– 4 , which appeared in
the autumn of 1941, was prepared in Princeton.^52 The Princeton-based
staff of the Economic, Financial and Transit Department, which had
(^50) League of Nations, Economic and Financial Committees, Report to the Council on
the Work of the Joint Session London, April 27th–May 1st, 1942, London, April 27th–May
1st, 1942, Princeton, August 7th–8th, 1942, 12. See also Walters, History of the League of
Nations, 809. Walters pointed out that the government of the United States were favoura-
ble to the idea of relocating the LON’s technical services to the United States.
(^51) League of Nations, Economic and Financial Committees, Report to the Council on the
Work of the Joint Session London, April 27th–May 1st, 1942, London, April 27th–May 1st,
1942, Princeton, August 7th–8th, 1942, 12. See also Clavin and Wessels, ‘Transnationalism
and the League of Nations: Understanding the Work of Its Economic and Financial
Organisation,’ 476n. In regard to the war-time location of some of the LON’s other tech-
nical services and the ILO, Walters noted the following: ‘That same autumn the League
Treasury moved to London, where the Refugees Department was already established; and
in the spring of 1941 the Section dealing with the Drug Traffic was officially invited to
set up its office in Washington. As for the International Labour Organization, [John G.]
Winant decided to transfer not merely certain departments, but its main headquarters, to
Montreal. For the duration of the war it carried on its work with energy on Canadian soil,
leaving only a caretaking staff in its Geneva home. Meanwhile, the process of dissolution
went on apace.’ Walters, History of the League of Nations, 809.
(^52) Ibid., 11–13.