4 INTELLECTUAL COOPERATION IN WAR-TIME AND PLANS ... 425Alluding to the letters published in the IIIC’s monthly bulletin
between December 1939 and April 1940, Bonnet pointed out that in
light of this consultation, the LON’s intellectual organisation pro-
ceeded to ‘launch intellectual action’: in the pages of its monthly bulletin
it sought to give expression to the ‘great desire in many of the non-
belligerent but free countries, notably outside Europe, for a united front
of the people who were defending values threatened with destruction.’
Doubtless in view of the forthcoming Havana conference, Bonnet urged
in his speech action of this kind on the American continent, although
not just the American continent, for as long as the war continued.^302
Bonnet’s watch over the IIIC did not end with his exile from France.
Li pointed out that while in London in 1940, and against a background
in which the LON’s Secretariat and the ICIC had ceased their activities,
Bonnet poured his energies into opposing ‘every Nazi-Vichy attempt to
use...[the IIIC]...for nazi ideologies.’^303
(^302) Ibid. Bonnet stated that the LON’s intellectual organisation was ‘at most, was pre-
vented by censorship from publishing some truthful statements about fascism because too
many people, in the belligerent as well as in the neutral countries, maintained incredible
illusions about Mussolini’s policy’ (ibid., 23).
(^303) Li, ‘International Intellectual Cooperation,’ 300.