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The IIIC reopened its doors in February 1945, whereupon Mayoux
immediately proceeded to oversee the renewal of its various activities:
its activities in relation to cinema, archives, libraries, museums, literature
and the exact, natural and social sciences. The IIIC even launched a new
initiative in the form of radio transmissions emanating from the Palais
Royal. Radio-Monde, as this service was called, broadcast at least twenty
transmissions of an ‘intellectual and international character’ between
April and October 1945. Courtesy of the antennae of Radiodiffusion
française, these transmissions could be heard throughout the world.^1
Such measures were consistent with the French efforts within the
context of CAME to promote French interests in matters of intellec-
tual cooperation and to ensure the survival of the IIIC.^2 Mayoux, like
Cassin and Bonnet, was worried about the fate of the IIIC in light of
Anglo-Saxon ambitions, especially the ambitions of the all-powerful
Americans. The fact that in the context of CAME ‘people reproached

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(^1) ‘Note,’ numéro spécial, Coopération Intellectuelle Internationale [c] (octobre–novem-
bre 1945): 1–5, 3. See also Renoliet, L’UNESCO oubliée, 161.
(^2) Renoliet, L’UNESCO oubliée, 160. Cassin lead these efforts in the context of CAME
wherein he defended the reputation of the IIIC. In May 1944, Cassin warned the
Consultative Assembly in Algeria that it must not neglect ‘the interests of France in matters
of intellectual co-operation’ (ibid.).