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the CAME proposals. One of these points of difference concerned the
French view, as reflected in Mayoux’s letter to Zimmern, that the distinc-
tion made in the CAME proposal between education and culture, did
not sufficiently establish the goal of diffusing and advancing knowledge.
The letter warned that there was a danger that certain elements of the
programme would be ‘sacrificed to others.’ Notably, the letter concluded
in stating that the IIIC had two decades of experience in the domain
of intellectual cooperation in all its diversity and that this rendered it an
‘extremely precious instrument of work for the new Organisation’ and
that the new organisation ‘must use this instrument as its secretariat’.^12
tHe AwAkening of tHe orgAnisAtion of intellectuAl
cooPerAtion
Much of the rest of the special issue consisted in the following: a defence
of the IIIC’s record, a demonstration of its continued vitality and a plea
for its survival. Included in it were reports of the activities that the IIIC
had undertaken in the past and of the activities which it had recently
recommenced. There was also a report concerning one of its new initi-
atives, namely, Radio-Monde. These various reports all sought to illus-
trate a point that had been made by Mayoux in one of this letters to
Bidault: that the work that the ICO had undertaken in the interwar years
encompassed all the fields which were being mentioned in connection
with certain rival projects.^13 In order to further demonstrate this point,
the special issue provided a detailed list of all the works the IIIC had
published up until its closure in 1940. It also provided a list of the works
it had published in the immediate aftermath of the war. Notably, the first
item on the latter list was a work in the field of the exact sciences.^14
(^13) Coopération Intellectuelle Internationale [c] (octobre–novembre 1945), 3.
(^14) The first book itemised in the list of works published by the IIIC in the imme-
diate aftermath of the war was entitled Les fondements et la méthode dans les sciences
mathémathiques. This book was the result of a meeting organised by the IIIC and the
École polytechnique fédéral de Zurich which was held in Zurich from December 6 to 9,
- ‘Premières publications d’après guerre de l’I.I.C.I.,’ numéro spécial, Coopération
Intellectuelle Internationale (octobre–novembre 1945): 89–90.
(^12) Ibid., 40–3. The letter sent by Georges Bidault, the French foreign minister, to Alfred
Duff Cooper, the British ambassador at Paris was dated August 21, 1945, and was signed
by J. (Jean) Chauvel.