5 THE POST-WAR DECLINE OF THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CONFERENCE 431The special issue of the IIIC’s bulletin also reported on the gradual
return to life of the ICO, noting that from the first day of resuming its
activities, the IIIC had sought to re-establish its links with the other
organs of the organisation. It was thus that Mayoux travelled to England
to consult with Murray who continued in his role as president of the
ICIC.^15 Contact was made with other members of the ICIC: Argentina’s
Victoria Ocampo, Peru’s Francisco Garcia-Calderon and Brazil’s Almeida
(this last being president of the Provisional International Committee
for Intellectual Cooperation, that is, of the aforementioned inter-Amer-
ican committee that was formed in 1941), all of whom pledged their
support for the maintenance of the IIIC. Also pledging their support
were the following ICIC members: Czechoslovakia’s Bedrich Hrozny,
Egypt’s Taha Hussein, Norway’s Ellen Gleditsch, Portugal’s Julio
Dantas, Switzerland’s Gonzague de Reynold and Shotwell. In addition
to receiving written communications, the IIIC received a visit from Li,
who at that time on the point of leaving Paris for China. The purpose
of Li’s visit was to confirm the attachment of his country to Intellectual
Cooperation and to transmit the same sentiments on behalf of the
Chinese member of the ICIC: Wu Zhihui.^16
According to the special issue, it seemed that the telegrams that had
been sent from Paris to the Indian and Lithuanian members of the ICIC,
respectively Sir Abdul Qadar and Martin Primanis, had not reached
them. There were three members of the committee who could never
be reached. Nicolae Titulescu, who had served from 1921 to 1936 as
the permanent delegates of Romania to the LON, had died in exile
in France on March 17, 1941; Teleki, who had resumed the role of
Hungarian prime minister in 1939, had been found dead in his chamber
on the morning of April 3, 1941, just as the Germans began their march
into Hungary; and Huizinga had died on February 1, 1945, following
his detention by his country’s occupiers, ‘a victim,’ the IIIC’s bulletin
observed, ‘of the Nazi rage’.^17
(^15) ‘Nouvelles des Membres de la Commission Internationale,’ numéro spécial,
Coopération Intellectuelle Internationale [d] (octobre–novembre 1945): 61–2.
(^16) Ibid.
(^17) ‘Hommage: Jean Huizinga,’ numéro spécial Coopération Intellectuelle Internationale
[e] (octobre–novembre 1945): 11–2; ‘Hommage: Comte Paul Teleki,’ numéro spé-
cial, Coopération Intellectuelle Internationale (octobre–novembre 1945): 13–14; and
Coopération Intellectuelle Internationale [d] (octobre–novembre 1945): 61. See also ‘Count
Teleki’s Suicide: Budapest Confirmation—Nazis Blamed,’ West Australian, April 5, 1941.