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News of members of the ICIC’s executive committee was also
sought. Contact was very quickly resumed with Malcolm W. Davis.
Davis had spent the first year and a quarter of the war representing the
American Red Cross in Geneva, acting at the same time as associate sec-
retary general of the League of Red Cross Societies. At the time when
the IIIC resumed contact with him, he was occupying the role of act-
ing director of the Carnegie Endowment in New York.^18 The IIIC’s
bulletin was pleased to report that another member of the executive
committee, namely, Julien Cain, had been liberated by the Americans
from Buchenwald concentration camp in April. It was there that Cain
had spent the last sixteen months of the four years of captivity he had
endured, following his removal by Vichy from his post as secretary of the
Bibliotèque nationale de France. The bulletin was also pleased to report
that Herriot, the French member of the ICIC and the head of the IIIC’s
administrative committee, had returned to France via the USSR. Herriot,
the bulletin reported, had been recently released by the Soviet Army
from Germany where he had been detained due to his opposition, some-
what belated though it was, to the Vichy government.^19
The reopened IIIC also preoccupied itself with renewing contact
with the national committees of intellectual cooperation, although this
proved difficult because certain of these committees had disintegrated
in whole or in part. However, contact was soon made with nearly all
the national committees of South America: the Argentinian, Brazilian,
Bolivian, Chilean, Cuban, Dominican Republican, Mexican, Peruvian,
El Salavadorean and Venezuelan national committees all remained intact.
The committees in the ‘countries of the English language,’ namely, in
Australia, Canada, Great Britain, India, the Union of South Africa and
the United States also remained intact.^20
(^18) Coopération Intellectuelle Internationale [d] (octobre–novembre 1945), 61.
For Davis’s role with the Red Cross and then in New York, see Davis, ‘The League of
Minds,’ 240, and Malcolm W. Davis, ‘Experiences of the Committee for International
Cooperation,’ Journal of Educational Sociology 20, no. 1 (1946): 49–52.
(^19) Coopération Intellectuelle Internationale [d] (octobre–novembre 1945): 61–2. See also
‘5,400 Deaths Buchenwald Toll,’ The Maple Leaf, April 20, 1945.
(^20) ‘Reprise des relations avec les Commissions nationale de C.I.,’ numéro spécial,
Coopération Intellectuelle Internationale (octobre–novembre 1945): 62–5, 62–3.