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replacement as the ISC’s secretary general, namely, Mayoux, who then
proceeded to report on this history of the IIIC and the ISC in the years
between 1939 and 1945.^61
In his report, Mayoux underlined the fact that the recent work of the
conference secretariat had faced a number of difficulties. Mayoux noted
that during the Occupation the Germans had confiscated the index
cards of the institute which contained data concerning correspondence
with the ISC’s members. He further noted that all the copies bar one
of the documents pertaining to the planned study cycle on international
organisation had disappeared. Finally in this context, Mayoux pointed
out that in June 1940 the IIIC had been on the point of publishing
three manuscripts which had resulted from the Bergen conference, the
proofs of which had been corrected and paginated. He added that at the
beginning of the Occupation, the type, which had been set up by the
Firmin-Didot printing firm, had been broken up and that the original
manuscripts had disappeared without a trace.^62
Following Mayoux’s report, the meeting turned to the question of the
future of the ISC, specifically, the question of whether it would should
consider attaching itself to UNESCO or whether it should become
an independent organisation with its own secretariat. In the course of
the ensuing discussion, it was ‘stressed emphatically’ that the ISC was
an association of ‘free scholars’ and that it was of the essence that its
members maintain liberty and independence of thought. Indeed, it was
argued at the meeting that the freedom to express individual views was
all the more important and necessary given that the world was ‘moving
into a period in which official and unofficial interests in policy would
(^61) Ibid.
(^62) International Studies Conference, 1939–1945: Report by the Secretary-General,
AG 1-IICI-K-I-2, UA. The three manuscripts which disappeared were as follows: The
Problem of Raw Materials by Étienne Dennery; Le contrôle des changes by André Piater;
and Exchange Control by André Piatier. The last of these three manuscripts was an English
translation of Le contrôle des changes. A third of the proofs of Dennery’s manuscript was
later found at the printer and an incomplete set of proofs of the Piatier volumes were saved
by the author. The Dennery manuscript was not in the end published as it was considered
out of date. However, the French version of the Piatier manuscript was published by the
ISC in 1947 as it was considered to be of great interest. See also A. Basch, review of Le
Contrôle des Changes: Rapport General [sic], by A. Piatier, American Economic Review 41,
no. 3 (1951): 584–86.