5 THE POST-WAR DECLINE OF THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CONFERENCE 455the president and secretary general of the centre‘s Comité d’études des
problèmes du Pacifique, explained that the centre had only resumed its
activities in Paris in November 1944: its offices had been occupied dur-
ing the war and were returned in a very bad state.^96
Lévy pointed out that among those activities it had reprised follow-
ing the Liberation, was its close collaboration with the IPR secretariat
in New York. Lévy reported that the Comité d études des problèmes du
Pacifique, which was the centre’s permanent committee for Far Eastern
and Pacific questions and point of connection with the IPR, had sent a
large delegation to the IPR’s Hot Springs conference. Later in 1945, the
Comité d études des problèmes du Pacifique hosted a series of lectures,
one of which was given by the IPR’s general secretary, namely, Carter,
who at that point was still the IPR’s general secretary. Carter’s lecture
was entitled The Far East and the Pacific after the Japanese Defeat. The
fact that the Comité d’études des problèmes du Pacifique was reconsti-
tuted in Algiers in 1943, is indicative of the importance attached to the
IPR by official France, which, it should be noted, was well represented
in the French delegation to Hot Springs. In 1943, the committee was
represented by Lévy at a meeting of the IPR’s governing body, namely,
the Pacific Council, in Atlantic City. It should be noted that Lévy took a
great interest in the situation in Indochina as did the other members of
the Comité d’études.^97
Speaking on behalf of the Graduate Institute of International Relations,
Mantoux observed that although the institute had been in the privileged
position of being able to continue its work during the war, it had, ‘suf-
fered from the grave consequence of the war and lost several members—
some died, others went to the United States.’ He added that following
the invasion of France, both Kelsen and Mises had quit Switzerland for
the United States and had ‘not yet returned.’ He added that at the same
time, the institute had benefited from the presence of many refugees in
Geneva.^98 Constantin Vulcan was among those who had found refuge
(^96) Ibid., 11–2, and Politique Étrangère 10, no. 3 (1945), 300–01.
(^97) International Studies Conference, Verbatim report of the XIIIth Administrative ses-
sion, December 16 and 17, 1946, at the Centre d’études de politique étrangère de Paris,
IICI-K-XIV-12, UA, 12, and Politique Étrangère 10, no. 3 (1945), 296, 300–01.
(^98) International Studies Conference, Verbatim report of the XIIIth Administrative session,
December 16 and 17, 1946, at the Centre d’études de politique étrangère de Paris, IICI-K-
XIV-12, UA, 13.