5 THE POST-WAR DECLINE OF THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CONFERENCE 461by the ‘introduction of certain principles and procedures of international
justice’. In particular, and continuous with the position adopted by the
French delegations to the League and to ISC in the pre-war period,
Pernot drew attention to the restrictions on sovereignty entailed by the
United Nations collective security system and the impact of that system
on the century-old tradition of neutrality. It was perhaps by way of vin-
dicating the posture of pre-war France, that Pernot, having noted that
neutrality had been conducive to Hitler’s aggression in 1939, called
attention to a recent observation made by Rappard: that the United
Nations Organisation is an ‘Association of repentant neutrals.’^115
The question of a future subject of study was not settled at the admin-
istrative meeting but was referred to a programme committee. The
major item on the agenda of the administrative meeting was the ques-
tion of whether or not the conference should enter into a relationship
with UNESCO. Determining the answer to this question was a matter of
urgency in light of the pending closure of the IIIC: the secretarial, finan-
cial and other forms of assistance provided to the ISC by the IIIC were
about to be terminated. Mayoux, who favoured the idea that the confer-
ence should join UNESCO, advised the meeting that despite his pleas
on the conference’s behalf, there were serious doubt as to whether funds
would be forthcoming from the Rockefeller Foundation in the future.
Mayoux told the meeting that the foundation, which had sent R. T.
Crane as an observer to the Paris meeting on the invitation of the ISC,
was concerned about ‘divergencies of points of view’ within the confer-
ence in regard to its programme and other matters, including whether or
not it should associate itself with UNESCO.^116
Towards the conclusion of the discussion, Davis, speaking not as
conference chair but as a representative of the Carnegie Endowment,
declared that his impression was that the Rockefeller Foundation val-
ued the conference and that it might consider funding precise and lim-
ited projects as might, he added, the Carnegie Endowment. However,
he stated that such an arrangement would only be considered by these
philanthropic bodies if an accord between the ISC and UNESCO was
(^115) Ibid., 103–4.
(^116) Ibid., ii, 62–63.