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reached. He thus urged the conference to enter a provisional arrange-
ment with UNESCO until that time early in the next year when
UNESCO would take on some of the functions of the IIIC.^117
At the start of the meeting, Mayoux had highlighted the fact that the
ISC had been invited to send an observer to the UNESCO conference.
He stated that this was a point which needed to be stressed because it
showed how hard he and his associates had fought to maintain the ISC
as a ‘live institution’ outside of the framework of the IIIC. Mayoux
drew attention to the fact that the ISC had been mentioned on a num-
ber of occasions during discussions taking place within the confines of
UNESCO’s Sub-Committee 2 (Social Sciences), discussions which
both Mayoux and Vranek had attended. The ‘most important refer-
ence’ to the ISC in the context of those discussions, Mayoux told the
meeting in Paris, was on the occasion when Zimmern reported to the
sub-committee on his special mission.^118 In his report, Zimmern
recommended that UNESCO establish a Study Centre in International
Relations and suggested that the ISC, which Zimmern’s report insisted
was ‘very much alive,’ might continue its work ‘in connection with, but
independently of UNESCO.’^119
That the ISC would maintain its autonomy if it entered an arrange-
ment with UNESCO was affirmed at the same meeting by De Blonay.
De Blonay told the meeting that based on a discussion that he had had
with Huxley, the person who had appointed De Blonay to his position,
he could say that it was ‘definitely understood that in any agreement con-
cluded between UNESCO and the Conference, the first article would
be, precisely, that this agreement would in no way affect the autonomy
(^117) Ibid., 77–78, 91. For the funding policies of the Rockefeller Foundation and the
Carnegie Endowment, see Politique Étrangère 12, no. 2 (1947), 243.
(^118) 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, 5.
(^119) UNESCO, ‘General Conference, First Session, Paris, 20 November–10 December,
1946,’ Programme Commission II, Sub-Commission on Social Sciences, Philosophy
and Humanistic Studies, C/Prog.Com./S.C.Soc.Sci./V.R.2.E, 30–31, 34–35, UA. See
also UNESCO, ‘General Conference, First Session, Paris, 20 November–10 December,
1946,’ Programme Commission II, Sub-Commission on Social Sciences, Philosophy and
Humanistic Studies,’ C/Prog.Com./S.C.Soc.Sci./V.R.3.E, 16, UA, and Vranek to Davis,
December 2, 1946, AG 1-IICI-K-V-2.d, UA.