466 J.-A. PEMBERTON
ISC remained a ‘free association of scholars.’^129 With the dissolution
of the IIIC pending, the meeting adopted a resolution authorising the
bureau of the conference, over which Davis presided, to negotiate a pro-
visional arrangement with UNESCO and to explore other avenues for
ensuring the conference’s continued viability. It should be noted that the
British delegation was particularly insistent that avenues for ensuring the
conference’s survival other than the UNESCO avenue be explored.^130
An Accord witH unesco
As it soon became apparent that other avenues for ensuring the ISC’s
continued viability were not likely to materialise, negotiating an accord
with UNESCO became almost inevitable. For the purpose of negotiat-
ing this accord, the French Government granted the ISC the status of an
international non-governmental organisation and along with that special
extra-territorial privileges.^131 On March 3, 1947, the IIIC’s facilities at
the Palais Royal, of which the library, archives, bookshelves and mechani-
cal equipment had been transferred to UNESCO earlier in the year, were
placed at the disposal of the ISC for the duration of the negotiations.^132
(^129) Ibid., 49, 55–6. Roger Seydoux, a French delegate at the Paris session, was also a
member of the Legal and Administrative Committee of UNESCO’s first general con-
ference. He argued at the 1946 session of the ISC that Webster’s interpretation of
the Provisional Directive on Relations between UNESCO and Non-Governmental
International Organisations was too restrictive and that it was not intended by the commit-
tee that ‘rigorous control’ be exercised by UNESCO over private organisations in order to
‘keep them in a state of dependence.’ He noted that Article 2 of the Provisional Directive
stated the following: ‘In its co-operation with the organisations...UNESCO will recognise
and fully respect their independence and autonomy within the field of their competence’
(ibid., 56–57). See also Politique Étrangère 12, no. 2 (1947), 242.
(^130) 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, 84–7, 91.
(^131) Ibid., 116–17.
(^132) For the transfer of the institute’s effects to UNESCO, see Edward J. Carter to Jean-
Jacques Mayoux, January 13, 1947, and the attached Memorandum of Edward J. Carter
Counsellor for Libraries and Museums at UNESCO, AG 1-IICI-K-I-3, UA. For the ISC’s
use of the institute’s premises, see the letter of Vranek to Guy Dorget, February 7, 1947,
and L’ accord entre la Conférence des hautes études internationales et la Commission
nationale provisoire pour la éducation, la science et la culture, March 3, 1947, AG 1-IICI-
K-I-3, UA. The ISC had no legal personality of its own but was a ‘dependence’ of the IIIC
and thus had no property of its own. With the termination of its existence, the institute’s