1 PEACEFUL CHANGE OR WAR? 41during the two years to come to the propositions of the Conference’ in
respect to peaceful change.^133
Bonnet went on to tell Bourquin that ‘unfortunately’ Chalmers
Wright was going to quit his position as chief of the International
Relations and Social Science Service and therefore his position as secre-
tary of the ISC at the end of the year.^134 Against this background and
in view of the growing number of members of the ISC and the IIIC’s
desire to assist in the creation and development of institutions for the
scientific study of International relations, Bonnet explained that he
was going reorganise the International Relations and Social Sciences
Service: in future the service would be confided to three functionaries.
Two of these functionaries, Bonnet was please to report, had already
been appointed: Leo Gross, an Austrian national, and Jiri F. Vranek, a
Czechoslovakian national who had previously occupied the role, as
had his wife Lilian F. Vranek, of lecturer in international politics at the
University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, an institution which he had
represented on the BCCIS.^135 Bonnet told Bourquin that while Vranek
would occupy himself with certain of the special activities of the service,
(^133) Henri Bonnet to Maurice Bourquin, 27 November 1935, Rapporteur général. Prof.
Bourquin, 15 octobre 1935, AG 1-IICI-K-I-5.b, UA. See also International Institute of
Intellectual Cooperation: Ninth International Studies Conference, Madrid May 27–30,
1936, Notes on the Agenda of the Administrative Meeting, AG 1-IICI-K-IX-1.
(^134) Bonnet to Bourquin, 27 November 1935, AG 1-IICI-K-I-5.b, UA. See also
International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation: Ninth International Studies
Conference, Madrid, May 27–30, 1936, Notes on the Agenda of the Administrative
Meeting, Neuvième conférence des hautes éudes internationales tenue à Madrid, 27–30
mai 1936, AG 1-IICI-K-IX-1, UA.
(^135) Bonnet to Bourquin, 27 November 1935, AG 1-IICI-K-I-5.b, UA. See also
International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation: Ninth International Studies
Conference, Madrid, May 27–30, 1936, Notes on the Agenda of the Administrative
Meeting, AG 1-IICI-K-IX-1. According to a document submitted to the administra-
tive meeting of the ISC’s 1936 session, the third functionary or secretary appointed to
assist in the IIIC’s International Relations and Social Sciences Service was a Frenchman
named F. Max. See further International Studies Conference, Peaceful Change: Procedures,
Population, Raw Materials, Colonies: Proceedings of the Tenth International Studies
Conference, Paris, June 28th–July 3rd 1937 (Paris: International Institute of Intellectual
Co-operation, 1938), 633. It should be noted that the list of participants in the 1937
conference of the ISC records the participation of the following secretaries of the IIIC:
Leo Gross; Oliver Jackson, Jiri F. Vranek; and Alfred R. Max. See also League of Nations,
International Institute of International Co-operation, The International Studies Conference: