5 THE POST-WAR DECLINE OF THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CONFERENCE 487Some years after its liquidation, Manning recalled that with the end of
the funding arrangements with UNESCO (and with no money forth-
coming from private organisations), there was no other choice but to
wind up the conference, adding that at the meeting in London at which
this occurred, it was decided that ‘some of the activities should in some
form be resumed, should conditions eventually make this once more
possible.’ This, however, was not to be.^202
tHe demise of tHe isc
In explaining the demise of the ISC, Manning noted that certain indi-
viduals appeared to have given UNESCO the impression that the ISC
wanted to ‘wind itself up’; however, according to Manning, at a meeting
in Rome of the ISC’s executive committee in early 1952, no such desire
had been expressed. Indeed, Manning stated that ‘[o]n the contrary, the
feeling was that the organisation should continue.’^203
Based on his research into its demise, David Long maintains that the
certain individuals in question were two of Manning’s LSE colleagues,
namely, Robson and T. H. Marshall, the latter being a member of the
LSE’s Sociology Department and, in 1952, the chair of the Working
Party on Social Sciences of UNESCO’s Programme Commission.^204 In
that year, UNESCO’s various working parties were charged with making
recommendations regarding the revision of UNESCO’s programmes on
the assumption of a 7.88 per cent reduction in the budgetary cots orig-
inally estimated for each section, the result being the deletion of some
activities and the postponement of others.^205
Marshall’s Working Party recommended that the funding for the ISC
that year be reduced from a proposed $3500 to $1750. The General
Conference accepted this recommendation and thus the ISC was
awarded a subvention that was the lowest awarded that year to any of
the other non-governmental international organisation supported by
(^202) Manning, ‘Out to Grass—And a Lingering Look Behind,’ 355.
(^203) Ibid., 355. See also Long, ‘Who Killed the International Studies Conference,’ 610.
(^204) Long, ‘Who Killed the International Studies Conference,’ 610, and UNESCO,
‘Records of the General Conference: Seventh Session, Paris, 1952,’ 14, UA.
(^205) UNESCO, ‘Records of the General Conference: Seventh Session, Paris, 1952,’
14–15, UA.