488 J.-A. PEMBERTON
UNESCO. It was also considerably less than it had received in previ-
ous years: in 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1951, the ISC had received from
UNESCO subventions of $10,000, $10,000, $8000 and $5000 respec-
tively.^206 In any case, that the General Conference found the recommen-
dation of Marshall’s Working Party persuasive, may have been helped
by the fact that at a meeting of the General Conference’s Programme
Commission, Marshall stated that the Working Party had ‘doubts about
the financial stability and future prospects’ of the ISC. He also claimed
that the ‘question of...[the ISC’s]..dissolution had been mooted, but
had been left in abeyance pending the execution of certain reorgan-
ization plans. Little was known at the moment,’ he added, ‘about the
success of those endeavours. That was why the Working Party had not
proposed that the grant be entirely withheld.’^207
Cassin, who was at the meeting in question, argued in response that it
was ‘indefensible’ to cite the fact that an organisation was ‘temporarily in
difficult circumstances’ as justification for further weakening its financial
position, adding that there was no precedent for this at UNESCO. On
behalf of the French delegation, which included Vernant, now the ISC’s
secretary general, Cassin, after having noted the ISC’s ‘fine record,’
urged the commission consider the possibility of restoring the ISC’s
funding should the ‘necessary funds ultimately be available.’^208
Voicing strong support for Cassin’s position was an Italian delegate,
namely, Francisco Vito, the economist who had contributed a paper to
the ISC’s first study conference, that is, its session in Milan in 1932 on
the subject of ‘The State and Economic Life’. Before the war, Vito had
(^207) ‘Programme Commission,’ in UNESCO, ‘Records of the General Conference:
Seventh Session, Paris, 1952,’ 426–27. See also Long, ‘Who Killed the International
Studies Conference,’ 610.
(^208) ‘Programme Commission,’ in UNESCO, ‘Records of the General Conference:
Seventh Session, Paris, 1952,’ 426–27.
(^206) ‘Resolutions,’ in UNESCO, ‘Records of the General Conference: Seventh Session,
Paris, 1952,’ 48. See also UNESCO, ‘Conseil exécutif ’ XXII (1953), 33-34 Sessions,
34 EX/15–5, Annexe III, UA. UNESCO’s executive board had originally planned to
award the ISC $4500 for 1953/54. For the sums received between 1947 and 1951, see
UNESCO, ‘Conseil exécutif,’ XIV, 1950, 20-21-22 Sessions, 20 EX/2 (SS)-10-13, March
21, 1950, UA, and UNESCO, ‘Conseil exécutif ’ XVII (1952), 26-27-28 Sessions, 28
EX/17–15, Annexe IX, October 23, 1951, UA.