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Gross would be specially charged with developing the liaisons between
the institutions represented in the conference.^136
Gross’s letter of January 9 to Chalmers Wright, who did not in fact
resign from the IIIC until January 1936 and who returned temporarily
in the spring of that year in order to assist in the preparations for the
ISC’s 1936 session which was to be held in Madrid, was by way of a
report on a meeting of the BCCIS the previous day.^137 As a result of his
presence at that meeting, Gross was able to tell Chalmers Wright that
Toynbee was very much interested in having the ‘Colonial Problem’
studied by groups in both ‘have’ and ‘have-not’ countries with the assis-
tance of groups in neutral countries. Gross told Chalmers Wright that
Toynbee hoped ‘very much’ that German collaboration would be pos-
sible in a study which Toynbee wanted confined to ‘Central Africa...i.e.
the black country leaving out of consideration Egypt and North Africa
as well as the Union of South Africa.’ Gross informed Chalmers Wright
that the international study group on colonies seemed to be ‘very close
to the heart of everybody at Chatham House,’ adding that Toynbee and
Macadam were ‘extremely anxious to get the study started in an inter-
national plan’ and that the latter had proposed Chatham House as the
group’s centre.^138
In this context, the adjective international in the formula interna-
tional plan appeared, above all, to refer to Anglo-German cooperation.
In regard to this, it should be noted that the Rockefeller Foundation had
agreed to fund the expenses of a statistician to undertake research work
on the economic value of colonies. Having learnt of this, Toynbee told
the aforementioned secretary-rapporteur on colonial questions, that is,
Christophersen (who would later become a key figure in the Norwegian
Origins Functions Organisation, 67. The record of participants in the ISC’s sessions and
meetings in the above account of the origins, functions and organisation of the ISC lists a
Frenchman named F. R. Max who is described therein as a secretary at the IIIC and as a
participant in the conference on peaceful change in 1937.
(^136) Bonnet to Bourquin, 27 November 1935, AG 1-IICI-K-I-5.b, UA.
(^137) 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; Gross to Chalmers Wright, 9 January 1936. AG 1-IICI-K-
15.b, UA, and Chalmers Wright to Oliver Jackson, 28 March 1937, AG 1-IICI-K-I-15.e,
UA.
(^138) Gross to Chalmers Wright, 9 January 1936. AG 1-IICI-K-15.b, UA.