The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, sometimes League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, was an advisory organization for the League of Nations which aimed to promote international exchange between scientists, researchers, teachers, artists and intellectuals. Established in 1922, it counted such figures as

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, Albert Einstein, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan,

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, Marie Curie,

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and Robert A. Millikan among its members. The committee was the predecessor to UNESCO, and all of its properties were transferred to that organisation in 1946.

The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (Geneva)

The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) was formally established in August 1922. Having started out with 12 members, its membership later grew to 19 individuals, mostly from Western Europe. The first session was held on August 1, 1922, under the chairmanship of

. During its lifetime, the committee attracted a variety of prominent members, for instance Albert Einstein, Marie Curie,

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Jules Destrée Jules Destrée (; Marcinelle, 21 August 1863 – Brussels, 3 January 1936) was a Walloon lawyer, cultural critic and socialist politician. The trials subsequent to the strikes of 1886 determined his commitment within the Belgian Labour Party. ...

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, Alfredo Rocco,

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and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Einstein resigned in 1923, protesting publicly the committee's inefficacy; he rejoined in 1924 to mitigate the use German chauvinists made of his resignation. The body was successively chaired by: *

(1922–1925) *

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(1925–1928) * Gilbert Murray (1928–1939). The CICI maintained a number of sub-committees (e.g. Museums, Arts and Letters, Intellectual Rights or Bibliography) which also worked with figures such as

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, Thomas Mann,

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and Paul Valéry. The CICI worked closely with the International Educational Cinematographic Institute created in Rome in 1928 by the Italian government under Mussolini. The last session took place in 1939, but the CICI was only formally dissolved in 1946, like the League of Nations. File:League of Nations Commission 067.tif, CICI Plenary session (date unknown, between 1924 and 1927). File:BergsonNitobeIntellectualCooperation.jpg, Henri Bergson (CICI president) to Inazo Nitobe (International Bureaux Section director), 1924. File:League of Nations Commission 075.tif, CICI Plenary session 1939. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-11045, Genf, Haus des Völkerbundrates.jpg, The

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( Geneva), seat of the

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and the CICI between 1922 and 1937.

The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (Paris)

To support the work of the commission in Geneva, the organization was offered assistance from France to establish an executive branch, the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (IIIC), in Paris in 1926. However, the IIIC had an autonomous status and was almost only financed by the French government. It maintained relations with the league's member states, which established national commissions for intellectual cooperation and appointed delegates to represent their interests at the institute in Paris. While being an international organisation, each of the IIIC's three successive directors was French: * Julien Luchaire (1926–1930) *

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(1931–1940) *

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(1945–1946) From 1926 to 1930, Alfred Zimmern – the well-known British classicist and a pioneering figure in the discipline of international relations – served as the IIIC's deputy director. As a result of the Second World War, the institute was closed from 1940 to 1944. It re-opened briefly from 1945 to 1946. When it closed for good in 1946, UNESCO inherited its archives and some parts of its mission.

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Research Guide on Intellectual Cooperation
by UN Archives Geneva.
Intellectual Cooperation and International Bureaux Section
at UN Archives Geneva. {{DEFAULTSORT:International Committee On Intellectual Cooperation International scientific organizations League of Nations Organizations established in 1922 Organizations disestablished in 1946 Former international organizations Organisations based in Geneva UNESCO