542 DOC. 334 S T A T E M E N T S AT I C I C Scheme for an International Universities Association. The Ch a ir ma n called upon the Committee to take a decision on the resolution included in the report of the Sub-Committee concerning this question. In reply to M. de Reynold, who asked for explanations, the Se c r e t a r y said that the Sub-Committee on University Relations had considered that the original scheme of M. Balogh had been submitted in too great detail to make it possible for it to be examined in its present form. The Sub-Committee had thought it necessary to hold a preliminary consultation of universities or national university associations existing in certain countries which, from the intellectual point of view, were the most important. The opinion of these associations would make it possible to estimate the chances of the success of a scheme for the creation of an International Association. The Sub-Committee had refrained from undertaking any investigation in this direction before knowing actually what position the universities or existing national associations would take up with regard to the scheme. M. de Re y n o l d understood that the scheme of M. Balogh would consist in creating national associations in countries where they did not exist and in combining all the national associations into one international association. The Se c r e t a r y replied that this was rather the solution which the Sub-Committee had contemplated, while M. Balogh had desired to go much further. The Secretary added that M. Balogh, owing to the impossibility of summoning immediately a conference of all univer- sities, had thought that a preliminary meeting of the representatives of certain universities should be held, these representatives being chosen according to the age of the universities they represented. The Sub-Committee had abandoned this solution. M. de R e y n o l d declared that he would be able to accept the first paragraph of the reso- lution but not the second, which read as follows : “ It (the Sub-Committee) recommends that, in the countries in which there is not yet a national university association, the National Committee on Intellectual Co- operation should examine the possibility of creating such an association.” He did not favour the submission of recommendations to Governments, for such recom- mendations too often remained a dead letter. The Ch a ir ma n also believed that it would be preferable to leave it to the National Committees of the countries concerned to make such a recommendation themselves. M. E in s t e in would have preferred the Committee, without going so far as to adopt a recommendation and without entering into details, to have expressed the view that, without the creation of national associations or, if necessary, national organisations of some kind, it would appear impossible to achieve the establishment of an international association. M. de K o w a l s k i referred to the case of countries containing racial minorities. Cases in which these minorities set up separate associations must be considered. Perhaps it would [2]