6 6 2 D O C . 4 3 0 T H E I I I C I N P A R I S Es vergeht kaum eine Woche, ohne daß in den Sälen des Völkerbundamtes ein internationaler Kongreß tagt, und eine ganze Reihe solcher Tagungen haben sich im Hause ein besonderes Büreau eingerichtet: darunter die Internationale Akade- mie für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft, der Internationale Verband für geschichtliche Synthese, der Internationale Mittellschullehrerverband, der Interna- tionale Journalistenverband, die Fédération des Unions intellectuelles, der Interna- tionale Geschichtsforscherverband, die Internationale des Theater usw. Published in Pressedienst der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund, 10 December 1926, n. p. Obscured. [1]In Doc. 406, Einstein stated that he did not write the article himself but rather asked the press department of the IIIC to compose it and he then signed it. [2]Article 23 of the Covenant of the League of Nations of 1919 dealt, among others, with the issues of labor, hygiene, and transit traffic. It stipulated that all member states “will endeavour to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women and children... will make provisions to secure and maintain freedom of communication and of transit... [and] will endeavour to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease.” International organiza- tions were established to aid the League of Nations in dealing with these issues: the International Labour Organization, which had originally been created by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 the League of Nations Health Organization, established in 1922 and the Communications and Transit Organization, set up in 1921 (see Ginneken 2006, pp. 61–62, 99–100, and 109–110). [3]The author is quoting from a proposed resolution titled “Intellectual Organisation of Intellectual Work,” which was submitted to the First Assembly of the League of Nations, held in Geneva from 15 November to 18 December 1920, by the delegates Prosper Poullet, Demetre Negulesco, and Mag- giorino Ferraris. In the original text, the resolution contained the following wording: “The Assembly of the League of Nations... [r]ecommends that the Council... should associate itself as closely as pos- sible with all measures tending to bring about the international organisation of intellectual work.” The resolution was adopted by the assembly on 18 December 1920 and not on 18 September, as stated by the author (see League 1920a, p. 271, and 1920b, p. 22). [4]The secretary general of the League of Nations was Eric Drummond (1876–1951). For his invi- tation to Einstein to join the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, see Eric Drum- mond to Einstein, 17 May 1922 [Vol. 13, Doc. 192]). The first session of the ICIC was held under the presidency of Henri Bergson on 1–5August 1922 in Geneva, yet Einstein did not attend (see Société 1922 and Einstein to Eric Drummond, 29 July 1922 [Vol. 13, Doc. 314]). [5]On the establishment of the IIIC in Paris, see Valderama 1995, p. 2. Einstein had originally opposed locating the institute in Paris, but his concerns were eventually allayed (see Einstein to Betty Neumann, 6 and 8 August 1924 [Vol. 14, Doc. 300], and Doc. 163). [6]The Assembly of the League of Nations adopted the resolution to establish the institute at its fifth session in Geneva on 23 September 1924 (see League 1924, pp. 16–17). The ICIC deliberated on the establishment of the institute at its fifth session, held in Paris on 11–14 May 1925. A drafting committee to draw up the regulations of the institute was appointed on 14 May (see League 1925a, p. 36). [7]For Einstein’s article published on the occasion of the institute’s inauguration and for his notes for a toast at the inauguration banquet, see Docs. 165 and 167. [8]Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) was the British prime minister. The Locarno Treaties were signed in London on 1 December 1925 (see Doc. 90, note 12). The quote in question seems to have been erroneously attributed to Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). It is more likely a reference to a quote by Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) at the official celebration of his seventieth birthday at the Sorbonne on 27 December 1892. Addressing the foreign delegates who attended the celebration, Pasteur, whose words were delivered by his son, spoke of his “invincible belief that science and peace will triumph