D O C . 4 3 0 I N S T . I N T E L L E C T U A L C O O P E R AT I O N 4 0 7 a few sessions, this body came to the realization that it would have to add a perma- nent office with an adequate staff and resources to process extensive surveys and manage difficult negotiations. However, as the money for this was lacking in Ge- neva, the French government offered in July 1924 to create such an institute at its own expense under the sole condition that the headquarters of the new League of Nations agency be moved to Paris.[5] This proposal was accepted by the General Assembly of the League of Nations in September 1924. In May 1925, the aforementioned committee determined the details of the activity and the bylaws of the new bureau.[6] Thus was created the “League of Nations International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation” (Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle), to which the French government allocated the magnificent rooms of the Palais Royal in agree- ment with the League of Nations, which administers the office declared to be ex- traterritorial through the “Committee on International Intellectual Cooperation” at its discretion. On 16 January 1926, the office was formally opened in the presence of numerous luminaries of science, art, and literature, and representatives of many foreign universities.[7] The objections that have been raised against the plan for an international orga- nization for intellectual work are of the same type as the basic reservations against the efficacy of the League of Nations itself. Consequently, the hope is justified that the obstacles that loom in front of the field of activity of the new office can be smoothed out, to the extent that the effects of the political and economic treaties among the various countries become beneficially tangible after the successes of the policies of Locarno. Did the English prime minister Baldwin not conclude the Lon- don speech after the signing of the Treaties of Locarno with Pascal’s words: “I trust that science and peace will triumph over the weapons of war”?[8] As for the internal organization of the office, it comprises seven sections corre- sponding to the subject classification of the issues to be addressed. This division of tasks was decided by the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. The Division for General Affairs deals with the issue of international under- standing through the means of education. A union of the delegates of the relevant large international associations has been formed and meets every six weeks. This same division investigates the issues of the international educational system and the prerequisites for favorably influencing the intellectual development of human- ity through cinematography and radio broadcasting.— The division proposed the establishment of a selective bibliography and important writings about the social and intellectual problems of the present. It has regular contact with all international institutions of a general nature.