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THE report on the work of the Intellectual Co-operation Organisation, submitted by the Sixth Committee to the Assembly of the League of Nations, refers to the expansion of the Permanent International Studies Conference, which is now engaged in an objective and scientific study of foreign policy. This is an autonomous body which is able to pursue its work in the complete independence proper to scientific research. The most recent subjects dealt with by the Conference are State intervention in economic life, the possibility and conditions of an organization of collective security, and peaceful methods of change as applied to particular problems. For 1936 and 1937, the subjects chosen include the procedures for the peaceful settlement of disputes which have been applied in particular cases, over-population, colonies, migration and distribution of raw materials. In the field of education, an important result of the year's work of the Committee has been the publication by the Paris Institute of a first volume dealing with the organization of higher education and research in several European and American countries, while the Committee's efforts in the teaching of history are bearing fruit in the revision of text-books.
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The Permanent International Studies Conference. Nature 138, 915–916 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138915b0
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