Ahistorical analysis of the League of Nations International Committee of Intellectual Cooperation as the predecessor of the Unesco

本项目从国际联盟国际智力合作委员会是联合国教育、科学及文化组织的前身这一历史角度来审查该委员会。根据对联合国教科文组织档案馆、国际联盟档案馆、法国外交档案馆、联合王国国家档案馆、美国国家档案馆和哥伦比亚大学贝克图书馆中存储的文件的审查，研究表明，联合国教科文组织使用的国际智力合作框架起源于该委员会的成立，当时法国外交部发挥了非常积极的作用。这项研究还表明，比利时的国际主义者可能创建了一个完全不同类型的智力合作组织；稻生太郎在委员会成立的头几年发挥了非常积极的作用；日本自始至终继续参与委员会的活动。这项研究表明，为了更深刻地理解国际智力合作的历史意义，有必要对二战期间举行的教育部长会议进行进一步分析。

This project examines the League of Nations International Committee of Intellectual Cooperation from the historical perspective that the committee was the predecessor of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Based on the scrutiny of documents stored in the Unesco archives, the League of Nations archives, French diplomatic archives, United Kingdom national archives, United States national archives, and Columbia University's Baker Library, the study reveals that the framework of the international intellectual cooperation used by Unesco originated with the creation of the committee, at a time when the French foreign ministry took a very active role. The study also demonstrates that there was a possibility that internationalists in Belgium might have created a totally different type of intellectual cooperation organization; that Inazo Nitobe took a very active role in the first years of the committee; and that Japan continued to participate in its activities throughout. The study suggests that further analysis of the conference of educational ministers held during World War II will be necessary for a more profound understanding of the historical meaning of international intellectual cooperation.