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26. Paul Oilet, Centre mondiale au service de la SocietS des Nations
(Publication No. 88; Bruxelles: Union des Associations Internationales,
1919).
27. Paul Otlet. «Sur la Capitale de la Societe des Nations*, Revue Contemporaine
(25 Janvier, 1919), pp. 1—52.
28. Le Palais de la Ligue des Nations a Bruxelles {projet Froncotte)
(Bruxelles: Union des Villes et Communes Beiges and Union des Associations
Internationales, s. d.). «The object of this brochure is to
present to the President and to the Members of the Peace Conference
.and the chief Administrators of the League of Nations* the claims of
Brussels to the headquarters of the League (p. 2). It based its claim
•on the Expositions and Congresses of the International Associations in
Brussels and the presence there of the Center of the Union des Associations
Internationales. The brochure is also based on Henry Anderson's
«Centre Mondial de Communication* which appeared in 1914. The center
was to be located near Brussels. The brochure is part of a dossier sent
by the UIA to the League of Nations 11 September, 1919.
29. Paul Otlet. Sur I'etablissement en Belgique du siege de la Societe des
Nations (Bruxelles: UIA, 1919). At the end of this work is an annex
which gives excerpts from a debate in the Belgian Parliament on the
matter and the resolutions of a joint conference in Brussels of the
Union Internationale des Villes, the International Garden—City Association
and the UIA.
30. Felix Morley, The Society of Nations (Washington: The Brookings
Institution, 1932), p. 19.
•31. Masure to Beckers, 27 January 1919, Dossier 368a, «Ministere des Sciences
et des Arts», Mundaneum.
32. Dossier 446, «Batiments civils», passim, Mundaneum.
33. Dossier 368a, «Minastere des Sciences et des Arts», passim, Mundaneum.
34. Drummond, who became the 16th Earl of Perth, entered the British
Foreign Office in 1900 and was subsequently private secretary to various
important figures including Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and
Foreign Secretaries Arthur Balfour and Sir Edward Grey. He was
knighted in 1916. He was an active member of the British delegation
to the Paris peace talks and Lord Balfour suggested to the allied leaders
that he be appointed Secretary-General to the new League. He resigned
from the League in 1937 to become British Ambassador to Italy,
retired in 1939 and died in 1951.
35. Nitobe, a Japanese lawyer, had responsibility in the League Secretariat
for relations with international organisations and later also assumed
the Directorship for Intellectual Co-operation.
36. Otlet to House, 20 May 1919, Dossier 39, «,Societe des Nations*, Mundaneum.
37. ^Dossier envoye a la iSoc. (sic) des Nations, 19—09—M, copie», ibid.
38. Nitobe to Otlet and La Fontaine, 13 November 1919, ibid.
39. Draft «Memorandum des reunions qui ont eu lieu a Bruxelles des 25.
26, et 27 aout, 1919, entire les delegues die la Societe des Nations et
les Secretaires Generaux de l'Union des Associations Internationales*.
ibid.
•40. Drummond to Otlet and La Fontaine, 24 September 1919, ibid.
41. Otlet and La Fontaine to Drummond, 27 October 1919, ibid.
42. Nitobe to Otlet and La Fontaine, 13 November 1919, ibid.
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