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" Having further been informed that the Governments of Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela have offered to afford material support to the plan, that the Argentine Government offers to contribute a sum of 25,000 Argentine pesos per annum for the establishment of the collection, according to a plan and conditions of execution approved by it, and that the Faculty of Philosophy of Buenos Aires University has agreed to take charge of the Spanish " Warmly thanks them for these generous contributions, and asks! Jthe Intellectual Co-operation Organization and its Executive Committee to examine, as soon as possible, the plan of the conditions in which it is to be executed. A special session of the Executive Committee, assisted by experts, should be held for this purpose, the costs to be defrayed out of the credits at the disposal of the Secretariat of the Intellectual Co-operation Organization for the current financial period. . . " The works are to be published in French and Spanish, under|jthe supervision ot the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation in the case of the French edition, and of the Faculty of Philosophy of Buenos Aires University in the case of the Spanish edition. " The costs of the Collection, which will serve as an intellectual link between America and the Old World, should be covered by the contributions already promised and by other contributions of Governments or institutions. " The Assembly urgently appeals to the Governments and institutions concerned to place the necessary funds at the disposal of the International Institute on Intellectual Co-operation." 10. Intellectual Rights — " The Assembly — . " Notes that the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law have fully carried out the task entrusted to them by the Sixteenth Assembly as regards the bringing into line of the Berne and Havana Conventions on Authors' Rights ; " Hopes that the texts prepared, in co-operation with Senator Antuna, President ot the Inter-American Commission on Authors' Rights, will be approved both in Europe and America, and that the next revision of the Berne Convention will provide an occasion for the conclusion of a universal convention on Authors' Rights." 11. Intellectual Co-operation Month at the 1937 Universal Exhibition— " The Assembly, having been informed of the decisions taken by the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation concerning the organization of various manifestations of intellectual co-operation in July, 1937, at Paris, in connection with the Universal Exhibition of Art and Technique in Modern Life > . . " Warmly thanks the French Government and the General Commissioner ot the Exhibition for their generous assistance ; " Expresses the opinion that the proposed meetings are likely not only to make intellectual co-operation more widely known, but to give important results ;• " And, willingly acceding to the Council's wish, recommends these manifestations to the favourable'attention of Governments, particularly the second General Conference of National Committees on Intellectual Co-operation, which should be attended by as large as possible a number of the representatives of these Committees." 12. International Educational Cinematograph Institute— " The Assembly approves the resolution of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation concerning the International Educational Cinematographic Institute's work. It once more emphasizes the importance of the role assigned to that Institute by the Convention on the international circulation of films of an educational character, and expresses the hope that Governments would make full use of this Convention in encouraging exchanges of educational films likely to contribute to mutual comprehension between peoples." 13. The League of Nations and Modern Means of spreading Information utilized in the Cause of Peace— " Th.6 Assembly — " Emphasizing once more the desirability of developing international co-operation and mutual understanding between nations; ~ _ "Having regard to the rapid contemporary development of the technical means ot disseminating information; , . , "And considering that this development increases the possibilities of furthering the mutual exchange between nations of information relating to their respective institutions and cult tr > o pj n j on that this question might well be the subject of discussion at the next ordinary session of the Assembly ; " (2) To this end invites the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation to draw up, after such consultations as they may deem appropriate, detailed suggestions to form the basis of the Assembly's discussions ; " (3) And further invites the Secretary-General to report on the above-mentioned technical means of spreading information at the disposal of the competent sections of the Secretariat in order that the Assembly may consider at its next ordinary session whether such means are adequate or whether their further development is desirable in this direction."

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