THE WORK OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS FOR DOCUMENTATION

Between the two wars the League of Nations through its Intellectual Co‐operation Organization sought to improve intellectual relations, as they were then called, between the countries of the world. This sphere of activity lacked any precise definition, but in practice the Organization covered much the same ground that its successor, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, does today. The structure of the League body, however, was strikingly different from that of Unesco, and in some respects the same is true of the methods by which it worked. But this does not lessen the importance of taking into account the experience of this much‐neglected body (this article being more concerned with the field of documentation) for understanding how Unesco came to be and perhaps for evaluating its work.