INTERNATIONAL GROUPS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)

INTERNATIONAL GROUPS

“Handbook of International Organisations” (League of Nations Publications).

The Secretariat of the League of Nations has just published a new English edition of the "Handbook of International Organisations,” which is a companion copy to the last year's French edition. The volume gives, on nearly 500 pages, the names, addresses, names of officers, notes on finances, objects and activity, and other details of nearly 760 international organisations. Included are international bureaux placed under the direction of the League, official central bureaux and private associations and federations insofar as they have international objects and are no’t run for profit. In order to facilitate the use of the handbook, the organisations have been classified according to their objects or activities. In addition, three indexes have been provided for further convenience of the user; a subject index, an alphabetical index, and a geographical index. From the last it appears that nearly half the total number of international organisations have their seats in France and Switzerland. There are 183 in France (.172 in Paris alone) and 140 in Switzerland (80 in Geneva). Great Britain follows next with 78 organisations, and Belgium close behind with 77. The handbook will prove invaluable to all those who ■are iu international life, _