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on the part of the League, the Council was able, under the Financial Regulations, to accept the offer, and this the Rapporteur proposed it should do. The Council agreed and passed the following resolution :— " The Council —• . " (a) Accepts the offer of an exhibition of graphs made by the Danish Government 011 behalf of the Otto Monsted Foundation ; " (b) Approves the programme and the conditions for that exhibition agreed upon by the representative of the Danish Government and the Committee of Statistical Experts ; " (c) Requests the Secretary-General to express its thanks to the Danish Government and the Otto Monsted Foundation for their generous offer." Exchange-control : Report submitted by a Committee composed of Members of the Economic and Financial Committees. An important and valuable report on exchange-control, the work of certain members of the Economic and Financial Committees, was issued in July last, and submitted to the Council under coyer of a report by the representatives of Poland and Sweden. No comment is necessary, as under resolution of the Council the report was transmitted to the Assembly (Document C. 295, 1938, 11, A.) Economic and Financial Organizations : Report of the Co-ordination Committee. This important question, consideration of which involves the future well-being of the economic and financial work of the League of Nations, was dealt with in some detail in my report on the one hundred and first session of the Council. The task of the Co-ordination Committee was to prepare material for consideration by the Assembly, and the report is in fact an Assembly document (A. 16, 1938, II.) Here I need do no more than refer you to the brief comments made by the Council's Rapporteurs, the representatives of Poland and Sweden, and to the resolution passed by the Council under which the report is transmitted to the Assembly (see Document C. 294, 1938, 11, A). " The Council — . " Takes note of the report of the Co-ordination Committee on the economic and financial questions contained in the agenda of the nineteenth ordinary session of the Assembly, " Decides to transmit this report to the Assembly." Intellectual Co-operation. The reports under consideration by the Council were no less than five in number, i.e. : The Report on the Work of the Twentieth Plenary Session of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation (C. 253, M. 150, 1938, XII) ; A report on Modern Means of Spreading Information utilized in the Cause of Peace (A. 19, 1938, XII) ; A Report on International Competitions in Architecture and Associated Arts (C. 250, M. 148, 1938, XII) ; The Report of the Governing Body of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation (C. 247, M. 145, 1938, XII); and, lastly, The Report of the Council's Rapporteur, the representative of France (Document C. 284, 1938, XII). . , r , As it is the custom of one of the Assembly Committees to deal exhaustively with the work of the intellectual co-operation organization, I will content myself with drawing attention to the resolution of the Council, reading as follows : — " The Council— " Having taken note of the report of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation on the work of its Twentieth Session, together with the reports annexed thereto (resolutions and other documents), " Approves the proposals formulated by its Rapporteur on the various particular points to which he considered attention should be drawn ; " Instructs the Secretary-General to ensure that the provisions embodied in certain of its resolutions are carried out; " Takes note of the report of the governing body of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation on the results of its fifteenth session, of the report of the Auditor of the League of Nations on the administration of the Institute during the financial year 1937, and of the Budget for 1939 as approved by the governing body ; " Transmits to the Assembly all the documents issued by the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation and the governing body of the Institute of Intellectual Co-operation." Health Committee : Report on the Work of the Twenty-eighth Session. The Health Committee's report is Document C. 222, M. 124, 1938, 111, whilst my own report to the Council is Document C. 258, 1938, 111. No formal resolution was passed by the Council, which however, approved of the setting up of two bodies —(1) a group of experts to prepare a report for the use of health administrations in connection with health indices ; and (2) a sub-committee for the unification of methods of preparation of galenical drugs in connection with the International Unification of Pharmacopoeiae. Actually the various reports of the Health Committee are made

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