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Excerpt from The Value of Knowledge in International Relations: An Address Given by the Right Hon. Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K. G
And then another experience I had was this. You may not at first see exactly how it is relevant to this movement, but I will explain why I think it worth mention. While I was in Washington there took place an International Industrial Conference organised under the League of Nations. America, for reasons which we need not record, was not represented at that Industrial Conference, and it was therefore very incomplete, but in spite of that it was interesting. There were delegates Of employers and delegates Of trade union's - including both men and women - and I saw something of them during and at the close of the Conference; and the way they spoke Of the work Of that Conference had a ring of solid interest and satisfaction with their experience that was very remark able and very convincing. I came to the conclusion that that International Conference must have had a very greateffect in improving international understanding, a much greater effect probably than many a conference which is called with the direct Object Of promoting good inter national understanding. The object Of that conference was industrial. I think it was precisely because it was called to discuss not the political relations between nations but certain aspects Of industrial life, the labour question in different countries; and because people came together to discuss a practical part Of international life, to compare their difficulties, to endeavour to arrive at practical co operation on one aspect of international life, that the conference had solid results. Now, does not that apply to university women and men coming together? They come together not necessarily with a direct political Object; they come together on the common ground Of university life and work; and having this practical basis which is common to them all, they have a starting point which gives them more opportunity Of understanding each other - each other's minds - than if they merely met for a political conference to promote good international under standing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
