International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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■9BBBB1BP amongst the peoples, some of the privileges that up to now have been jealously defended by them, and to entrust them to a body of an international character but with deeply human and disinterested as well as highly moral ends, which impose themselves to the consideration, the respect and gratitude of the Nations. The mission thus reserved by the Pact to the League of Nations was of a higher, more important nature, so that it could be applied successively to all subjects and to all problems in the politic, economic and social fields, which have their final object to assure peace amongst the peoples, and in this way to promote the happiness of humanity. The work of the League of Nations was thus full of great difficulties and reponsibilities. Although it covered a multitude of complex subjects and problems that have been successively referred to it by various Governments, the activity of the League of Nations forms, in spite of all, a harmonic whole in which the component parts are subjected to the principles and to the rules which derive from its constitution. If in the human body the organism forms by itself a single whole, a single individual, it is not the less true that nature has herself specialized and adapted certain parts of the body to certain functions essential to the life of the human being, the function rendering necessary the organ. In the same way in the organisation of the League of Nations the complexity of the work has rendered necessary the creation of new organs which, without destroying the unity and harmony of the whole, ensure in a more perfect manner the working and the increasing progress of the main organism. It is from this principle and from these necessities that the various international organisms that depend more or less directly on the League of Nations, have been created. It is also to meet one of these necessities and to satisfy these needs that the Italian Government, under the inspiration of its chief, H. E. Benito Mussolini, proposed to the League of Nations, which willingly has accepted the duty, the creation of the most recent International Official Body, The International Educational — 14