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missing. On the part of the different Governments and in particular of those who are members of the League of Nations, there is a moral obligation to participate practically to the development and to the progress of this new organisation.
At a time when the soul and the mind of the crowds in all countries are attracted towards Cinematograph productions which, too often, deviate from the path leading to the general education of the peoples, and which consequently largely discount the moral principles and traditions of civilization, it is well, it is indispensable that the Governments should recognise the high educational and moral power possessed by the new organization to develop sentiments of international solidarity and pacification amongst the peoples by means of a deeper reciprocal knowledge of their customs, traditions, and their way of thought and of living.
This way will lead, slowly but surely, through the exterior diversities of fashion, of tendencies and of customs proper to each country to the formation of a kind of « Common thought)) having for its basis and for its purpose the constant development and the free observation of the principles and of the rules which tend towards the betterment of the material and moral wellbeing of the peoples.
Thanks to the means for action which the administrative Council of the new Institute will place at the disposal of a Directorate full of intelligence, faith and enthusiasm, the role of the Institute will grow and develop at a pace which will depend on the interest accorded to it by the Governments, on the material and financial contributions which they will grant to it, as well as on a collaboration which will not fail to be established on a cordial and confident basis with the other international organisations.
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Being in direct dependence of the League of Nations, the International Educational Cinematographic Institute will necessarily fall under its influence and direction, with a view to contributing effectively to the realization of the objects for which it has been conceived and founded by the League of Nations. In its turn, and reciprocally, the new Institute will exercise a direct influence