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At the meeting reserved for the consideration of Broadcasting, M. Belime-Coeuroy, First Secretary of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, gave a brilliant exposition of this question and indicated the important role that women can and should play in relation to it.
The Secretariat of the League of Nations was represented by Miss Kallia, of the Section of Intellectual Cooperation, and the International Labour Office by M. Cabrini, Director of the Bureau in Rome. The Presidents of the " International Commission on the Social and Educational use of Films and Broadcasting " and "the Liaison Committee of International Major Organizations " had appointed Mme Dreyfus-Barney as their delegate.
The financial crisis which ravages the entire world prevented certain members of our Commission from travelling. Nevertheless the countries where the cinematograph industry is developed, such as Germany, the United States, France, Great Britain; Italy, Holland, Sweden, and those which, though producing few films, attach a capital importance to the Cinema: Danemark, Greece, Ireland, Roumania, Switzerland and others were represented. Very fortunately, certain Delegates from the Orient were present, for there especially the cinema, able either to educate or to incite to disorder, raises grave problems. This was shown by Miss Kyuin San Kao, the Chinese delegate, Miss Fatimeh Arfa, Persian delegate, and by Mademoiselle Karpeles who has lived in the Far East for a number of years.
Technicians and educators were in the majority at the Conference. These diverse elements permitted a very extended exchange of view, as the reports presented and discussed at the meetings bear witness, reports which can be read further on, M. de Feo having thought it well to publish an account of our work in this revue which reaches a vast public. In this way, the Director of the Institute will have aided both the preparation and the success of the Conference as well as the continuance of our effort.
Although the delegates were engrossed in the meetings, they did not fail to appreciate all that the Institute, the Italian Government, the National Council of Italian Women and the sister organization did to make their journey and their stay in Italy unforgettable.
We shall always remember our assembly room at the Villa Torlonia, silent, spacious, with lofty windows opening on a beautiful park; also the reception given by the Governor of Rome at the Capitol, its majestic grandeur heightened by peerless works of art; the fete at Frascati, at the villa Falconieri, to which we were invited by His Excellency M. Rocco to enjoy a spectacle of eighteenth-century dances. There, on the bank of a small lake surrounded by cypresses were reflected in pastel tones the costumes of the dancers against a background of blue Italian sky. But a memory still more precious than these scenes of enchantment is the welcome of our hosts.
In pursuance of the subject of our conference, we visited the National Institute of the L.U.C.E. whose admirable activity has been directed for years by M. de Feo under the persona] encouragement of the Duce.