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1924 he published a number of valuable digests of documents and other information on

disarmament, security, the World Court, reparations, etc., as well as a periodical called

the Bulletin of International News. In 1927 he became Honorary Information Secretary of

the RIIA, and in 1930 the Institute bought out all his information services for £3500 and

made them into the Information Department of the Institute, still in charge of Mr.

Wheeler-Bennett. Since the annual Documents on International Affairs resumed

publication in 1944, it has been in charge of Monica Curtis (who may be related to Lionel

Curtis), while Mr. Wheeler-Bennett has been busy elsewhere. In 1938-1939 he was

Visiting Professor of International Relations at the University of Virginia: in 1939-1944

he was in the United States in various propaganda positions with the British Library of

Information and for two years as Head of the British Political Warfare Mission in New

York. Since 1946, he has been engaged in editing, from the British side, an edition of

about twenty volumes of the captured documents of the German Foreign Ministry. He has

also lectured on international affairs at New College, a connection obviously made

through the Milner Group.

The Survey of International Affairs has been financed since 1925 by an endowment of

£20,000 given by Sir Daniel Stevenson for this purpose and also to provide a Research

Chair of International History at the University of London. Arnold J. Toynbee has held

both the professorship and the editorship since their establishment. He has also been

remunerated by other grants from the Institute. When the first major volume of the

Survey, covering the years 1920-1923, was published, a round-table discussion was held

at Chatham House, 17 November 1925, to criticize it. Headlam-Morley was chairman,

and the chief speakers were Curtis, Wyndham, Gathorne-Hardy, Gilbert Murray, and

Toynbee himself.

Since the Survey did not cover British Commonwealth affairs, except in a general

fashion, a project was established for a parallel Survey of British Commonwealth

Relations. This was financed by a grant of money from the Carnegie Corporation of New

York. The task was entrusted to W. K. Hancock, a member of All Souls since 1924 and

Chichele Professor of Economic History residing at All Souls since 1944. He produced

three substantial volumes of the Survey in 1940-1942, with a supplementary legal chapter

in volume I by R. T. E. Latham of All Souls and the Milner Group.

The establishment of the Stevenson Chair of International History at London,

controlled by the RIIA, gave the Croup the idea of establishing similar endowed chairs in

other subjects and in other places. In 1936, Sir Henry Price gave £20,000 to endow for

seven years a Chair of International Economics at Chatham House. This was filled by

Allan G. B. Fisher of Australia.

In 1947 another chair was established at Chatham House: the Abe Bailey

Professorship of Commonwealth Relations. This was filled by Nicholas Mansergh, who

had previously written a few articles on Irish affairs and has since published a small

volume on Commonwealth affairs.

By the terms of the foundation, the Institute had a voice in the election of professors to

the Wilson Chair of International Politics at the University College of Wales,

Aberystwyth. As a result, this chair has been occupied by close associates of the Group

from its foundation. The following list of incumbents is significant:

A. E. Zimmern, 1919-1921

C. K. Webster, 1922-1932

J. D Greene, 1932-1934

J. F. Vranek, (Acting), 1934-1936

E. H. Carr, 1936 to now

Three of these names are familiar. Of the others, Jiri Vranek was secretary to the

International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (to be discussed in a moment). Jerome

Greene was an international banker close to the Milner Group. Originally Mr. Greene had

been a close associate of J. D. Rockefeller, but in 1917 he shifted to the international

banking firm Lee, Higginson, and Company of Boston. In 1918 he was American

secretary to the Allied Maritime Transport Council in London (of which Arthur Salter

was general secretary). He became a resident of Toynbee Hall and established a

relationship with the Milner Group. In 1919 he was secretary to the Reparations

Commission of the Peace Conference (a post in which his successor was Arthur Salter in

1920-1922). He was chairman of the Pacific Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations

in 1929-1932. This last point will be discussed in a moment. Mr. Greene was a trustee

and secretary of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913-1917, and was a trustee of the

Rockefeller Institute and of the Rockefeller General Education Board in 1912-1939.

The study groups of the RIIA are direct descendants of the roundtable meetings of the

Round Table Group. They have been defined by Stephen King-Hall as "unofficial Royal