Prewar intellectual cooperation committees had spread to thirty-eight countries by 1937

Evidence

By 1937, thirty-eight National Committees of Intellectual Cooperation (NCICs) were in place. The reach of the system itself was global, as NCICs sprouted in Argentina, China, Cuba, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, and Syria. Experts from affiliated institutions were commissioned to write memoranda on assigned themes and questions. Once the memoranda had all been submitted (they were often quite voluminous) a general rapporteur, appointed by the ISC and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, would summarize the main points of view in a kick-off lecture setting the stage for the discussions during the conference. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 369

Categorization

• CANDY: “Thirty-eight national committees across the globe by 1937” is a clean, tweetable fact about how far interwar intellectual cooperation reached.