Abstract

PITA-GONZALEZ, Alexandra. From Paris to Havana. The International (American) Center of Intellectual Cooperation. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2022, n.spe2, pp.135-160.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2022.1e.77713.

Between 1940 and 1945, the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation ceased to function because of the vicissitudes of the Second World War. In this situation, the American countries proposed to move the institute’s seat from Paris to Havana, where the International Center was officially founded but its operation never materialized. By using the correspondence of the Mexican intellectual and diplomat Alfonso Reyes, the article shows the changing positions within the Latin American bloc, between those defending an American proposal (an independent institute) and those clinging to the earlier universalist view (a SDN-dependent institute). Knowledge of this situation created by the war helps us to understand the reactivation of the complex balance between Latin America, Europe and the United States.

Keywords : Alfonso Reyes; Mariano Brull; Miguel Ozoiro de Almeida; James T. Shotwell; Intellectual Cooperation; League of Nations; Second World War.

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