§ Sir S. Reedasked the Prime Minister what are the activities of the branch of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, to which it is proposed to make 1038W a grant not exceeding £35,000 in the current financial year; to what extent these activities are a duplication of the work of His Majesty's Ambassadors, Ministers, and Consular officers, and of the Ministry of Information and its Press officers abroad; and whether he will give a list of the personnel of the branch, with the salaries, other than the clerical staff and messengers?
§ Mr. ButlerThe activities of the branch of the Royal Institute of International Affairs housed in Balliol College, Oxford, comprise the supply to Departments of His Majesty's Government of weekly reviews of the foreign and Dominions Press. These give accounts, with comment when necessary, of political, social, and economic events and tendencies. The Institute supplies special notes on items requiring immediate action by Departments, memoranda treating particular subjects more fully than is possible in the weekly reviews, answers to general inquiries from Departments, and material provided by the Press-cutting service of the Institute. In general, the Institute acts as both a reference library and a source of information on the background of current problems.
The activities of the Institute are in no sense a duplication of the work of His Majesty's Ambassadors, Ministers, and Consular officers, whose reports and memoranda deal more specifically with events and tendencies as viewed from the particular posts at which they are stationed; while the Institute surveys the whole field and co-ordinates material from the wider angle of foreign and Dominions affairs in general. Nor are they a duplication of the work of the Ministry of Information and its Press officers abroad. For, apart from the consideration given above, the Institute performs the important work of studying and summarising the whole of the Press in enemy territory.
A list is appended showing the staff, with salaries, other than clerical staff and messengers, employed at the Institute in connection with the activities in question. This list is furnished by courtesy of the Council of the Institute. I should add that the University of Oxford has made available a sum of £5,400 a year for work performed for the Government, while the Institute expects out of its own resources to contribute nearly £6,000 a year to the 1039W same end. His Majesty's Government greatly appreciate this generous aid, which reduces by a corresponding total the amount of the cost to public funds.
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THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. Organisation at 18th November, 1939 Specialist Staff. Salary. Director: £ Dr. Arnold Toynbee 1,325 Assistant to Director 500 Sub.-Editors: Miss V. M. Boulter, Miss M. K. Grindrod (see below under Italy), Miss E. Pares (see below under Poland and Baltic States). France: Hon. George Peel 200 William McC. Stewart 700 Mrs. Raymond Johnes 208 Mrs. D. Loch (voluntary) — Germany and Czechoslovakia: Dr. J. A. Hawgood 800 T. H. Marshall 800 Prof. Norman Baynes (voluntary) — Miss M. Lambert 260 Miss Sheila Grant Duff 300 Miss P. O'Mahony 300 Miss M. Dudley 156 Switzerland: Miss Eileen Stiff 325 Holland and Belgium: Prof. G. N. Clark (paid by University) 1,000 Dr. M. A. Thompson 600 Mrs. Clement Jones (voluntary) — Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden and Denmark): L. J. Sturge 600 Mrs. Sturge (voluntary) — Miss Agnes Hicks 550 Mrs. M. Sandbach 300 S.E. Europe: Prof. R. W. Seton-Watson 1,000 Mrs. Seton-Watson (voluntary) — Prof. David Mitrany 1,000 R. G. D. Laffan 800 C. A. Macartney (paid by University) 600 Prof. R. M. Dawkins (part time) 400 Miss K. Leathern 260 Poland and Baltic States: Prof. W. J. Rose (£560 paid by-School of Slavonic Studies) 540 Mrs. Rose 300 Prof. H. J. Paton (paid by University) 1,000 Miss Elizabeth Pares 300 Italy and Italian Colonies: Mr. Harold Stannard 700 Mrs. Arnold Toynbee (half time) 130 Miss M. K. Grindrod (part time, see above under Sub-Editors) 325 F. T. Prince 275 Spain and Portugal: Prof. W. C. Atkinson 800 Mrs. A. T. K. Grant 300
Specialist Staff. Salary. Latin America: £ Dr. R. A. Humphreys 600 Godfrey Scheele (seconded from British Museum) 350 Miss L. K. Duff 260 U.S.S.R.: Prof, Sir Bernard Pares 1,000 B. H. Sumner (part paid by University) 800 Dr. Violet Conolly 500 Dr. Margaret Miller 500 Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan: A. Cecil Edwards (part time, voluntary) — H. C. Hony (part time, voluntary) — Mrs. A. C. Edwards (voluntary) — Harold Seager 300 Arab World and North Africa: H. Beeley 500 Dr. R. Levy 900 Miss G. H. Stern 400 A. H. Hourani 260 M. W. Dobson 208 Canon Danby (voluntary) — United States: Prof. C. K. Webster 1,000 Mrs. C. K. Webster (voluntary) — Prof, D. W. Brogan 900 Mrs. L. F. Vranek 200 Lady Constance Howard 208 Far East: E. W. Mead 800 G. F. Hudson (£500 paid by University) 600 F. C. Jones 300 British Empire: Prof. Sir Alfred Zimmern (paid by University) 1,000 Dominions: Prof. C. A. W. Manning 1,000 Mrs. C. A. W. Manning (voluntary) — Colonies {British and Others): Dr. Lucy Mair 550 International Economics: Prof. A. G. B. Fisher 1,200 International Law: Prof. J. L. Brierly (paid by University) 1,000 International Institutions: Prof. H. J. Paton (see above under Poland) — War Origins: Prof. C. K. Webster (see above under United States) — Roman Catholic World: Dr. N. Micklem 25 Comintern: Miss Elizabeth Pares (see under Poland) — Jewry: H. Beeley (see under Arab World) — W. G. Ettinghausen (voluntary) — Administration. Acting Secretary: Miss M. E. Cleeve *600 Chief Clerk and One Bookkeeper: Mr. E. J. Brown *525 *Seven-eighths chargeable to His Majesty's Government.