According to a list published by the Inter hational Central Bureau, the following countries were represented at Rome by official delegations or delegates named with the approval of their governments: Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Chile, Costa Rica, Danzig, Egypt, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Irak, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, .Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Siam, Spain. Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. The United States appears to have been represented unofficially by Mr. Kirby and several other American delegates. The International central Bureau for Joy and Work is supported almost entirely from German sources and its managing director is Dr. Manthey, a German. It publishes a lavish, and what must be a very expensive, monthly periodical called FREUDE UND ARBEIT, a copy of which is enclosed. The bureau also has begun publication of a research series the first issue of which is also enclosed. On page 51 of this periodical, which is entitled DAS NEUE PROTOKOLL, will be found an account in English dealing with the organization of leisure time in the United States. |