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declined to support or sanction an incom grent or one to endoument
purpose. And considering that the social sciences constituted active
program in the Foundation, vhich recognized fully the need for com-
petent researches in those fields, such aid vould seem to have been a
routine affair.
It vould seem that Mr. Stevart played both the active and the
inactive roles. Just one month after Riefler's demand for an ansver,
the Director reported to the Trustees in a manner vhich belied the
econorcist's program and activity. Be said:
Professor Riefler and Professor Mitrany have been working
in their individual vays in the hope of finding a more
promising appraach to their seve~al subjects than is gener-
ally current. As far as I can now see, neither will have
vorkers associated vith him for another year at least, per-
haps longer, for they are dealing vith the most tangled and
difficult subjects, and neither of them is as yet certain
that he has found a clew to the maze.'4
Mr. Stevart vas present, (as he had not been in January). He
evidently did not speak, vhich means he vas party to the staterent. On
the other hand, had the Director ever taken the program up with Mr. Barn-
berger, who was also present, or with the Executive Comaittee, the members
of vhich vere likewise present, he could not have said vhat he did. For
a knovledge of Riefler's program, and the assiduity vith vhich he had
sought to bring it into being, could not lie vith this statement. And,
though Dr. Flexner did not agree vith vhat Mr. Mitrany outlined for him-
self, and withheld an assistant and members from him, the political
scientist also vas wronged by the characterization.
Professor Riefler vas elected a Trustee at that annual meeting,
and thereafter vas to be constant.in attendance at meetings of the Board.