RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

218 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
tion assistance carry on research for the purpose
of offering objective data upon international
questions to lay groups. In addition to publication
of research they stimulate public interest
through discussion, study groups, and conferences.
Increased reliance upon the expert and technical
adviser by governmental authorities is a
most significant development of the past decade.
The Foundation has been in a position to make
such services available in a number of instances,
and there have been some notable results from
these undertakings. The use of factual material
gathered by experts is being made the basis of
negotiation to an increasing extent. The double
taxation study made under the auspices of the
Fiscal Committee of the League of Nations and
financed by the Foundation is a case in point.
Through the promotion of these two types of
enterprise, i.e., the stimulating of more intelligent
public opinion by a variety of activities
and the furnishing of experts for specific planning
or research, the Foundation program in international
relations has achieved some results, and
it is hoped that more will be accomplished in the
future,
The organizations now assisted are of several
types—official and
non-official, academic and
non-academic, international and
national in
structure. The League of Nations is the only
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