RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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and publication. The American Council works
closely with universities and with other research
and educational organizations. Language, history,
and art courses preparing for life in Eastern
countries and for understanding the problems
of Eastern peoples have been introduced into
American universities. A
general interest in
Pacific affairs is being stimulated by the objective
interpretation of current events in periodicals
and other publications. The
fortnightly,
Far Eastern Survey, is published in New York
City by the American Council.
A grant of #50,000 made in 1935 toward the
research program of the Council on Foreign Relations
will continue aid from the Foundation for
four years. The council, situated in New York
City, has by virtue of its type of membership
unusual opportunity to promote
intelligent
thinking .upon and formulation of American
foreign policy. Membership is limited by invitation
to those thought to have a positive contribution
to make to the council's program through
their scholarship or experience. The research activities
of the council include financing and publication
of individual researches, preparation and
publication of certain handbooks, organization of
study groups, conferences of specialists to consider
critical problems of national policy still in
the formative stage, and the dispensing of in-
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