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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1966







International Affairs

The Foundation intensified efforts to foster cooperation within the Atlantic area and between the Atlantic countries and the developed countries of the Western Pacific. Interchange of scholars with Eastern Europe was continued and further grants made to improve understanding of world affairs in the United States. Projects in the cultural and urban fields also were emphasized.

Atlantic Cooperation

Following Oxford University's landmark self-study by the Franks Commission of Inquiry, which urged greater attention to graduate education in the natural and social sciences, the Foundation granted $4.5 million for the transformation of Iffley College, now to be known as Wolfson College, into a resident graduate institution emphasizing the sciences. Headed by Sir Isaiah Berlin, the college will house fifty to sixty fellows and 250 to 350 graduate students, of whom two-thirds will be scientists.

The Foundation also made a grant of $3 million to St. Antony's College, Oxford, a graduate institution of foreign studies that is a prime source of faculty for British universities and has trained students from some fifty countries for careers in foreign offices, international business, and research. The college, which has concentrated on Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, will extend its program to the study of contemporary China. As in the case of Wolfson College, the Foundation's grant for St. Antony's is to be matched by funds from British sources.

Continuing the Foundation's long-term efforts to help strengthen training of European social scientists and improve research on basic social and economic problems, a $400,000 grant was made to an Italian-American committee that will make research grants, conduct courses, and work with government, universities, and other institutions. Further assistance was given to the Free University of Berlin, to strengthen American studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute, and to the Institute for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research, in Vienna, for training and research in sociology, economics, and political science.

In Italy, the Foundation granted $300,000 to help establish the Institute of International Affairs as the country's major private organization for study and discussion of international issues. The institute, in which business, professional, and academic leaders are taking part, cooperates with similar institutions in other countries.

Extending its support for economic research and training in Greece, the Foundation granted $530,000 to Harvard University for further strengthening of the Athens Center of Planning and Economic Research. The center, supported by Foundation grants since its formation in 1961, last year completed the country's first Five Year Development Plan.

For programs to help improve English-language training in secondary schools and colleges in Spain and Italy, respectively, grants were made to Georgetown and Cornell Universities.

To help enrich its instructional program by expanded research, the European Institute of Business Administration, in France, received $150,000. In cooperation with American universities, the institute will study such topics as comparative marketing customs, consumer behavior, and sales management and relations between American companies' overseas subsidiaries and their European counterparts.

Two institutions that help inform British, European, and American leaders and the public of developments in the Atlantic region—Political and Economic Planning and the Royal Institute of International Affairs—received additional support for research and publications on British relations with the Common Market and other European institutions.

The Pacific Area

To help bring Japan's skills to bear on world urban problems and enable Japanese experts to profit from