From late 1950 through last year, the Foundation allocated nearly $32 million abroad to promote peace. Almost $20 million was spent in Asia to develop the educational and economic institutions needed to put democracy on a firm basis. In Asia, the Foundation has experimented with indigenous agricultural and technical procedures which, if successful, can be applied to a nation on a larger scale. Equal emphasis has been placed on training leaders and technicians who can disseminate these new methods and ideas.

In India the Foundation has trained thousands of skilled "extension workers" who will go back to their own villages and teach new farming methods. In Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq, and Syria the Foundation has supported projects to train women in home economics, nursing, and other vocational skills.

What Price Investigations?

Direct Foundation grants have enabled refugees from behind the Iron Curtain to establish the Free University of Berlin. The East European Fund helps ex-Soviet refugees toward a full participation in American life, and the Chekhov Publishing House, established in 1951, has reprinted 42 Russian titles suppressed inside the Soviet Union in order to preserve democratic contacts for the Russian people.

Seeking to strengthen free institutions in addition to promoting peace, the Foundation in 1952 set up the Fund for the Republic, with an initial grant of $1,000,000. Under Paul Hoffman, the Fund's first president, later under Clifford P. Case, and now Robert M. Mutchins, the Fund for the Republic has undertaken research into the "extent and nature of the internal Communist menace and its effect on our community and institutions." Last year, the Fund sponsored a survey by Samuel P. Stouffer, professor of Sociology here, on the attitudes of the American people toward political and religious non-conformists. A new survey will analyze the effects of Communist investigations on university faculties.

It is still too early to gauge what results will come from these mammouth philanthropic programs. The Foundation has been engaged in its expanded operations for only five years. Some of its money has, perhaps, been wasted; some bogged down by red tape. But as Hoffman said in 1950, when the Foundation began its stepped-up program, "By patience, persistence, and humility, the Foundation may, in the course of time, be of some use to humanity.'