"The grant is not being used as an administrative weapon to integrate each department," Schelling asserts. "It would be easy for the committee to use the budgetary process to manipulate its own ideas, but it has resisted that temptation."

But the question is whether or not the grant will result in departmental co-ordination in the long run. Indirectly, Schelling thinks the Ford grant will somewhat integrate the various centers through the nine professorships. It ties the University together more, he says, because these professors, split between various departments, can remind each other what is going on elsewhere. Four of these professorships went to the Law School, one to the School of Education, and four to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Public Administration. So far the grant has provided professorships, or split professorships, to Lipset, Richard A. Musgrave, Professor of Economics, and Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law. Deutsch will receive another chair next year, and M. Crozier, a visiting Professor in Social Relations from France, has a temporary professorship this spring term.

But still less than half of the professorships have been designated, and the international studies building is not under construction. Therefore the Ford grant has had little chance to co-ordinate the different departments and centers in international studies yet.

One thing that the Center, the DAS, and all the departments have in common is lack of space. In the past, the main interest in international studies has centered around the Russian Research Center, the International Affairs Center, and Eastern studies focusing on Chine. But Latin American studies have spread considerably in the last two years, and the Japanese Department has expanded with the return of former Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer. "When the new building is constructed," Dean Ford remarks, "one thing is for sure: there will be a scrap for space."

Now, less than half the International Affairs people operate from 6 Divinity Avenue. The rest are scattered in the ROTC Building, at 1737 Cambridge Street, and on Sumner Road. "The new building will be more important for having the entire International Affairs Center together than for having us near the other centers," muses Schelling.

Though no one will deny that the new building will help extensively by bringing together various departments and their libraries, there are nevertheless some reservations. "The building will serve the University's purposes well," says Mason, "but it may also blur the autonomy of the Center."

The autonomy of the Center, however, is rapidly becoming an irrelevant issue. Any defined functions or corporate feelings were swallowed by the maze of research projects that brought to the Center a swarm of associates from various disciplines. These, in turn, have scattered to four different locations. While the Fellows have moved out in the University from their enclave at the Center, the University has moved into the Center and expanded it past the bounds of simple autonomy