LETTER TO MR. ALLEN W. DULLES FROM(Sanitized)

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• Publication Date: September 24, 1952
• Content Type: LETTER

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OF
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
1906 FLORIDA AVENUE, N.W.
WASHINGTON 9, D.C.
September 24, 1952
Mr. Allen W. Dulles
1308 29th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
Owing to a typographical error, some of the
figures on page 4 of the supplementary letter to the
Ford Foundation of which I recently sent you a copy
were incorrectly transposed. In order to present the
picture properly, these figures have been corrected
and page 4 has been redone. The corrected version is
enclosed. I should appreciate it if you would substitute
this for the fourth page of the version which you have.
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Enclosure
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It may be noted that only in Washington could this kind off' Faculty
be easily assembled. Location in Washington is indeed one of the School's
great assets. Research facilities and possibilities of contact with the
Government departments make it invaluable to students and a Mecca to visiting
professors and lecturers. Only in Washington would it have been possible to
hold with such success the Summer Session and Conference on Southeast Asia
described above. Only in Washington moreover could an Advisory Committee
be established of such distinction as that which serves the School. Many of
the members of the Committee hold high positions in the Government, and yet
find time to take a genuine interest in the work of the School. All of them
have been unsparing in their willingness to give time and thought to its
problems.
A significant development of the last year resulted from the con-
sideration given by the members of the Faculty in the course of several
meetings held during the first half year to long-range planning for the
future of the School. As a result of the discussions in these meetings,
individual suggestions were submitted which were subsequently reduced to a
comprehensive memorandum dealing with such questions as objectives, enrich-
ment of the curriculum both with respect to functional and area courses, the
possible erection of area institutes, collateral programs of research and
publication, etc. A copy of the memorandum is attached for your more detailed
information. Although it is appreciated that such a document cannot be
regarded as definitive and is necessarily subject to changing needs and cir-
cumstances, the memorandum nevertheless constitutes a useful working basis,
and steps are being taken to implement its recommendations as rapidly as means
and conditions permit. One point in the memorandum concerned, for example,
the urgent need for a full-time Professor in the field of American Foreign
Relations and Policy. This need has been met by the addition to the Faculty
of Graham H. Stuart, long-time Professor of Political Science in Stanford
University. Dr. Stuart joined the School at the opening of the 1952 Summer
Session and will continue through the coming year as Visiting Professor of
American Foreign Relations.
Including the contributions already mentioned toward the work of
the Summer Session and Conference on Southeast Asia, gifts for the Foundation
and the School during the last fiscal year have totalled $199,023. Of this
amount $63,150 were received from business corporations and $135,873 from
individuals and foundations. Included in the latter figure is the second in-
stallment of $60,000 under the five year grant from the Carnegie Corporation.
Mrs. Elsa Whitin Mason, a member of the School's Advisory Committee, transfer-
red during the year shares of stock valued at $150,000, the School to have the
unrestricted use of the income accruing from these shares in the form of
dividends. Since the date of this gift, February 12, 1952, this income has
amounted to $6,250 which is included in individual gifts. Contributions to
the Foundation for purposes other than the School are not included.
So far as the foregoing figures indicate a growing realization of the
School's worth, they are distinctly encouraging. On the other hand, the heavy
dependence on donations from business is a matter of concern. Although the
activity of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation has resulted in more num-
erous gifts of this description than in preceding years, the average contribu-
tion has decreased in size and it appears highly probable that this source of in-
come will be gradually less productive from this point forward. If the business
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SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
September 2, 1952
Mr, Allen W. Dulles
1308 29th Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
I thought that you might be interested in seeing
the enclosed copy of a covering letter from President Bronk
and supplementary statement to the Ford Foundation concerning
the application for a grant of funds which was made originally
in dune 1951. These are all self-explanatory and need no
particular comment. I am not sending the attachments referred
to in the body of the statement, as they already are familiar
to you.
The meeting at which the application is to be
considered is scheduled for some time in October so that in
all probability a decision will h v een reached before the
fall term has been long under way.
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September 2, 1952
Carl B. Spaeth
Director
Division of Overseas Activities
The Ford Foundation
914 East Green Street
Pasadena 1, California
Dear Mr. Spaeth:
Te at the F.opkins have been very entl-aisir stic about the
association with the University of the School of Advanced International
Studies. I have followed the progress of the School during the last
three years writh the keenest interest. Dean Thayer is in constant
touch with me concernirv the School's affairs, and has discussed with
me at various times the application for a grant of funds 1rhich is
pending with the ford Foundation. This application is one with -rhich
I wish to associate myself completely. It has my hearty endorsement.
It is my firm conviction'that the School has a tremendous potential
for valuable achievement, that its aims and objectives are directly
in line with those which the Foundation would wish to encourage, and
that the requested grant is in every T~ray well justified. I earnestly
trust that it may receive your favorable consideration.
?ay I elaborate one further -point in this connection? All
of us have been greatly impressed by the outstanding success of the
School's summer program, a _Drogram which involved a Summer Session
and Conference dealing with the problems of Southeast Asia. If this
success proved anything, it indicated the importance of continuing
work in this area. I am accordingly distressed that the lack of
funds for the purpose makes it impossible for the School to carry on
an adequate Southeast Asia program this fall, either in substantive
courses or in language instruction. Such enforced curtailment seems
most deplornble.. In giving sympathetic thought to the application
as a whole, I should like to suggest therefore that the Pord
Foundation consider the possibility of making p2O,000 immediately
available. This would meet an urgent need and would prevent the
interruption of a program of demonstrated value.
Sincerely yours,
De tlev W. Bronk
President
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Carl B. Spaeth
Director
Division of Overseas Activities
The Ford Foundation
914 East Green Street
Pasadena 1, California
August 29, 1952
Dear Spaeth:
On June 14, 1951, the Foreign Service Educational Foundation
submitted an application to the Ford Foundation for a grant of funds.
The grant requested was intended for use in the continuing development
and expansion of the School of Advanced International Studies and in
carrying on the associated program of the Foreign Service Educational
Foundation. Since this application is now more than a year old, and in
line with the conversations which I had with you and Tilton Katz in
Pasadena last month, it seems desirable at this time to submit a supple-
mentary statement. The purpose of this statement is to present such
additional information as may be necessary to clarify and bring up to
date the substance of the original application and of the subsequent
report on recent developments which was addressed to Dr,. Howard It. Tolley
on January 30, 1952.
A few words may be desirable in the first place in order to
recapitulate briefly the current relationship between the School of
Advariced International Studies and the Foreign Service Educational
Foundation. During the first six years of its existence the School
operated as a legally incorporated institution under the Immediate
sponsorship of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation, a non-profit
organization which had been established for that express purpose. ;ith
the incorporation of the School into The Johns Ho- k~ns University on
September 15, 1950, it lost its separate legal identity and became an
integral mart of the University. In this respect the School is on
precisely the same basis as other Schools of the University, for example,
the School of Medicine and the School of h=ygiene and Public Health. The
only differer;ce is due to the continuing location pf the School in
Washington iistead of in 7altimore. In this connection there is enclosed
a copy of The Johns Hopkins University Circular (Information for
Prospective Students), which indicates the place of the School 14 the
University set-up. You may note particularly the statements and
descriptions on pages 27 and 50 of that publications
Notwithstanding the affiliation of the School with the University,
the 'oundationv s not dissolved. This point, you will recall, was
covered in the formal agreement between the Foreign Service Educational
Foundation, the School of Advanced International Studies, and The Johns
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Hopkins University, August 1, 1950, which was included as Exhibit 11 in the
original application of June 14, 1951. The Foundation has continued its
important functions as a friend. of the School, both in the raisin. of funds
end in the conduct of collateral programs in association with the work of
the School, such as the sponsorship of special lecture series and of con-
ferences for business executives and government officials. Almost all of
the financial support which the School receives from corporations, and a
great deal of that which comes from individuals, is due to the energy of
the Foundation. At the present time, therefore, gifts to the School may
be made either through the Foundation for transmission to the University or
direct to the University for disbursement in accordance with the wishes of
the donors. Gifts for the specific use of the Foreign Service Educational
Foundation are of course retained by the Foundation for its own purposes.
In the second place, some amplification is perhaps desirable in
regard to the method of selecting students and the consequent make-up of
the student body. The School operates entirely on a graduate basis, and
is small. No more than about seventy-five students could be handled com-
fortably under present conditions. Combining high academic standards with
a practical approach to current world problems, the aim of the School is
to provide this limited number of qualifieci students with a type of instruc-
tion and training designed to prepare them for careers in the international
field. The large volume of inquiries received is therefore screened. care-
fully on the basis of high undergraduate accomplishment, recommendations
from instructors, and apparent suitability for international '.pork. Save
in exceptional instances, personal interviews are required and in these
interviews, which always include several members of the Faculty, stress is
ploccdom poise, personality, and intelligent interest in the international
scene. In the final result, so far as the coming year is concerned, the
School has admitted 69 students, 56 men and 13 women, representing 45
undergraduate institutions in this country and 6 abroad. The American
students claim 23 states as their homes.. It should also be mentioned that
6 students who had been admitted for this fall have been temporarily
deflected by the subsequent award of Fulbri{;ht grants for study abroad.
A number of foreign students attend the School each year. During next year
they will number 6 from 5 different countries.
In the letter of January 30, 1952, to Dr. Howard R. Tolley,
reference was made to the Summer Session, in which it was planned to stress
Southeast Asia anal to hold an accor:manying Conference on the topic of
"Southeast Asia in the Coming .. 7 It is gratifying to report that
both the Summer Session and the Conference were very successful. During,
the Summer Session of eight weeks fort-six students were afforded a unique
opportunity to choose among five substantive courses dealing with political,
economic, geographic and cultural aspects of the area, and with the influence
of Dar'dhist thought. The Conference was held during the week of August 11
and brought together nearly two hundred invited guests from universities,
Government departments, and the international business community. From
the area itself came representatives of the Southeast Asia universities to
participate in the discussions, among them the President of the University
of Indonesia, the Rector of the University of Rangoon, and the Dean of the
Faculty of Political Science from the Chulalongkorn University of Bangkok.
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The roster was completed by a Professor of Geography from the University of
i.Talaya, a member of the Faculty of Law from the University of Hanoi, and the
head of the Department of Sociology from the University of the Philippines
The twenty-two papers presented at the Conference will be published in book
form early in the new year by the Johns Hopkins Press. A copy of the com-
plete program is attached for your information. The Conference and the
Simmer Session were made possible by the generous help of the Rockefeller
Foundation and of a number of individuals who had become interested in the
project through their appreciation of the area's importance.
iiention also was made in the report to Dr. Tolley of plans for
the inauguration of a program of African studies at the School. Although
no funds are immediately in sight for a complete program, the area has
seemed to be of sufficient interest to warrant the inception of one course
of an introductory nature which will be entitled "The Background of Modern
Africa." This course will be offered in the fall of 1952 and will run
throughout the year. It is hoped that enough interest may be shown to
justify the establishment of further work in the African area at an early
date.
These references to course work in the fields of southeast Asia,
and Africa suggest the need for brief comment on the reasoning behind the
development of area studies at the School. In the light of the avower'
objectives of the School, and particularly in view of the expressed a~.m of
preparing young men and women for careers in the international field, the
School feels a special obligation to give adequate instruction in the con-
temporary problems of the various regions of the world. The procedure
usually has been to build this instruction around courses concerned on the
one hand with political factors and on the other with economic, but always
with the stress on contemporary problems. Anthropological, ethnological
and cultural backgrounds receive attention only to the e:Itent that they may
be essential to a proper understanding of the current scene, a factor which
varies considerably in the areas treated. In connection with the area
studies opportunities are afforded for the intensive study of the pertinent
languages. Mastery of a modern foreign language is a basic requirement for
the degree of Piaster of Arts. In the final result the substantive curricu-
lum of the School may be described as consisting of a hard core of functional
courses in the fields of international relations and diplomacy, international
law and organization, and international economics, surrounded by rou?s of
area, courses which are organized along the lines just indicated.
Under the conditions outlined in the preceding paragraphs, it seems
clear that a special type of Faculty is desirable. The small size of the
School would make it impracticable to give at any one time all the course
offerings listed in the School illetin and projected for the future. The
offerings as a 1.4hole may be regarded in fact as a reservoir to be drawm
against in accordance with need. Some courses are basic, showm by experience
to be of constantly recurring value; others, although equally important to a
School of this nature, do not call for annual repetition. A small full-
time Faculty is concerned largely with the courses in the first category,
while a larger part-time group is available to deal with the others as
required.
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It may be noted that only in ', dashin#;ton could this kind of Faculty
be easily assembled. Location in 71ashington is indeed one of the School's
great assets. Research facilities and possibilities of contact with the
Government departments make it invaluable to students and a :iecca to visiting
professors and lecturers. Only in Jashington would it have been possible to
hold with such success the Sum- er Session and Conference on Southeast Asia
described above. Only in ..ashington moreover could an Advisory Committee
be established of such distinction as that which serves the School. many of
the members of the Committee hold high positions in the Government, and yet
find time to take a genuine interest in the work of the School. All of them
have been unsparing in their willingness to Give time and thought to its
problems.
A significant development of the last year resulted from the con-
sideration ,given by the members of the Faculty in the course of several
meetings held during the first half-year to long,-range -planning for the
future of the School. As a result of the discussions in these meetings,
individual suggestions were submitted which were subsequently reduced to V.
comprehensive memorandum dealing with such questions as objectives, enrich-
ment of the curriculum both with respect to functional and area cources, t'-).e
possible erection of area institutes, collateral programs of research a'.id
publication, etc. A copy of the memorandum is attached for your rior: dotailed
information. AlthouF;h it is a,.preeiated that such a document cannot c,c
regarded as definitive and is necessarily subject to chaning needs and- c:9.rcum
stances, the memorandum nevertheless constitutes a useful working basis, and
steps are being taken to implement its recomNend.ations as rapidly as means
and conditions permit, One point in the memorandum concerned, for exarrrple,
the urgent need for a full-time Professor in the field of American Foreign
Relations and Policy. This need has been met by the addition to the Faculty
of Graham IT. Stuart, long-time Professor of Political Science in Stanford
University. Dr. Stuart joined the School at the opening of the 1952 Sumner
Session and will continue through the coming year a.s Visiting Professor of
American Foreign Relations.
Aside from the contributions already mentioned toward the -.cork of
the Summer Session end. Conference on Southeast Asia, gifts to the Foundation
and the School during the last fiscal year have totalled 'i"'172,201. Of this
amount, 649,051 were received from business corporations and ''.123,150 from
individuals and foundations. Included in the latter figure is the second
instalment of $60,000 under the five' year grant from the Carnegie
Corporation. Mrs. Elsa 5,hitin Mason, a member of the School's Advisory
committee, transferred during the year shares of stock valued at $150,000,
the School to have the unrestricted use of the income accruing from these
shares in the form of dividends. Since the date of this gift, February 12,
1952, this income has amounted to ``6,250. So far as the foregoing figures
indicate a growing realization of the School's worth, they are distinctly
encouraging,, On the other hand, the heavy dependence on donations from
business is a matter for concern. Although the activity of the Foreign
Service Educational Foundation has resulted in more numerous gifts of this
description than in ,preceding years, the average contribution has decreased
in size and it appears highly probable that this source of income will
become gradually less productive from this point fbrw,rard. If the business
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commt.nity has been the main support of the School during the eight years of
its existence, it has been due not only to a confident belief in the value
of the School's aims and objectives, but also in the expectation that
additional means for development and expansion would be forthcoming as the
School justified its early promise, it is too much to ask or to expect that
business should continue to carry so great a responsibility indefinitely.
It is with these thoughts therefore that I send you this sursple-
mentary statement in support of our original a~rilication for a grant of
funds. I hope you will find the foregoing material -pertinent, and I hope
further that, if any other specific points occur to you which require
additional information or explanation, you will give no an opportunity to
comment on them.
Sincerely yours,
Philip W. Thayer
Dean
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