When the huge "charity" trusts in the United States converge in supporting the same cause, there is always solid reason for keeping that cause under observation. For instance, the Royal Institute of International Affairs has long been the beneficiary of American trust funds, so that Chatham House has been and remains well worth watching. Now comes the turn of the Institute of International Education to re- ceive largess. Not long ago the Carnegie Cor- poration made it a grant of $1,500,000, and the Rockefeller Foundation soon afterwards bestowed $250,000 upon it. The Ford Foundation recently announced that it would grant the fortunate Institute $3,500,000 spread over the next ten years.
The Institute of International Education is not a new body: what is new is the uniting of the giant trusts to lavish their benefactions upon it. Its work consist in encouraging educationists and others to study abroad and in supporting students from abroad in the United States.
Quite innocuous, one might think. As the trusts are being widely used to promote internationalism, however, it would be interesting to know on what basis the students are chosen, and to what influence they are subjected in the countries to which they go. We may be quite certain that these influences do not include any which rest on the belief that the sovereignty of the nation-state is essential to the preservation of Christendom.
E. K. Chesterton, Editor of Candour, the British Weekly as quoted in The American Mercury, December, 1956. (Emphasis supplied).