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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 6

IPR Cease

p. 96 · Read in the full issue

Rockfeller Grants to IPR Cease

O Ockfeller Foundation’S Pr

-*■*- dent, D. Rusk, announced in a December that, due to suspec Communist affiliations, further grants the Institute of Pacific Relations are \ unlikely.

In pointing out that the Foundaf had made grants totalling two mill dollars between 1925-1950, Mr. R declared that not until “certain pe< closely associated with the Institute” recently refused to answer questions to Communist affiliations, was Institute suspect.

“Important misgivings” in regard IPR had developed in 1945, Mr. R declared before a US House of Rej sentatives committee investigating t exempt foundations.