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The Honorable Joseph C. Grow -2- October 31, 1952issues, and in one part of the world it is deeply concerned with the very section of Europe thout which mal NCFE sctivities revolve. Yet the Americen public is practically illiterate respecting this ere, both its pest and its present. I know whereof I speck as a result of the imiry moove referred to. When it is completed I am inclined to think the results will be startling, particularly if we bear in mind tut the i rues at ste must be settled; that they are a concern to this country; and thet our people are preeticly unirformed. They now little 1. anytida bout the historical similicance behind what has occurred or will occur er the next few decades untold beeruse they ave hed no opportunity to learn the nistoric significance of it all.In this country torry there are approximately 600 colieres end univerci-ties ofrerin four your courses of study rendang to the archelor of Arts degreее. This figure does not include the 575 junior collegen which usually conduct non-derrec-granting programs to years in length - coproxamrtely the first two years of the traditional four year proprim. As for es our incuiry her gone it is alrendy spparent that there are only several dozen institutions in the former group which offer instruction in this area, and very few in the latter. Most of those which do cover this arce are the farger universities where the courses are rolly Eraduate in character and thus elective. in man instances brici coverage is supplied in curvey cources, but even these con pot snu do not develop the attention that historically this part of the world now deserves. When this survey is completed a comprehensive report of the findirre will be mode. It will refer to colleges included in a list compiled of the American Council on Erection which is the overall representative organization in this country cor higher education.I am colling the attention of the Directers to this situstion becsuce it seems to me we must realize that the imericen public not only does not know whet we are doing, out actually can not understand the significance e se are trying to do it. Generation efter generation hos grown up in America illite ste about the outside world. What we ere discoverer concerning the trek of korledre of this eree will of course prove true of other ports at the globe suens the Far East or South Africa,In our Division we reel this particularly strongly because re cre dependent on help from the acaderic world. The pirin fact is more and more evacent that we can not rely on Americn higher education as a proli ic source or assistance. The relatively row individuals who have studied this region, and who are therefore qualified to sid us in our efforts, are either too overburdened with demands made on their time because they are cuniiiieu, or they are too yeun and inexperi-enced to be reliea on in an enterprise no delicate as the ore which we cre conducting.There are signs that in some academic localities interest in this field ic developing. however, we can not wit for another generation to energe even thoura, under whatever cuspices, a procran of training could be implemented to