Cultural Relations as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy The Educational Exchange Program Between the United States and Germany 1945-1954 by Henry J. Kellermann JX 232 A28 no. 114 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 78-600002 DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 8931 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Stock Number 044-000-01688-5 Foreword This volume is the third in the monograph series on specific aspects of the international educational and cultural exchange program of the U.S. Department of State as they have developed since the inception of the program in 1938. The series is published by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (CU) for the purpose of providing a wider knowledge of the history of the Departmentsponsored person-to-person program, designed to foster mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other peoples of the world. At the same time, as this volume shows, the Department-sponsored program has been dependent from the outset on a solid and enthusiastic partnership with a large body of private organizations, and citizens too numerous to count, here and abroad. In planning this series, three scholars and educators long associated with the program have provided advice and guidance: Ben M. Cherrington, first chief of the Department's cultural relations program, and for many years a recognized leader in the field of international educational and cultural relations; John Hope Franklin, Professor of American History at the University of Chicago; and Frank Freidel, Professor of American History at Harvard University. The first volume in the series, America's Cultural Experiment in China, 1942-1949 by Wilma Fairbank, was published in June 1976. The second, written by the director of the CU History Office, J. Manuel Espinosa, entitled Inter-American Beginnings of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, 1936-1948, appeared in February of 1977. This monograph reviews the history of the reestablishment of educational and cultural relations between the United States and Germany after World War II. At its peak period it was the largest single U.S. Government-sponsored program with another country either before or since that time. Initiated, as it was, in the wake of the bloodiest conflict in history, moreover, the program was a gesture seldom equaled in international cultural rapprochement and diplomacy. The record of this part of U.S. relations with postwar Germany, as here written, places in perspective a neglected aspect of the basis of our present close friendly relations with the Federal Republic of Germany. |