ABSTRACT
The social sciences came to maturity—or at least left their adolescence—at a singularly inhospitable time in history. The president's review of the Foundation's work for that period reflected the anxiety and disillusionment of the time. The Foundation over a period of years has also made substantial grants to the Canadian Social Science Research Council, organized for the same purposes and functioning in the same relationship as its sister agency in the United States. In the social sciences, the need for such a fundamental substructure was even greater, and the work of the Foundation in the universities was therefore devoted almost exclusively to the promotion of research at the graduate level. Meanwhile, the direct approach to the overwhelming crisis of our generation cannot be neglected, and it was in this spirit and against this background that the Foundation in the forties carried on its activities in international relations.
