ABSTRACT
Although the establishment in the prewar period of the World Peace Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had shown the way, there was notable development of philanthropic support for international understanding during the 1920's and 1930's. In the period between the two world conflicts the World Peace Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment sought through the promotion and dissemination of knowledge and understanding to strengthen the forces making for peace. The Carnegie Endowment, more amply supported than the World Peace Foundation, may be taken as representative of philanthropy in this sphere. Unofficial agencies dedicated to the promotion of international understanding and peace also enlisted financial support. These included Count Coudenhove-Kalerge's Pan-European Union and the American Arbitration Association. To counteract lingering prejudice against Germany, a heritage of the war, and to improve cultural understanding between the Fatherland and America, seven men in 1930 incorporated in New York the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation.
