visual presentation of the Council's history up to about 1960, with frequent references to Foreign Affairs and one bay devoted to developments after 1960. It showed highlights of a fascinating and unique story of private initiative seeking to enhance public understanding of foreign policy issues and to convey useable thinking to successive American governments.

Speaking at the inauguration of that exhibit, I talked about the Council's history, with appropriate emphasis on Foreign Affairs but much also about other activities and projects carried out at the Council, seeking not to repeat but rather to embellish and give color and human touches to the contents of the exhibit in effect, program notes. Since the exhibit was based largely on the papers of individuals no longer with us, it dealt mostly withthe period from 1922 to about 1960, and my remarks focused on this period, with a short last section on the years since.

Let me stress at the outset a fundamental point. From the beginning the Council has seen its function as giving running room to individual ideas and writing, and to discussion and debate. It has never, as a body, taken any position on foreign policy problems. Its articulate members have never been more than a fraction of the whole, never claiming to speak in its name, and both the Council and the magazine have stressed from the first that divergent opinions were inevitable and to be welcomed.

THE BEGINNINGS

It is appropriate that the story told in the exhibit started with Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton before he became