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. their (the children's) later socio-sexual development" (27), (2) "...pre- marital socio-sexual experience. .. should contribute to this development of emotional capacities. In this, as in other areas, learning at an early age may be more effective than learning at any later age after marriage" (28 ; and (3) premarital sexual experience "provides an opportunity for the female to adjust emotionally to various types of males....we have seen many hundreds of marriages ruined by the failure of the partners to learn before marriage that they could not adjust emotionally or sexually to each other." (29) . Proxy Reputation So contrary to accepted codes of morality and behavior were these theories and observations, that an article in Harper's Magazine exclaimed "they would be unbelievable but fox jhe impressive weight of scientific agencies backing the survey." 30 ‘Among the agencies so listed by the writer of the article were thé-Rockefeller Foundation's Medical Science Division and the University of Indiana. fo. "Unofficial" State Department If anyone maintains that the money and influence behind some of the major foundations dealing in foreign relations could not affect the . decisions of certain government officials in the performance of their duties, then he is not facing facts. As far back as a quarter of a century ago, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was *;, "; boasting that it had become "an unofficial instrument of international ~~— policy, taking up here and there the ends and threads of international problems and questions which the governments find it difficult to handle, and through private initiative reaching conclusions which are not of a formal nature but which unofficially find their way into the policies of governments. "' G1) Nor was this boast an empty or meaningless one. An individual who has made a study of the activities of the Rockefeller Foundation, for instance, has credited it with exerting the pressure that led to the recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States during the 1930s. His reason for the pressure? Standard Oil's desire to negotiate oil contracts with the Soviet leaders. (32) As will be brought out later, under the individual organizations, wholesale lots of officials or trustees of various foundations have been--or are--employed by the United States Department of State.