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(Originally published in the International Social Science Bulletin, 1949, 1, 1/2.) Discusses the integration of the social sciences into UNESCO in the immediate post-WWII period. While the need to include the social sciences was evident to all, several dilemmas were immediately raised: unrealistic expectations that the social sciences might contribute to global problems in a similar manner as the sciences; difficulties in integrating different conceptions of the social sciences developed in different regions of the world; establishing the relation of the social sciences to the humanities; & the absence of national social science organizations that might contribute to an international body. Efforts to solve these dilemmas over the organization's first 18 months are described. It is suggested that four main lines of activity were particularly fruitful: a project on tensions affecting human understanding; an international collaboration project; intensive work in political science as especially requiring international treatment; & a progressive international organization of the social sciences. D. Ryfe