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1973 · rif. 73120 — Tokyo: International Cultural Foundation 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with rubbing to the edges and extremities. This copy belonged to sociologist and anthropologist Dr. Ashley Montagu and includes laid in materials pertaining to the controversial association of the International Conferences on the Unity of the Sciences with Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The items present include a typed letter Signed by Dr. Montagu stating that he refused to lend Moon any legitimacy by attending the conferences and noting that he had advised the organizer Nobel laureate Prof. Eugene Wigner of the same a typed letter Signed by Nobel laureate Robert S. Mulliken and by several others -- including Amitar Etzioni who later withdrew from the conference -- advising invitees to the Fourth International Conference that there was no religious agenda in question and a typed letter Signed by Moon himself written on the letterhead of the International Cultural Foundation presenting this copy of the 1973 proceedings. Also present are Vol. XXI No. 45 of the Princeton Spectrum newspaper featuring Allen Tate Wood's article "The Dark Side of Sun Myung Moon" a New York Times clipping in which Prof. Kai Nielsen offers reasons why scholars should shun conferences sponsored by Moon and a magazine article listing some of the scientists who chose to attend the fourth annual conference as well as some of those who stayed away. International Cultural Foundation hardcover