Here is from their own website describing their 1930s "accomplishments":
"The Institute established the Emergency Committee to Aid Displaced German Scholars, an important activity which eventually aided such distinguished individuals as Martin Buber, Paul Tillich and Jacques Maritain. Edward R. Murrow began his career as IIE's Assistant Director at this time, helping to find lectureships for these refugee scholars. IIE also assisted those fleeing from Spanish and Italian fascism. Expanding its activities outside Europe, IIE opened the first exchanges with the Soviet Union and Latin America."
Notice that IIE opened exchanges in the Soviet Union at a time when the Soviet Union was in its second decade of murdering millions of its own citizens. IIE helped victims of Germany, Spain, and Italy however. Golly.
One of its accomplishments in the 1940s was it began the administration of the graduate student component of the Fulbright Program -- IIE's largest program, still active today. (The Fulbright Scholarship) If I am not mistaken the Fulbright Scholarship is a boondoggle created by federal legislation and funded by taxpayers.
We have all become aware of Fulbright's "greatest" accomplishment of the 1970s. The appearance of John Kerry before his committee and their discussion of how to get Nixon to "disengage" the American "war criminals" from Vietnam.
As I stated above. W.W.II helped defend communism from Hitler and American "progressives" supported the U.S. That was the last time that American "progressives" supported the U.S. in war. (Re: Kerry, Fulbright, Cronkite, et al.) Why? McCarthy wanted to know and millions of us supported him then and now.
Screw Edward R. Murrow.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1439582/posts - nothing new there for Murrow students, but this thread itself has some interesting discussion of Murrow.