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taken after a particularly thorough examination of the facts and
the situation of the persons involved. This was done in conformity
with existing regulations and with the fullest account being
taken of our traditions of hospitality and justice."

- On July 24, Mr. Emmanuel sent the following telegram
to the President of the Union of Czechoslovak Writers in Prague :
Wish to express my total admiration to the Union of Czechoslovak
Writers for its serene determination in the defense of fundamental
liberties stop Ardently hope that its confidence will triumph
over all difficulties.

August :

On August 12, Mr. Stone wrote a letter to the Nigerian Ambassador in Washington "reflecting the continued concern of this organization... about Wole Soyinka." Remarking that he understood that the Ambassador would be "relaying an invitation made by Amnesty International for Mr. Soyinka to be released from protective custody to come to the United States in some capacity as lecturer, teacher or playwright in residence," Mr. Stone offered the help of the IACF to facilitate this plan.

September :

On the initiative of Prabhakar Padhye, Director of the
Centre for Indian Writers, at Poona, 330 Indian writers,
professors and journalists signed a statement vigorously
protesting against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet
Russia and her allies. Mr. Padhye wrote to U Thant, Secretary
General of the United Nations, on September 13, communicating
the text of the statement and the full list of signatories
which, included among others the names of Raosaheb Patwardhan
and Achyutrao Patwardhan, writers who enjoy a nationwide
reputation.

Word has also been received from the Bombay office of the
Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom that it had collected
the signatures of leading Indian intellectuals to an appeal
that was sent to the Czechoslovak and Soviet embassies in
New Delhi. The Czechoslovak ambassador acknowledged the appeal.

## II. SEMINAR NOTES

Two important seminars have been held since the beginning
of the year with a third - of international significance -
scheduled for the first week in December.

## Hommage à Baudelaire - Critique d'Art.

Under the auspices of IACF, a four-day conference was held
in Paris, during the second week of January, to commemorate
the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of Baudelaire. The
Chairman was Pierre Schneider, a Paris-American art critic.
Some thirty writers, cultural historians, philosophers, museum
directors, Baudelaire specialists, poets, artists, and art critics
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Critic." They included Theodor Adorno (Germany), Stephen Spender (England), Werner Hofmann (Austria), Carlo Bronne (Belgium), Thomas Hess and Harold Rosenberg (U.S.A.), Yves Bonnefoy, Pierre Emmanuel, André Masson and Gaétan Picon (France), Kostas Papaioannu (Greece), Franco Russoli (Italy), Yoshio Abe (Japan), Octavio Paz (Mexico), Juliusz Starzynski (Poland), Sorin Alexandrescu (Rumania), Jean Starobinski (Switzerland), Adolf Krupa (Czechoslovakia), Valentin Kataev (USSR), and others.

This meeting received wide press coverage. *The New Yorker* (February 10) carried a long report on the conference by Harold Rosenberg. *Preuves* devoted the major part of its May issue to it, publishing nine papers.

## La Philosophie Idéiste en Russie

Idealist Philosophy in Russia was the theme of a seminar that took place in Aix-en-Provence from March 25 to 29 under the dual auspices of the Fondation pour une Entraide Intellectuelle Européenne (an IACF affiliate) and the Faculty of Letters of the University of Aix-Marseilles. The Chairmen of the seminar were Pierre Pascal, Professor Emeritus of the Sorbonne, and George Kline, Professor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr. More than 20 scholars, academics, philosophers and cultural historians from France, the United States, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Italy - some of them the sons or daughters or contemporaries of the men discussed at the meeting - gathered to consider and pay homage to the Russian philosophers who had contributed to the intellectual renaissance that took place in Russia between 1875 and 1920 and whose thought is now of large interest to the young generation of Soviet students and intellectuals.

A selection of the papers and discussions will be published in a special number of *Cahiers de l'Herne* in 1969, and an American edition is also anticipated.

## The United States - Its Problems, Impact and Image in the World

Many months of intensive work have gone into the preparation of this major international seminar that will take place from December 1 - 5 at Princeton. The theme and the time were chosen with a view to the fact that the United States will be at a turning point. The seminar will be held a few weeks after the U.S. presidential election and a few weeks before the inauguration of the next president. Some sixty scholars, writers, public men and student leaders from the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Australia will be participating. Dr. Carl Kaysen, Director of The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Editor of *L'Express* and author of *Le Défi Américain*, are co-Chairmen of the seminar which will be devoted to four major topics:

1. Internal Problems of the United States;

2. The Post-Industrial Society;

3. The United States as a Global Power;

4. The United States and the Cultural Future of the World.

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Among the Americans who are expected to participate in the seminar are: Daniel Bell, Saul Bellow, Zbigniew Brzezinski, McGeorge Bundy, Frederick Burkhardt, Harold Cruse, Paul Doty, Louis Fischer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Lillian Hellman, Stanley Hoffmann, Irving Howe, George Kennan, Joseph Kraft, Edwin H. Land, Robert Lifton, Martin Meyerson, Willie Morris, John B. Oakes, Martin Peretz, Arthur Schlesinger, Edward Shils, and Vann Woodward. The non-American participants include Rajat Neogy and Alexander Kwapong (Africa), Owen Harries (Australia), Eugen Loebl (Czechoslovakia), Henry Brandon, Alan Bullock, Anthony Hartley, and John Maddox (England), Michel Albert, François Bourricaud, Alain Clément, Michel Crozier, François Furet, Alfred Grosser, and Manès Sperber (France), Waldemar Besson, Karl Bracher, Marion Dönhoff, and Karl Kaiser (Germany), Andreas Papandreou (Greece), Geza Ottlik (Hungary), Minoo Masani and Shrikrishna Mulgaokar (India), Mochtar Lubis (Indonesia), Fabio Cavazza, Aurelio Peccei and Ugo Stille (Italy), Masamichi Inoki (Japan), Orlando Albornoz, Gino Germani and Alejandro Magnet (Latin America), Jan Kott and Jacek Wozniakowski (Poland), L.F. Lindley Cintra (Portugal), Radu Lupan (Rumania), Kukrit Pramoj (Thailand), and Stanislav Menshikov (USSR).

We will, of course, have more to say about this seminar in future issues of the NEWS.

Directly following the Seminar, IACF will hold, at Princeton, its semi-annual meeting of the Board of Directors.

### III. NEWS OF THE REVIEWS

As part of the Association's policy to strengthen IACF publications through a joint effort with leading publishers or institutions, new arrangements have been concluded for two Association reviews: *The China Quarterly* and *Der Monat*.

*The China Quarterly*, which first appeared in 1960, has established itself as a leading journal on contemporary China. Since the Spring of this year it has been published by the Contemporary China Institute of London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, with the continuing support of the IACF. Mr. David Wilson is the new Executive Editor. He resigned from the Foreign Office to take up this post on April 1 from Roderick MacFarquhar, who is going to devote himself to full-time research.

David Wilson studied Chinese at the Hong Kong University Language School. After passing the Foreign Office exam in advanced standard Chinese, he was posted from 1963-1965 as Third and then Second Secretary at the British mission in Peking. Returning to London as First Secretary, he sat at the China desk until his resignation.

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Starting with the January 1969 issue, *Der Monat* will be published by Dr. Gerd Bucerius, publisher of *Die Zeit*, Hamburg, in association with IACF. In an agreement reached in July 1968, Dr. Bucerius acquired 76 per cent of the shares of *Der Monat*

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and IACF retained 24 *per cent*. Under the agreement the appointment of the managing editor will remain a common responsibility. Klaus Harpprecht is becoming Managing Editor of *Der Monat* and Hellmut Jaesrich and Peter Härtling continue to be members of the editorial triumvirate. It is expected that *Der Monat's* circulation and advertising will be substantially increased by the new arrangements and that it will have greater impact in Germany. *Der Monat* was founded in Berlin in 1948 by Melvin Lasky, now Editor of *Encounter*.

Klaus Harpprecht, who first became associated with *Der Monat* in January 1967, is a prominent German writer, journalist and TV commentator. For a number of years he was the correspondent for German TV in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books, of which the most recent are *Viele Grüsse and die Freiheit - ein transatlantisches Tagebuch* (Steingrüben Verlag, 1964) and *Beschädigte Paradiese - aus transatlantischen Notizen* (Steingrüben Verlag, 1966).

Peter Härtling is the widely known author of novels (Niembsch), essays and poems. Dr. Härtling is managing director of the S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt.

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The editorial offices of *Mundo Nuevo* have been transferred from Paris to Buenos Aires. Emir Rodriguez Monegal, Uruguayan literary critic and editor of *Mundo Nuevo* since it was founded in Paris in July 1966, resigned from this post in June. He has been succeeded by a Board of Editors headed by Horacio Rodriguez, who has been in charge of ILARI's (Instituto Latinoamericano de Relaciones Internacionales) Buenos Aires office. Earlier this year IACF received a special three-year grant from the Ford Foundation to provide new opportunities for *Mundo Nuevo*. The object of the transfer of the editorial offices is to broaden the scope of the publication and to bring *Mundo Nuevo's* editors into closer contact with the personalities, forces and issues of Latin America. As soon as publishing conditions permit, *Mundo Nuevo* will be printed and distributed in Latin America. The August-September issue of *Mundo Nuevo* is the first to be published under the new editorial arrangement.

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At its July meeting, the Executive Council of the Indian Committee on Cultural Freedom (ICCF) announced a change in the editorship of *Quest*, the Indian Committee's quarterly journal of inquiry, criticism and ideas. Mr. V.V. John is assuming his new post on October 1, replacing Professor Abu Sayeed Ayyub who has reached retirement age.

Mr. John, who was, until October 1967, Professor of English and Director of Education in the Government of Rajasthan, was born in 1910. He has been a frequent contributor on problems of education and language to *The Times of India*, *The Hindustan Times*, *The Statesman*, and *Weekend Review*.

In accepting the appointment as editor, Mr. John announced his intention to make *Quest* a vigorous publication, close to major public issues.

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Transition and its editor Rajat Neogy have, of late, been much in the news. In August, the magazine (No.36) was banned in Nigeria because "the photographs of the Nigerian events are shocking and most slanderous." This was the first time that Transition had been banned in any country in the world. The ban, officially, was imposed not by the Federal Government but by the distributors, Book and Press Distributions (Nigeria) Ltd. In a letter to Neogy they claimed they were unable to distribute the issue because "they had been advised that it would be against the public interest to distribute such a magazine in Nigeria, particularly at a time when efforts are being made to bring the unfortunate events in our country to an end." In commenting on the ban, Neogy said that it was "most unfortunate," and emphasized that Transition had given a balanced appreciation of the situation in that country. The news of Transition's banning was the occasion for a long article on the magazine by Alfred Friendly, Jr., that appeared in The New York Times on Sunday, August 11 under the title of "Slick African Magazine Gains a Wide Following." Writing from Addis Ababa, Friendly noted :

> The only apparent common ground between Nigerians and Biafrans at their peace conference here this week has been their shared desire to read the latest issue of Transition... The interest of the two sides, who failed to agree on anything else during seven hours of negotiations spread over five days, was heightened by the news that distribution of an issue of Transition, featuring three articles on the Nigerian civil war, had been banned in Nigeria.

Pendennis (in *The Observer*, July 14) also wrote enthusiastically about *Transition* which, since the initial run of 2,000 copies appeared in October 1961, now sells about 12,000 copies per issue. A long article on *Transition* recently appeared in *Die Zeit*, Hamburg.

## IV. FROM THE BOOK-SHELF

The Paris publishing house Editions du Seuil published in May *Anthologie de la Poésie roumaine*. Le Monde's Literary Supplement of May 11 devoted an entire page to the Anthology and remarked : "Until now Rumanian poetry throughout the ages remained almost inaccessible to us. This lacuna is... made up for by the publication of *Anthologie de la Poésie roumaine*." And in an article that will be appearing in a forthcoming number of *Preuves*, Ovid Crohmalniceanu, one of Rumania's outstanding literary critics, has written : "After the *Anthology of Hungarian Poetry* and the *Anthology of Polish Poetry*, Editions du Seuil offers us this year an *Anthology of Rumanian Poetry*, in the series directed by Pierre Emmanuel and Konstantin Jelenski. The initiative in this effort to make known the values of European poetry written in languages that are not readily accessible is due to the International Association for Cultural Freedom. In a world torn by ideological fanaticism and with little inclination to tolerance, it was no small achievement to realize such an ambitious project..."

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- Lelio Marmora, *Migracion al Sur* (Buenos Aires, Libera).

- Juan Carlos Agulla, *Eclipse de une aristocracia -
Una investigacion sobre las elites dirigentes de la
ciudad de Cordoba* (Buenos Aires, Libera).

And in the "Third World" series, the object of which is
to provide translations of works of major significance :
W.G. Beasley's *Historia moderna del Japon*, showing the transition
of a feudal society into an industrial state.

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ILARI's Director Luis Mercier Vega is the author of
*Technique du Contre-Etat*, which was published in July by
Editions Pierre Belfond in Paris. In his new book Mr. Mercier
analyzes guerrilla activity in Latin America and notes that the
idea of a *contre-Etat*, in guerrilla theory, has replaced the
traditional socialist concept of a *contre-société*; and that
intellectuals, professionals and students are the dominant
elements in the guerrilla movement rather than the workers and
peasants. Another book by Mr. Mercier that came out last year
- *Mecanismos de poder en America Latina* (also published in
French by Editions universitaires) - was published in Catalan
by the Barcelona Publishing House Edima in the spring of the
year.

Horacio Rodriguez, outgoing director of the Buenos Aires
ILARI center and new coordinator of *Mundo Nuevo*, is the author
of *Che Guevara - Aventura o Revolucion*, published this spring
in Madrid by Plaza y Janes. A French edition will be published
by Editions Julliard.

Fernando Ainsa, ILARI representative in Uruguay, is the
author of *Concierto asombro* (Montevideo, Alfa), a provocative
novel that has excited considerable discussion in the press.

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Board Member John Kenneth Galbraith's *The Triumph - A Small
Fable of Modern Diplomacy* was published in the spring by
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, and Hamish Hamilton, London.

Professor D.P. O'Connell, General Assembly Member from
Australia, is the author of *Richelieu*, a "brilliant biography"
(*Le Monde*, June 22), published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in
London.

Our former colleague, John Hunt, since the beginning of
the year Vice President of the Salk Institute in La Jolla,
California, is the author of *The Grey Horse Legacy*, which
Knopf published in May.

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V. IN THE LIMELIGHT

At the end of May, IACF's Board Chairman and Master of St. Catherine's College, ALAN BULLOCK, was nominated as Oxford University's Vice-Chancellor for a four-year period. He will assume his new office in October 1969. Until then, he says, "I want to listen a lot and not say much."

IGNAZIO SILONE, co-Editor of Tempo Presente and IACF Board Member, received one of Italy's top literary prizes --the Premio Campiello-- on September 3 for his book *Adventures of a Poor Christian*. The award carries with it a prize of 4,000,000 lire.

In this "year of distinction" IACF's Director PIERRE EMMANUEL achieved immortality on being elected to the Académie Française on April 25 filling the chair of the late Maréchal Juin.

IACF's president, SHEPARD STONE, has received another academic distinction. Thirty-five years after having received his Dr. phil. from the University of Berlin, and twelve years after receiving a Dr. Phil. h.c. from the Free University of Berlin, he was made Dr. rer. pol. h.c. by the University of Basle at the end of November 1967. And in May of this year, Willy Brandt, Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic, personally conferred on him the German Order "Das grosse Verdienstkreuz mit Stern" at a ceremony held in Bonn.

*Other people in the news or on the move :* General Assembly member EZEKIEL MPHAHLELE, who, in August, left the University of Denver, where we had been Lecturer in the English Department, for Lusaka. He has been appointed to a professorship in the University of Zambia's Department of English. LEWIS NKOSI, Editor of the *South African Bulletin*, is back in London again after four months in Haut-de-Cagnes, where he was putting the final touches on a book to be published in London some time next year.

PETER COLEMAN who, besides being Liberal M.L.A. for Fuller, N.S.W., is also co-Editor of AACF's bimonthly *Quadrant*, was named by Australian Prime-Minister Gorton to the Australian Council for the Arts on June 4. Mr. Gorton, incidentally, was one of the founding members of the AACF. OWEN HARRIES, Senior Lecturer in International Affairs at the University of New South Wales and an Associate Editor of *Quadrant* has been on sabbatical leave in England, devoting himself to research and writing a book on Australian foreign policy. He was a visitor to the Paris office earlier this year.

Dr. SOEDJATMOKO, a former member of the General Assembly, was named Indonesian Ambassador to Washington earlier this year.

SULAK SIVARAKSA. IACF representative in Bangkok and Editor of the Sociál Science Review, was recently appointed a member of the Advisory Board to the Fine Arts Commission. The aim of this body is to preserve the traditional values of Thailand in a

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transitional period. He visited Germany in September, at the invitation of the Friederich Naumann Foundation, and made a trip to Paris for talks with members of the Secretariat.

Another recent visitor to Germany, at the invitation of the German Government, was Transition's Editor RAJAT NEOGY. He took advantage of the opportunity to call in at the Paris office.

HELLMUT JAESRICH of *Der Monat* celebrated his sixtieth birthday in September, which was the occasion for numerous congratulatory articles in the German press reviewing the career of one of Germany's outstanding editors.