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Article: WHAT WAS THE CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM?
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- Quadrant
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- October 1, 1999
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WITH SOME NOTES FROM THE 1960S
TRAILER: CIRCULAR QUAY, 21ST OCTOBER 1961
I WAS ONLY a fly on the wall -- a non-voting observer from the editorial committee -- when seventeen grave men of law and business, academia and the arts gathered in the Quadrant office in the old wool store at Circular Quay on that warm and stormy Saturday. The tension was contagious.
The formal agenda was to elect a new President of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, publisher of Quadrant. He would represent Australia at the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Paris and at other centres from New York to New Delhi. He would also have responsibility for setting ...