Nicolas Nabokov, 18 June 1951, box 2, folder Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., Nicolas Nabokov Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.
78. Quoted in Kelly,
79. Frank Wisner to Deputy Assistant Director for Policy Coordination, “Reported Crisis in the American Committee for Cultural Freedom,” 7 April 1952, in Michael Warner, ed.,
80. Saunders,
81. “In view of the deep internal disagreements and lack of restraint which were evident in some of the violent exchanges at the March 29 meeting,” reported the PSB staffer, A. P. Toner, “any government association with the Committee at this time seems undesirable.” A. P. Toner, “American Committee for Cultural Freedom,” 9 April 1952, box 4, folder American Committee for Cultural Freedom, PSB Files, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri.
82. Cord Meyer to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., 16 February 1954, box 20, folder Meyer, Cord, Schlesinger Papers; Michael Josselson to Daniel Bell, 27 April 1956, 282.10, International Association for Cultural Freedom/Congress for Cultural Freedom Papers, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
83. James Burnham to Robert Gorham Davis, 15 September 1954, 3.4, ACCF Papers.
84. Michael Josselson to Sol Stein, 22 September 1954, 7.12, ACCF Papers. The CCF, Josselson explained, was ending assistance to all “areas which are not ‘critical’ or where possibilities for local fund raising exist.” Stein, a former Voice of America advisor, later founded the publishing house Stein and Day.
85. Sidney Hook to John F. Dailey, Jr., 25 June 1952, 6.16, ACCF Papers.
86. John F. Dailey, Jr., to ACCF, 15 December 1952, 6.16, ACCF Papers.
87. Sol Stein to Edward Lilly, 23 February 1955, 16.8, ACCF Papers; E. C. K. Finch to Irving Kristol, 25 November 1952, 6.12, ACCF Papers. Among the cultural Cold War projects Stein initiated was a series of foreign productions of Sidney Kingsley’s play
88. Sol Stein to Harold L. Oram, 4 October 1954, 6.13, ACCF Papers.
89. See contents of 3.12, ACCF Papers.
90. Sol Stein to Michael Josselson, 1 March 1955, 7.12, ACCF Papers; Sol Stein to Edward Lilly, 23 February 1955, 16.8, ACCF Papers; Sol Stein to Edward Lilly, 4
March 1955, 16.8, ACCF Papers.
91. See, for example, James T. Farrell to Julius Fleischmann, 25 March 1955, 6.16, ACCF Papers.
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92. Diana Trilling,
May 1955, box 20, folder Meyer, Cord, Schlesinger Papers.
93. ACCF to Michael Josselson, 9 May 1955, 7.12, ACCF Papers; Robert Blum to James T. Farrell, 9 May 1955, 3.2, ACCF Papers.
94. Norman Thomas to Sol Stein, 10 May 1955, 4.22, ACCF Papers.
95. Jeal V. Peltier to Sol Stein, 11 May 1955, 6.16, ACCF Papers.
96. Cord Meyer to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., 16 May 1955, box 20, folder Meyer, Cord, Schlesinger Papers.
97. Henry Schwarzschild to Norman Thomas, 15 November 1954, 13.16, ACCF Papers.
98. See 13.15, ACCF Papers.
99. Arthur Miller to ACCF, AMCOMLIB, and Union of Soviet Writers, 7 February 1956, 14.11, ACCF Papers.
100. James Farrell to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., 6 May 1955, box 13, folder Farrell, James, Schlesinger Papers. Bertrand Russell to editor,
March 1956, 282.10, CCF Papers.
101. James Farrell to Bertrand Russell, 5 April 1956, 282.10, CCF Papers.
102. The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee’s officers informed Russell that the source of the ACCF’s funds “is a mystery but there appears very good reason to believe that a part of them come from the State Department.” Quoted in Barry Feinberg and Ronald Kasrils, eds.,
(London: Allen and Unwin, 1983), p. 65.
103. Minutes of Nicolas Nabokov’s visit to Bertrand Russell, n.d., 4.3, CCF Papers.
Michael Josselson to Sidney Hook, 20 April 1956, 135.6, CCF Papers. For more on the Russell controversy, see Hugh Wilford,
104. Hook,
105. Diana Trilling to Sidney Hook, 15 October 1955, 3.15, ACCF Papers.