A Day At The Races

Some 200 intellectuals gathered in New York last November to worry the problem: Why is Anti-Americanism so prevalent in Europe?

Some 200 intellectuals gathered in New York last November to worry the problem: Why is Anti-Americanism so prevalent in Europe? Meeting in the Starlight Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, they discussed this question in an atmosphere of gleaming microphones, taperecorders, mink coats and plaster statuary. The very setting revealed more about “the problem” posed by the sponsoring American Committee for Cultural Freedom than anything that was or could have been said; but of this almos...