CULTURAL GROUP ANNOUNCES CHOICE OF NEW HEAD

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• Publication Date: October 3, 1967
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Cultural Group. Announces Choice'of`.d'ew'Head!
By GLORIA EMERSON'
Speciii to The Now York Times
PARIS, Oct. 2-The appoint-
ment of Shepard Stone as pres-
ident of the International 'As-
, sociation for Cultural .Freedom
was announced today. I 11
The association, formerly the
Congress for Cultural Freedom,
also announced that Pierre Em-
manuel, a French poet, had been
appointed director of the assn,
elation.
Mr. Stone, director of the
Ford Foundation's international
affairs program the last 14
years, and Mr. Emmanuel,
former literary director and
deputy secretary general of
.the group, replace Michael
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rector of the 17-year-old group
nnn of its founders. who
Europe," in 1939. ?
He was graduated from Dart -1
mouth College in 1929 and re-'
ceived a Doctor .of Philosophy
degreein history from, the UnI--
versity of. Berlin in 1933.
Elected to the new! board of
directors were the .following:
John Kenneth Galbraith Paul M.,
Warburg Professor-0 kconomics
at Harvard University and for-
mer United States ; Ambassador
to India; d
Waldemar Besson, assistant' rector
of the University of Konstanz,
West Germany.
Edward Shils, a sociologist at'thei
University of Chicago and Fel.
low of,. King's College, Cam.'
bridge.'
.(clan Bullock. Master, of St. Cath.
erine's- College, Oxford, and co.
;editor of Oxford History of Mod-
ern Europe.
Ignazio: Silone, ;Italian` novelist' and
,more than IUD intellectuais
prominent in the arts and in the
political and literary fields de
cided to create a permanent
:body to defend cultural liber-
ties from , infringement, What-
ever the source. ' .
Their aim was also to foster
;the growth of a worldwide com-
!artists and scholars.
I Last May, Mr. Josselson con=
ceded that funds from the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency were'
used -by the association from.
1930 to the summer of 1966. He. f
assumed complete responsibil-'
icy. He said that the C.I.A.,
despite extensive subsidies, had,
not dictated policy or exerted;
any influence.
The association has since been'
determined to - show its inde.-
pendence from tile' United
States Government. The* ap-.
polttment of Mr.'. Stone and a
new board of directors, along
-with the change in name, has
followed.
The association also'said'to-1
day that all sources of funds,wrote a book, ''Shadow ' Over
would be a matter of public
record. The association has a
five-year grant from the Ford
Foundation that began in 1966.
The total amount is not known.
Mr. Stone, 59 years old, was
director of public affairs in the
United States High Commission
for Germany from 1949 to
1952, a ,consultant to. the Unit-
ed States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency in 1961
and a reporter and assistant
Sunday. editor for The New
York Times from 1933 to 1949,
with time out for military duty.
He served in the Army from
1942 ; to 1946; achieving the
rank of lieutenant colonel.- He
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