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INTELLECTUALS TO WORK FOR PEACE^ROCLAW, Poland (A.P.).—A world intellectual congress is scheduled to meet in this former German city of Breslau on August 25 to map plans for the promotion of world peace. Five hundred writers, artists and scientists from 14 countries have been invited to attend.'l'hls w orld con arcs-, styled m the defence of peanc” 11 bcinR arranged by intellectuals of Poland iind France. Sessions are to continue until August « Yaroslav Iwa-sklewlcr, cholrmnn of the Polish brunch helping to organise the cougreM. no Id that ’’the safeguarding of peace'- will be Its principal objective Besides tills.' he uddcd. the congress w,ll deal with the problem of naltonnl cultures, the possibilities of international popularisation of achievements In the fields of science and ait. nnd the unity of effort* of representatives of the cultural world wlfh progressive social movements.” iwnhklrwicr. said reprcscninf ives of the Soviet Union England, l-ranec and Poland, would tend lectures at the congress.EINSTEIN INTERESTED Hn added that Professor Alberl Em.steui, now in the United States, w on Id not be able to intend the session.* because of •The bad state of hi.* health.- but he lit nctlvelv supporting Hie organlhalion of the congress. Countries. expected to be repre-1 sen led besides the Sovtcl Union, hnglnnd Prance nnd Polund U.rtude the United State*. Italy. Chile, Denmnrk. Czechoslovakia, Mexico Uruguay. Biurll. Ilelglum. ana other F.urojienn countries.A group of German democratic intellectuals.” header! by the famous writer Bernhard Kellcr-mun. sh also expected to attend.Iwasklewlcz *nid the list ot those Who have announced that they will attend Includes:Erskmc Caldwell, writer, ot New York, and the American sculptor Jo Davidson: Pablo Neruda.Chilean poet; Giuseppe Cacarctu. noet nnd historian. Professor I,. MornndJ. hUtorinn, mid L. Strenl. historian of Duly,Luis Aragon. Eln Triolet Madame Irene Jollol-Curic AndreDnvid. Pablo Picasso. Jean Louis Sarrault, Mndelaine Benaud, Mnr-tin Clmufner, and a dozen others from France, Rafael Kubelik Jorge linado, nnd outers, from Brazil. vMAN V POLENProfessor Stefan Plenkowski. Poland's lending atomic scientist, heads a delegation of 22 Pole*. Professor Amerlco Toledano. chairman of the Professional Union ol Latin Amerlcu. Is also expected ta attend.The proceedings of the congress will be I11 Poltflh, English, French and Russian.Iwflsklrwicz sold: This will be a congress of uniform European and world Intellectual thought and exchange of artistic achievements•Tor Poland. It will have anadditional Importance of peculiar character. The fact that »l will be held behind the no-callcd iron curtain and In the centre of the western territories 1 the former east Germun lands) if. particularly important toPoland
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Mackay Daily Mercury
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Tue, Aug 10, 1948
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