The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare: Cold War Organizations Sponsored by the National Committee for a Free Europe/ Free Europe Committee

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Photo Gallery 555 ◀ National Committee for Free Europe Brochure 1949 "To Halt Communism and Save Our Freedom" DeWitt Clinton Poole First President National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc. (NCFE) 1949–1951 A. A. Berle, Ambassador Joseph Grew, Jerry Voorhis, President of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and historian James T. Shotwell at the Mid European Studies Center opening of the Danubian Inquiry 556 Alexander Szasz, Ferenc Nagy, Stanisław Mikołajczyk and George M. Dimitrov at an organizational meeting of the International Peasant Union, 1 December 1947 Dwight D. Eisenhower announcing the launch of the Crusade for Freedom 4 September 1950 557 Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, US Commander, Berlin; General Lucius D. Clay, former military governor of Germany and Professor Ernst Reuter, Lord Mayor of Berlin meet at Tempelhoff air base as General Clay, President of the Crusade for Freedom arrived 24 October 1950 to take part in a historic ceremony dedicating the World Freedom Bell at the Berlin City Hall. General Lucius D. Clay helps launch the United States Tour of the Freedom Bell. "Help Lift the Iron Curtain Everywhere Join the Crusade for Freedom" 558 World Freedom Bell A Berlin crowd estimated at over 400,000 attended the dedication of the World Freedom Bell 25 October 1950 559 Demonstrations of Freedom Balloons were used by the Crusade for Freedom to raise funds for the Crusade in the United States. Denver, Colorado 22 February 1956 Thousands of Freedom Balloons filled with Western propaganda were launched over the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Hungary by the Crusade for Freedom 560 Crusade for Freedom Billboard, Denver Colorado in support of Radio Free Europe Thomas Dewey, Governor of the State of New York broadcasting over Crusade for Freedom Radio, 1 January 1950 561 Whitney H. Shepardson (left) with General Willis D. Crittenberger. Crittenberger assumes the presidency of the Free Europe Committee, Inc from Shephardson, 1 October 1956 George Meany president of the AFL-CIO being honored by the International Rescue Committee. Left to right front row: George Meany; Leo Cherne, Honorary Chairman, International Rescue Committee, U. S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey. In the rear Brutus Coste, Vasil Germenj, Peter Pirogov, 1965 A. A. Berle Jr. speaking at a Press Conference at the Overseas Press Club discussing the importance of the Hungarian Question in the United Nations and for American Foreign Policy. Left to right: Alexander Kutt, vice chairman of the ACEN; Leo Cherne, executive director of the Research Institute of America; Christopher Emmet chairman of ACEN; Mr. Berle and Msgr. Béla Varga president Hungarian National Council, 29 November 1955 562 At a ceremony launching the Foreign Language Drive of the Crusade for Freedom the nationality groups honor C.D.Jackson president of the National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc., 23 October 1951 Bernard Yarrow, Vice President of the Nationalities Division of the Free Europe Committee, Inc. visiting Radio Free Europe in Munich. 1962 563 Mojmír Povolný Chairman of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia 1974–1989 Jiří Horák and Mojmír Povolný 564 Mojmír Povolný speaks at the signing of the Czech-Polish Declaration on 19 January 1986 in London Leaders of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia meet with President Václav Havel 565 Ivan Medek and Mojmír Povolný The final meeting of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia in 1993 566 Michael I, the former King of Romania and his family 21 April 1955 Former King Michael of Romania and his mother Queen Elena, 10 January 1948 567 Ex Romanian Foreign Minister Grigore Nicolescu Buzesti, 1 December 1947 Romanian Peasant Leader Iliu Maniu April 1949 Former King Carol II of Romania and his wife Magda Lupescu, 1950 568 Vice President Richard M. Nixon visits with US bound refugees of the Hungarian Revolution in Austria 1 January 1957 Msgr. Béla Varga, Sir Leslie Munro, Christopher Emmett and Alexander Kutt discuss the Question of Hungary 569 Msgr. Béla Varga and Tibor Eckhardt of the Hungarian National Council meeting with Senator Brian Mcmahon in Washington D.C., 1 December 1947 Tibor Eckhardt, Zoltán Pfeiffer and László Acsay meeting in the Hungarian National Council Washington D.C. office, 1 December 1947 570 Hungarian Natioanal Council...