Harvard/International Seminar/1954

Harvard/International Seminar/1954
Membership	•  Willfred A Gredleri •  Raymond E. Nossent •  Peter Ilse •  Said Zayed •  Michael Ayrton •  Denis Mack Smith •  Will Nally •  Geoffrey D. Taylor •  Marguerite Castillon du Perron •  Valery Giscard d'Estaing •  Paul Serant •  Rainer Gruenter •  Dirk Oncken •  Wolfgang Philipp •  Juergen C. Weichert •  B. V. Krishnamurthy •  S. S. Marathe •  P. S. Sundaram •  Asrul Sani •  Mohammad Mo'in •  Franco Ferrante •  Cesare Mannucci •  Antonia Pasolini •  Hidetoshi Kato •  Nobuo Nakanishi •  Sumiko Tanaka •  Ryuzo Ueda •  Ho-Min Yang •  Syed Moinul Haq •  Khalid M. Ishaque •  Ramon C. Fernandez •  Priscilio M. Mejia •  Jose Antonio e Monfort Acebal •  Luis Aranda •  Kenneth Keniston •  James L. Houghteling Jr •  Stuart Colie

These are the participants from 1954 for the yearly International Seminar led by Henry Kissinger at Harvard University.. The fully paid six week stay had as one of its purposes to "establish better understanding among a select group of people who will be in top leadership roles in their countries in the years ahead". Approximately half are from the field of the humanities and half in politics and economics.

For next year's cadre, see Harvard/International Seminar/1955. For the previous year, see Harvard/International Seminar/1953. For an overview of the program itself, see Harvard/International Seminar.

Participants

• Dr. Willfred A Gredleri - Member of Parliament; Director Trusteeship Corp.; General Secretary of European League of Economic Cooperation; Publications: Articles on European Integration, minority problems, etc.
• Raymond E. Nossent - Member of Parliament; Barrister, Court of Appeal in Brussels; Vice President of the Commission of Justice of the Chamber; Member) Town Council of Ixelles; Publications: Articles on juridical and political matters.
• Peter Ilse -Adviser on international economic questions to Joint Chief of Danish Defence; Publications: "Engles Laws" published in Det danske marked; Phamphlets on economic development in Poland and Czechoslovakia and reports to Danish Foreign Policy Society and periodicals.
• Said Zayed - Editor, Egyptian Academy for the Arabic Language; Publications: Numerous contributions to Al-Azhar Magazine on philosophical topics.
• Michael Ayrton - Artist, author, book illustrator) theatre designer, broadcaster, lecturer; Publications: The heritage of British Painting, 1946; A Master of Pastiche (An Essay on the influence of Picasso)) 1946; Marc Chagall, 194d; Degas, 1953, and others; Theatrical productions designed: Macbeth, 754-7; Le Festin de l'Araignee (A ballet with music by Albert Roussel), 1944; and others; Principal books illustrated: The Duchess of Malfil 1945; The Poems.of John Keats, 1948; Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1948, and others.
• Denis Mack Smith - Assistant Lecturer, Cambridge University; Fellow and tutor, College of PeterhOuse, Cambridge University; Publications: Cavour and Garibaldi, 1860; A history of Italy, 1860-1950.
• Will Nally - Member of Parliament; Journalist; Publications: A number of Consumer Co-operative and associated studies.
• Geoffrey D. Taylor - Chief foreign sub-editor, Manchester Guardian.
• Marguerite Castillon du Perron - Author; Publications: Articles published in Revue des Deux Mondes, Miroir de l'Histoire, and Revue de l'Institut Napoleon. Enfants royaux d'aujourd'huil 1953; La Princesse Mathilde, 1953.
• Valery Giscard d'Estaing - Inspection Generale des Finances, Ministere des Finances. Connected with control of public accountants and organization of financial services. Future President of France
• Paul Serant - pen name of Paul Salleron -journalist for Radiodiffusion Francaise, Foreign Service; Assistant Editor of Federation (a monthly review); Publications: Le Meutre Rituel, a novel;
• Dr. Rainer Gruenter - Lecturer, Department of German Studies, University of Cologne, with emphasis on medieval and modern German literature; Publications:.Articles•- "Zum Problem der literarischen Kritik," Neue Literarische Welt, 31/12/52; "Osbert Sitwells Memoiren," Merkur, 1951, No. 39; "The Enchafed Flood von W. H. Auden," Merkur, 1954, No. 72; and numerous other articles and book reviews.
• Dirk Oncken -Member of German Foreign Service in Bonn; Assistant Editor, Die Gegenwart, 1948-49; Former Director, German Civil Liberties Union. Publications: .The Imperialistic Motive in German Politics before 1914.
• Wolfgang Philipp - Lecturer of Systematic Theology and Religious Folklore. . Student Chaplain of the University of Marburg; PUblications: The Estimation of Woman or Matriarchy (1942);-Dying and Resurrecting Gods, in Greater Europe (burnt in manuscript); The Christian Churches of the World (1951)1 The Trinity as an Anthropological Category (3 vols, not yet printed); Enlightenment -and Miracle (3 vols, not yet printed).
• Juergen C. Weichert - Secretary, Foreign Affairs Committee and Secretary on the All-German Affairs Committee of the Western German Parliament; Member of the temporary staff of the Assembly of the European Steel and Coal Community; Publications: .jeglicher Tag, 1948 (fiction), and Kreuzveg, 1951 (fiction).
• B. V. Krishnamurthy -Professor and lecturer in Economics, School of Economics and Sociology, University of Bombay; Publications: .Pricing in Planned Economy, 1949.
• S. S. Marathe -Senior Assistant Secretary of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. (central commercial and industrial organization in India - consulted by Government on matters of economic and financial policies); Publications: "Social Accounting," published, in Economic Weekly, January 1951.
• P. S. Sundaram - Member, Orissa Public Service Commission (corresponds to Civil Service Commission in England). . Editing work for Patria and Utkal Universities.
• Asrul Sani - Editor, Siasat (Indonesian weekly), Djakarta, in charge of cultural section; Co-editor of Zenith, a new monthly for art and literature. Member, Production Board of PERSARI-FILM: Publications: Collection of Poems and Essay on Short Stores.
• Mohammad Mo'in - Professor of Persian Literature, University of Teheran, Iran; Publications: Preface to Diwan of Hafiz, 1939; Hafiz and Study of his Works, 1940; Editor of numerous anthologies of Persian prose, translations; Mazdaism and its Influence upon Persian Literature, 1947, and other books on Persian literature.
• Franco Ferrante - Judge of the Milan Court (First Chamber); Member, Centro di prevenzione e difesa sociale and Head of the Foreign Relations Dept.; Publications: Numerous articles in Foro dei TriblinAli, Foro Italiano, Rivista della Proprieta Intellecttuale ed Industriale,. Monito re dei tribunali, Giurisprudenza Italiana, and Monitore dei Tribunali.
• Cesare Mannucci - Ministry of Labor; Attache, personal secretary of the Minister; Member of the Comitato d'Iniziativa, created by the national convention of "Abolire la miseria." Publications: Articles in Mondo Economico, Giustizia, and Assistenza D'Oggi.
• Antonia Pasolini - Writer, journalist, Translator for publishers, radio, Literary magazines; Publications: . Essays - 'Vernon Lee and fin-de-siede aestheticism in Oxford and Cambridge", 1945; an introductory essay to her translation of Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp", 1947; Introductory essay to translation of Virginia Woolf's,"The Haunted House," 1948, and critical essay on the "Prdblems of Theatre," Lo Spettatore Italiano, March, 1951.
• Hidetoshi Kato - Assistant, Research Institute of Humanistic Science, Kyoto University; presently studying social psychological aspect of Japanese people; Publications: "Communication research in Japanese popular songs, "The Science of ThoufAht, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1950; "Content analysis of 'life counselling' in contemporary Japan," The ME Magazine, No. 8, 1953; "Philosophy of Japanese Politicians," first published. in Chuo Koron, May 1953, later compiled in book Contemporary Japanese, 1953; and others.
• Nobuo Nakanishi - Vice Principal of the Toyo Commercial High School; 1946-48, analyst and translator for the Document Dtvision, International Prosecution Section, GHQ, SCAP; Publications: Practical R., lish Conversation, 1945.
• Mrs. Sumiko Tanaka - Chief, Women's Section, Women's & Minors' Bureau, Ministry of Labor; Publications: Japanese translation of,Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, 1932, and Natural Superiority of Women by Ashley Montague, 1954.
• Ryuzo Ueda - Foreign Department, The Sanwa Bank Ltd.
• Ho-Min Yang Seoul, Korea. Lecturer of political science in the Chosen Theological Seminary; Publications: The History and Theory of Communism, Nationalism in Korea, and On the Soviet Democracy.
• Syed Moinul haq - Secretary, Board of Editors, History of Freedom Movement; Permanent Director of Research, Pakistan Historical Society; Formerly, Professor in Department of History and Political Science at Aligarh Muslim University; Publications: .Ancient India, A Short History of the Delhi Sultanate, Life of Abu Bakr, and.Tazharatul Wagiat.
• Khalid M. Ishaque - Advocate, Chief Court of Sind and Karachi; Publications: Articles in Urdu and English appearing in Pakistan Quarterly, and Other periodicals.
• Ramon C. Fernandez - Lawyer; President of Legaspi College, and instructor in law; Publications: .Commentaries on Law of Obligations and Contracts, and Law of Succession and Administration.
• Priscilio M. Mejia - Public Relations Officer, Office of Economic Coordination (direct supervision of government-owned corporations in public relations); Publications:"Progress Report, on the P200 Million Advances of the Central Bank of the Philippines to the Government's Economic Development Projects.
• Jose Antonio e Monfort Acebal - Professor of Economic Theory, Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences, teaching Economic Theory and International trade.
• Luis Aranda - Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Madrid; Publications: Prologue and translation of Toyhbee's The World and the West1-1953; Prologue and translation of Spencer's The Man versus the State, 1953; Prologue and translation with notes of Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Prologue and new translation of W. James's Pragmatism to be printed shortly.
• Kenneth Keniston - Graduate of Harvard University, 1951; Rhodes Scholar, Oxford, England, 1951-53; Junior Fellow, Harvard University, 1953 - .
• James L. Houghteling Jr - Assistant Professor of Economics, Carndgi Institute of Technology Pittsburg, Pa. Formerly with EGA (Marshall Plan, Washington and Paris) 1948-52.
• Stuart Colie - Graduate student at Princeton University, working on Ph.D. dissertation in politics; Formerly pUblic opinion analyst with Office of Public Affairs in U.S, High Commission in Germany, 1950-52; Publications: Report on public opinion research and foreign policy analysis for Office of Psychological Research, Princeton.

Maybe member

• Winifred Wheable-Archer UK Labour politician.

 

Known members

2 of the 37 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Valery Giscard d'Estaing	President of France from 1974 to 1981, Bilderberger
Kenneth Keniston	US academic who spoke on "youth" at the 1969 Bilderberg

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