Century Group
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 Century Group(Lobby)   | |
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| Successor | Fight For Freedom Committee |
| Formation | 1940 |
| Extinction | 1941 |
| Membership | • Francis Pickens Miller • Henry P. Van Dusen • Lewis W. Douglas • Ulric Bell • Ward Cheney • Herbert Agar • Geoffrey Parsons • Major George Fielding Eliot • John L. Balderston •  Joseph Alsop• Elmer Davis • William L. Clayton • Whitney Hart Shepardson • James P. Warburg • George Watts Hill • Frank L. Polk •  Dean G. Acheson•  Allen W. Dulles• James B. Conant • .jpg){kind=small} Ernest M. Hopkins• William Agar •  Henry Sloane Coffin• Henry W. Hobson •  Henry R. Luce• Harold Guinzburg • Robert E. Sherwood • Walter Wanger • William H. Standley |
| A pro-allied interventionist group active in the United States prior to American entry into World War Two. | |
The Century Group was a pro-allied interventionist group active in the United States prior to American entry into World War Two.
The group evolved over the summer of 1940 out of the earlier Miller Group which had met at the home of Francis Pickens Miller in June that year. It took its name from the exclusive Century Club in New York City where it met. By the spring of 1941 it had evolved into the Fight for Freedom Committee. In this form it was claimed as a British front in a 1941 report by SOE agent Sydney Morrell.[1]
Known members
14 of the 28 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Dean Acheson | US deep state operative who was the 51st Secretary of State |
| Joseph Alsop | Influential journalist very close to the CIA |
| John Balderston | |
| William Clayton | |
| Henry Sloane Coffin | leading liberal Presbyterian leader. Bonesman. |
| James Bryant Conant | |
| Lewis Douglas | US diplomat |
| Allen Dulles | Dulles served the longest ever term as Director of Central Intelligence and dominated American intelligence for a generation. He personified a cadre of Ivy League pragmatic elitists in high echelons of the government who greatly admired Germany’s scientific achievements.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> Dulles was fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs and bore a grudge against him thereafter. |
| Ernest Hopkins | President of Dartmouth College from 1916 to 1945. |
| Henry Luce | |
| Francis Pickens Miller | Hawkish spook |
| Frank Polk | |
| Whitney Hart Shepardson | |
| James Warburg |
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