Index 233 United Press 59 United World Federalists 78–9 US labour unions, benefits of productivity to Europe 49 US Strategic Bombing Survey in Germany 122 US-European alliance 113 US-European relations, post-war 2 USA 8–9; $3.75 billion loan to Britain (1946) 46; atomic weaponry and 43; backing for European NCL 117; belief in threat from Soviet communism 81; configuration of economic development 44–7; cultural diplomacy 11; defender of the Free World and its cultural life 102; effect of united Western Europe 50–1; fear of European Third Force 51; foreign policy against political left 72–3; from isolationism to internationalism 48, 67; Gramsci and 10; loyalty oaths 37; politicaleconomic elite 28; public relations campaign (1948) 61; relations with USSR (1946–7) 34, 42; touring exhibition of American Art (1947) 63 USSR 9, 39, 43; efforts to discredit US and Western powers 69; post-war disillusionment with 90 Vichy Circles 106 Vienna seminar (September 1958), ‘Workers’ Participation in Management’ 157 Vietnam 165–6 Vital Center, The (1949) 41–2, 77, 108, 142 Voice of America 54, 61 Wagnleitner, R. 59, 62 Waldorf Astoria Hotel (New York) conference (1949) 94, 96, 133, 137 Wall Street Crash, lessons of unchecked financial instability 45 ‘war for civilisation’ 48 Weimar intelligentsia, Der Monat and 103 Weltwoche, Die 118
West Germany, Christian Democratic party 108 Western Europe, American Fordist model and 49; American political and economic superiority 166; anchored in Western alliance 155; ‘Atlantic Union’ with USA 46; centre-left/centre-right politics (1950s) 140; CIA and 81; contest between post-war ideologies of reconstruction 51–2; freedom 66; need for enlightened public opinion 54; overt and covert reconstruction 71–2; popularity of Christian Democratic parties 108; Socialists and Christian Democrats 51 Western intellectuals, admiration for Soviet Union 152 Wiles, Peter 149, 151–2, 155 Williams, Raymond 2, 6, 12, 29–30 Wisner, Frank 73, 75, 79, 116, 133; attitude to Burnham’s anti-communism 107, 110; Cominform operations and 96; Josselson’s proposal to 100–1; OPC and 69, 77, 96, 116 Wolfe, Alan 38, 47 World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace (Wroclaw, Poland 1948) 87, 93–4, 128 World Congress of Writers (Paris June 1935) 87 World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) 75 World Peace Congress (Paris April 1949) 96 World Peace Congress (Stockholm 1950) 98 world peace offensive, action and reaction 86–98 Wozzeck 132 Yale 79 Yalta conference (February 1945) 34 Zeit, Die 113 Zhdanov, Andrei 13, 86–8, 133 Zukunft, Die 125