Conservatives Meet in Rome

E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

I have a real horror of congresses, public gatherings, and all larger meetings, so it was with certain hesitation that I accepted an invitation from the Casa di Vita Italiana to a meeting of rightist novelists, essayists, political scientists and journalists in Rome. There were about 50 participants, mostly from Latin countries: Frenchmen, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Goans, South Americans, Belgians, Rumanians-in-exile; but also a few Greeks, a Moslem lady from Algeria, and my humble self. The original intent was to restrict the meeting to the Latin world (with frills) because it seemed undesirable to cover too large a territory and too many subjects. But at the conclusion of the mid-May Congress (formally called the Roman Meeting on Culture), it was decided to dispense in future with the Latin frame and to extend its activities to the Western world.

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E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

I have a real horror of congresses, public gatherings, and all larger meetings, so it was with certain hesitation that I accepted an invitation from the Casa di Vita Italiana to a meeting of rightist novelists, essayists, political scientists and journalists in Rome. There were about 50 participants, mostly from Latin countries: Frenchmen, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Goans, South Americans, Belgians, Rumanians-in-exile; but also a few Greeks, a Moslem lady from Algeria, and my humble self. The original intent was to restrict the meeting to the Latin world (with frills) because it seemed undesirable to cover too large a territory and too many subjects. But at the conclusion of the mid-May Congress (formally called the Roman Meeting on Culture), it was decided to dispense in future with the Latin frame and to extend its activities to the Western world.