America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe

By V. Berghahn. 2001

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This book's central theme is the life and work of 'Shep' Stone (1908-1990), who occupied, for almost the entire duration of the Cold War, a central position among America's intellectual warriors. Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, and a graduate of Dartmouth College, Stone set off for the University of Berlin in 1929 and, by the end of the Weimar Republic, had obtained a doctorate in history under the redoubtable Hermann Oncken. Thereafter the stages of Stone's remarkable career were in some ways distinct, yet interconnected. From 1934 to 1949, he was a journalist specializing in German and European affairs, mainly for the New York Times : his media career was interrupted by service in military intelligence from 1942 onwards and, in the early months of post-war occupation, in helping to reconstruct the German press. From 1949 to 1952, he was again in Germany, in the key post of Director of Public Affairs under the high-powered American High Commissioner John J. McCloy. This brought him into close contact with the leading figures of the Federal Republic. From 1952 to 1967, Stone worked for the Ford Foundation (still in partnership with McCloy, now Chairman of the Foundation's Board), and soon became the head of its expanding operations in Europe, West and East. From 1967 to 1973, Stone was President of the Paris-based International Association for Cultural Freedom, the successor to the Congress for Cultural Freedom (sponsor of Encounter and a string of other publications), which was hurriedly wound up following the revelation that much of its funding had come from the CIA. Finally,

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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