P.E.N. CONGRESS STARTS HERE TOMORROW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400200010-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 12, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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JUN 1 2 1966 ?
N 1~ W 1'CyR,Xt
DAILY NRV4''S
~iliodcrn challenges to the' liter- dependent Spirit."; Roundtable
~;ary man-including television, ~ discussions will be held through-
out the week.
censorship and the' social sciences David Carter, general secretary
-will be discussed by 600 writers
from 60 countries in a week-long
congress opening tomorrow at
the Locb Student Center at New
York University.
u es ~R_e?d.9~,~,~-~~ellat, ion?
International P.E.N. President
~. r~.~:kllul'.,..~~lll~.l'.,? the playwright,
'.and prize-wmmng novelist Saul
`.Bellow will open the 34th annual
:congress with addresses. Bellow
will discuss the theme of th
writers. Miller, who sand he felt !,
"adme censorship" exists fn every
country,- was Hopeful that a'
P.E.N. center might bo organized
in M,oseow and that ft would help
bring ~ about .more freedom Then.
t meeting "The Writer, as an In- to two jailed anti-government!
of P.E.N., said .yesterday "it is
very regrettable" that an ex-
pected delegation of six Soviet
observers would not 'attend the
congress.
A P.E.N. spokesman said the
Russians confirmed by letter June
3 that they would attend, then
canceled their visit, without ex-
planation, by cable last week.
Carter said he ~~ad been in Mos-,
cow recently to urge. the Soviet
governm0nt to ? extend clemency
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