Template:Did you know nominations/World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace

World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace

 * ... that the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, a 1948 propaganda event organized by Polish and Soviet communists, led to the creation of the World Peace Council?
 * Comment: A number of alts are possible. For example
 * ALT1: ... that the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, a 1948 propaganda event organized by Polish and Soviet communist, accused the governments of USA and UK of working to destabilize the world? or
 * ALT2: ... that the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, a 1948 propaganda event organized by Polish and Soviet communist, aimed to influence the world's public opinion to adopt a more pro-Soviet and anti-American stance?

Created/expanded by User:Piotrus (talk). Self nom at 21:03, 24 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg QPQ is required. Hate to delay a review even longer, but let's have the QPQ in place first. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:39, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
 * My bad. Based on that data, the nom I reviewed was Template:Did you know nominations/Cyrus Todiwala. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:59, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol redirect vote4.png QPQ supplied; full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:08, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg interesting article,well sourced, Polish sources accepted AGF. What do you think of a less "theoretical" hook?
 * ALT3: ... that Julian Huxley, the first Director of UNESCO, left the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace in Wrocław in 1948? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:36, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I think (with all due respect, and de gustibus) it is much more boring than mine, but if you add the reason why he left, it may become better. PS. Please try to ping people on their talk if leaving comments here, thanks! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 16:26, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I stopped "pinging" when we got the templates that can be watch-listed individually. The original hook strikes me not as boring, but as "too peaceful", I don't read the conflict that the article contains, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Have just struck ALT1 and ALT2, as both are over the maximum 200 characters. Sorry I didn't notice this problem earlier. As an outside observer, I have to admit that neither remaining hook strikes me as particularly interesting (though the original is a bit more so than ALT3); I have made "communists" plural in the original, as it needs to be. Just glancing at the article, Einstein's censored letter immediately got my attention as a "hooky" fact, but I think the article ought to say who censored it and why, if that's in the source. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:26, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't believe that it was discussed in detail. I'll look later if it can be expanded, for now - I expanded it a little, for the ALT4 below. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 22:16, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ALT4: ... that Albert Einstein's letter to the 1948 World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace was censored to remove his call for a world government?
 * I like ALT4 a lot; thanks. I'll leave it to Gerda to finish the review, though. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:06, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg excellent ALT4, thank you both for thinking, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:11, 18 September 2012 (UTC)