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“The Waldorf Conference.” Article by Dwight Macdonald. Politics 6 (winter), 32A-32D. Macdonald quotes Mailer’s 26 March statement to the March 25–27 conference concerning the state capitalism of Russia, the monopoly capitalism of the U.S. and the futility of the conference. Compare with Mailer’s remembrance of the conference in Advertisements for Myself (59.13), 409–10; a red-baiting article in Life, 4 April, 39–43. See also 13.2, 110-11.