Pablo Neruda and Pablo Picasso

70 years of the World Peace Council

LIZ PAYNE pays tribute to the WPC and its struggle against imperialist aggression as it enters its eighth decade this weekend

In 1949 in Paris, the huge assembly — including scientists, teachers, women’s rights activists, lawyers, trade unionists, writers, poets, actors, artists, musicians and students — were united in their condemnation of US-led imperialism as the root cause of war.


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Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/;^[1] Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), was a Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet-diplomat and politician.

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Two great men of the twentieth century Pablo Neruda and Pablo Picasso ..Neruda died 5 months of Picasso's death in September 23 1973

Once out of Chile, he spent the next three years in exile.^[20] In Buenos Aires, Neruda took advantage of the slight resemblance between him and his friend, the future Nobel Prize-winning novelist and cultural attaché to the Guatemalan embassy Miguel Ángel Asturias, to travel to Europe using Asturias' passport.^[34] Pablo Picasso arranged his entrance into Paris and Neruda made a surprise appearance there to a stunned World Congress of Peace Forces, while the Chilean government denied that the poet could have escaped the country

Pablo Picasso and Pablo Neruda at Paris 1949

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Paris and Prague 1949[edit]

The World Congress of Partisans for Peace in Paris (20 April 1949) repeated the Cominform line that the world was divided between "a non-aggressive Soviet group and a war-minded imperialistic group, headed by the United States government".^[4] It established a World Committee of Partisans for Peace, led by a twelve-person Executive Bureau and chaired by Professor Frédéric Joliot-Curie, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, High Commissioner for Atomic Energy and member of the French Institute. Most of the Executive were Communists.^[2][5] One delegate to the Congress, the Swedish artist Bo Beskow [sv], heard no spontaneous contributions or free discussions, only prepared speeches, and described the atmosphere there as "agitated", "aggressive" and "warlike".^[9] A speech given at Paris by Paul Robeson—the polyglot lawyer, folksinger, and actor son of a runaway slave—was widely misquoted in the American press as stating that African Americans should not and would not fight for the United States in any prospective war against the Soviet Union; following his return, he was subsequently blacklisted and his passport confiscated for years.^[10] The Congress was disrupted by the French authorities who refused visas to so many delegates that a simultaneous Congress was held in Prague."^[5] Robeson's performance of "The March of the Volunteers" in Prague for the delegation from the incipient People's Republic of China was its earliest formal use as the country's national anthem.^{[citation needed]} Picasso's lithograph, La Colombe (The Dove) was chosen as the emblem for the Congress^[11]and was subsequently adopted as the symbol of the WPC.