The Peaceable Gypsies by Daniel Lang December 21, 1963 The New Yorker Daniel Lang under "A Reporter at Large" describes the Pugwash Conference held in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia and the gathering of brilliant scientists and scholars "who were temporarily abandoning their formal studies ... to convene as a kind of parliament with portfolio." The delegates focused on "such topics as atom-free zones, the test-ban treaty, problems of detection, the abolition of delivery systems, and -- the most formidable topic of all -- general and complete disarmament."
1956 Conference on the Middle East hosted in Pugwash by Eaton after Suez Canal is taken over: Cyrus Eaton’s Hideaway for Brains” published on October 27, 1956, in Maclean’s Canada’s National Magazine, Ian Sclanders wrote about the Middle East Conference in Pugwash shortly after the Egyptian president, Nasser, had seized the Suez Canal, giving new dimensions to old fears, hatred, suspicions and prejudices.”
