W.J Weatherby, ‘Literary Politics’, Guardian, May 3rd, 1962, p. 9

Article on the ‘Prix Formentor conference’ described in the article as ‘the most important [conference] in literary politics after the Nobel Prize’.

Mentions JB arriving late to the conference: ‘Mr Baldwin was a day late, so the American delegation asked for an adjournment of the session on American literature. This was at once granted when it was explained that Mr Baldwin’s absence was due to this dining at the White House. The other delegations, however, took this as a gloomy omen of Mr Baldwin’s powers as a politician’.