Bilderberg/1956

Fredensborg, Denmark

 Bilderberg/1956(Bilderberg/Meeting)

File:Bilderberg 1956.png The top of the 1956 guest list
Date	11 May 1956 - 13 May 1956
Location	Fredensborg, Denmark
Description	The 4th Bilderberg meeting, with 147 guests, in contrast to the generally smaller meetings of the 1950s. Has two Bilderberg meetings in the years before and after
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Participants	Prince Bernhard, Terence Airey, Robert André, Ralph Assheton, Prince Axel of Denmark, George Ball, Omer Becu, Fritz Berg, George Barry Bingham, Robert Blum, Pierre Bonvoisin, Robert Boothby, Max Brauer, Irving Brown, Fraser W. Bruce, Carl J. Burckhardt, Anthony Buzzard, Raffaele Cafiero, Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, Hakon Christiansen, Walker L. Cisler, René Clement-Cuzin, John S. Coleman, Auguste Cool, Geoffrey Crowther, Clement Davies, Arthur Hobson Dean, Fernand Dehousse, D. Sefton Delmer, Joseph N. Dodge, Jean Drapier, Pierre Dupuy, Fritz Erler, Amintore Fanfani, Maurice Faure, John H. Ferguson, Ralph E. Flanders, John Foster, Oliver Franks, Hugh Gaitskell, Robert L. Garner, C. J. Geddes, Gerhard P. Th. Geyer, Clinton S. Golden, Herbert Gross, Alfred M. Gruenther, Colin Gubbins, Baron J. Guillaume, Walter Hallstein, Gabriel Hauge, Jens Christian Hauge, Denis Healey, Michael Heilperin, Henry J. Heinz II, Rolf Heyn, H. M. Hirschfeld, Leif Høegh, Paul G. Hoffman, John Hope, H. Montgomery Hyde, Hastings Ismay, C. D. Jackson, Nelson Dean Jay, P. Kanellopoulos, P. J. Kapteyn, George F. Kennan, John Keswick, Kurt-Georg Kiesinger, E. N. van Kleffens, V. J. Koningsberger, Ole Bjørn Kraft, Jean Letourneau, P. M. A. Leverkuehn, Sjur Lindebrække, Edward Littlejohn, Giovanni F. Malagodi, Robert Marjolin, Edward S. Mason, Reginald Maudling, Andre Maurois, George C. McGhee, Alexander Menne, Finn Moe, Fritz P. Molden, Guy Mollet, Roger Motz, Rudolf Mueller, Robert Murphy, George Nebolsine, Paul Nitze, Keith Officer, Bertil Ohlin, J. H. Oldenbroek, H. Oosterhuis, J. J. Ooyevaar, Duncan Oppenheim, Cola Parker, Antoine Partrat, Giulio Pastore, George Perkins Jr, Jacques Piette, Harry Pilkington, Antoine Pinay, Panayotis Pipinelis, Alberto Pirelli, Pietro Quaroni, Alfred Robens, N. A. Robertson, David Rockefeller, Chester A. Ronning, Ludwig Rosenberg, Paolo Rossi, Denis de Rougemont, Dean Rusk, Pierre Ryckmans, Paul Rykens, Rickard Sandler, Gino Scarpa, Carlo Schmid, Ernst Georg Schneider, W. F. Schnitzler, John Slessor, Hans Günther Sohl, Joseph P. Spang Jr., John J. Sparkman, Charles Spofford, M. P. L. Sternberghe, Dolf Sternberger, Thomas Stone, Terkel Terkelsen, Herbert L. G. Tingsten, H. Troeger, Ruy Ennes Ulrich, Vittorio Valetta, Etienne de la Vallee Poussin, G. M. Verrijn Stuart, André Voisin, M. Waldenström, H. F. van Walsem, Clifton Webb, Francis O. Wilcox, Jean Willems, Tom Williamson, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Zafrulla Khan, Paul van Zeeland, J. D. Zellerbach

The 1956 Bilderberg Meeting was the 4^th such meeting and the first in Denmark. It had participants from Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It was held at Fredensborg, Denmark. The next Bilderberg was the February 1957 Bilderberg.

Meeting size

The size of the 1956 Bilderberg was unusually large; the meeting size was apparently still being researched. The previous meeting, the September 1955 Bilderberg Meeting was attended by 78 men. The guests included business executives, politicians, financiers, editors/journalists and academics. The next meeting was the 1957 February Bilderberg, which had just 75 guests.

Contributors

Richard A. Gard wrote a speech entitled Asia and the west in the free world.

Agenda

As of November 2017, the report of the 1956 Bilderberg has not yet been leaked online. However, the website at Bilderberg Meetings has the following agenda:

1. Review of developments since the last Conference

These included the Montgomery Bus Boycott (which started in December 1955)

2. The causes of the growth of anti-Western blocs, in particular in the United Nations

Note the April 1955 meeting in Bandung of populous Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent. This was an important event in the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement. Although only 29 states took part in Bandung, they contained the majority of the world's population.

4. A common approach by the Western world towards China and the emergent nations of South and East Asia

Note the April 1955 failure of the CIA to assassinate the Chinese premier and foreign minster Chou En-lai on the Kashmir Princess.

Guest list

The guest list includes the name of Guerin De Beaumont, who died in October 1955, suggesting that it was chosen over 6 months before the event.

Exposure

The guest list of the 1956 Bilderberg was found among Hugh Gaitskell's papers and posted on the internet.