Hans Thirring

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1948-1951 In the year 1948, Einstein invited United World Federalists, Inc. (UWF) president Cord Meyer to a meeting of ECAS[19][20] and joined UWF as a member of the Advisory Board.[21][22] Einstein and ECAS assisted UWF in fundraising[22] and provided supporting material.[23][24] Einstein described United World Federalists as: "the group nearest to our aspirations".[25] Einstein and other prominent figures such as Gerhard Domagk, Robert Hutchins, Kerstin Hesselgren, John Steinbeck, William Beveridge, Hu Shih, Albert Camus, Toyohiko Kagawa, Yehudi Menuhin, Jacques Maritain, John Boyd Orr, Thomas Mann, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Roberto Rossellini and Hans Thirring sponsored the Peoples' World Convention (PWC) also known as Peoples' World Constituent Assembly (PWCA), which took place in 1950–51[26][27] and later continued in the form of world constituent assemblies in 1968, 1977, 1978-79, and 1991.[11][28] 500 people from 45 countries attended the Peoples' World Convention (PWC) at Palais Electoral, Geneva, Swi