ABSTRACT
British public intellectuals and friends Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) and Julian Huxley (1887–1975) were two significant peace advocates of the twentieth century. Russell is arguably best known for his peace activism during World War I and the nuclear disarmament campaign of the Cold War. Huxley is often remembered as a conservationist and also as the first Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Touring in the early 1950s, Russell and Huxley drew substantial media interest, admiration from local politicians, correspondence from the public, and vast crowds both in major metropolitan centers such as New York and London, as well as "peripheral" cities such as Canberra and Karachi. Russell's and Huxley's celebrity, combined with their anti-communism, allowed a liberal idea of international cooperation to remain publicly visible around the non-communist, and also non-aligned world during the early 1950s.
