Freedom Pavilion.

This article focuses on the Freedom Pavilion, which was to have been at the World's Fair, a great exhibition of the work of leading Germans artists and scientists thrown out of Germany for their race, religion, or politics in 1939. It was to show Americans the testimony of what a nation loses in the arts, science, medicine, education, religion, when it loses the freedom of democracy. The plans for the pavilion were presented to seventy prominent citizens at a cocktail party at the River House. Four days later, the whole project was dead. There has been much speculation about the reasons for it, mostly in terms of pressure groups and incipient fascism and special interests.