International Association of Democratic Lawyers

International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL): Like WFDY and the IUS (see above), the International Association of Democratic Lawyers was born out of the hope for a lasting peace that followed World War II. But once the initial excitement had passed--the Association's founding in Paris in October 1946 had attracted eminent lawyers from outside the Communist movement--and the IADL had acquired the same "front" sobriquet as WFDY, the IUS, and their Festival, its publications eventually took a harder line. Anti-nuclear activism would remain a core theme for IADL-affiliated events and pamphlets (which were sparse by comparison to WFDY's and IUS's). But in keeping with a rhetorical and geographic reorientation by all communist fronts in the 1960s, anti-imperialism rose to the top of the IADL's agenda.