Jean-Paul Sartre becomes head of the Organization to Defend Iranian Political Prisoners(ODIPP).
Michael Moorcock becomes editor of the science fiction magazine New Worlds.
W. H. Auden describes his "Vision of Agape" (June 1933) in his preface to the anthology The Protestant Mystics.
Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is allowed to circulate legally in the United States by the U.S. Supreme Court three decades after its original publication in France.