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- ↑ This international expansion in prizes awarded was connected to the controversial founding of the Permanent Council for the International Co-operation of Composers under Richard Strauss, of which Herbert Bedford acted as co-Secretary. This organisation was accused at the time of furthering Nazi Party cultural ambitions, set up in opposition to the non-political International Society for Contemporary Music. Fanning, David (ed.). The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945 Bedford defended its neutrality (see Bedford, Herbert. Letter to The Musical Times, February 1936, p 159.
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