This paper deals with the effort of well known American and French intellectuals to develop an independent radical movement that rejects the domination of either super-power in the developing Cold War and committed to internationalism and non-alignment. . The important figures are Dwight Macdonald, Mary McCarthy , Alfred Kazin, Nicola Chiaromonte, Albert Camus, Andrea Caffi, David Rousett, Boris Souvarine, Gino and Andrea Delacourt and others associated with the Révolution Prolétarienne. But as the Cold War heated up a group of the original associates broke away and formed a faction under Sidney Hook and Nicholas Nabokov that opposed the independence of the Europe American group and through infighting and subsequent support by the Congress of Cultural Freedom and the CIA the attempt to create a genuine independent group of international radicals was defeated and the organization withered away. But for a brief period there was a lively association between the American and French intellectuals and some very revealing and interesting correspondence.