The Mont Pèlerin Society Röpke left behind at his death was in many ways unlike the one he had helped establish in the years after World War II. A society originally defi ned by its elite academic character had become, in the words of one of its members, "a businessmen's sort of trade association meeting." In 1947 only fi ve of its members were active academics born in North America, which gave rise to Hayek's initial concerns that the society was too exclusively oriented toward continental Eu rope; by the time of Röpke's death one member observed "within the Society an underlying suspicion, mistrust and even fear, of Anglo- Saxon, or more properly, Anglo- American domination."

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 374