In the ensuing weeks Rougier successfully persuaded Lippmann not to avoid future mutual endeavors, and in mid- July he sent a circular notice to potential participants in a conference centering on a discussion of Lippmann's The Good Society that he had scheduled for late August. The proposed "Conférence Walter Lippmann" (later formally christened the "Colloque Walter Lippmann") would be designed "to discuss the principal theses of this work relative to the decline of liberalism and to the conditions of a return to a renovated liberal order distinct from Manchester laissez faire." … Before Lippmann returned to America, and with a sense that the window of opportunity for effective action was rapidly closing, Rougier hoped to have established a formal program for future work on the creation of a new and constructive liberalism.

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 182