“Krygier’s great achievement was the founding of Quadrant. Its conception was in 1955 in the Russian Tea Room on West 57th Street, Manhattan, where he met with IrvingKristol, the editor of Encounter, to discuss the Australian situation. You should start a magazine! Kristol said. Like Encounter! Krygier wrote to the Paris office of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and asked for a subsidy. MalcolmMuggeridge, who had returned from his first visit to Australia, supported Krygier and told the Congress executive that this was an idea whose time had come.”