At the end of the 1940s, Van Breda managed to enlist the support of philosophers from all over the world in order to apply for long-term financial aid from the international organization UNESCO. Merleau-Ponty, Katz, Buytendijk, Gurwitsch, Plessner, Berger, Ricoeur, Schütz, Landgrebe, Fink, Ingarden and many others sent recommendation letters to the UNESCO (see below the part of David Katz’s letter to the UNESCO).
– As a result of the successful application in 1950 the first Husserliana volume („Cartesianische Meditationen“) was published with the financial support of the UNESCO.
