Rotblat writes to BR concerning Wayland Young.

Rotblat did not want to suspend Young without first providing him another opportunity to cooperate, thus waiting for Young to return from Geneva. Young, in a letter, refused to cooperate and contacted Powell and Mott to intervene. Rotblat has met with Powell and Mott, who both agree that Young should be suspended.

"Unfortunately, Powell, who privately agrees entirely with me, did not want to tackle the matter himself and suggested that Mott should convey the message to Young. Knowing Mott's attitude to Young this was bound to produce the wrong result. I don't know what Mott had told him, but I received this morning a letter from Young in which he says that he and Mott have thought of a compromise about the History which will make it possible for us to go ahead together. This is, of course, entirely unacceptable to me. I do not want any compromise, since the issue is not about the publicity of the book, but about a principal difference of opinion on Pugwash itself."

Rotblat is concerned as, in Young's letter, he mentioned going to Moscow to discuss with Topchiev the idea of writing a novel on Pugwash, which greatly worries Rotblat. He asks BR if he would write to Topchiev about this issue.