BRACERS Record Detail for 120992
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BR cannot continue as one of the five honorary chairmen of the Congress for Cultural Freedom due to disagreement with accounts in the press and otherwise. "I should like, nevertheless, to assure you that I am in general sympathy with your work and that my disagreements, such as they are, concern only shades."
A typed copy of this letter is also in the file; it is also in Rec. Acq. 1161c, record 58140.
BR uses the German term "Kongress Kulturelle Freiheit" in addressing his letter to Lasky.
BR TO CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM / MELVIN J. LASKY, 30 AUG. 1950
BRACERS 120992. TLS(X). Chicago U. Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell
41, Queen’s Road,
Richmond, Surrey.
ENGLAND.
August 30, 1950
Melvin J. Lasky, Esq.,
Generalsekretar,
Kongress fur Kulturelle Freiheit,
Hotel am Steinplatz,
BERLIN-CHARLOTTENBURG 2
Dear Mr. Lasky,
Your letter of July 15 has only just come into my hands on my return from Australia.
Thank you for telling me what you did about the Congress. I am afraid I cannot continue as one of the five Honorary Chairmen of the permanent Congress commission. From the accounts which reached me through the Press and otherwise I feel that I could not be in entire agreement with the majority as expressed in the Congress, and I shall not be able to follow future proceedings sufficiently closely to know exactly to what I might become committed. I should like, nevertheless, to assure you that I am in general sympathy with your work and that my disagreements, such as they are, concern only fine shades.
Yours sincerely,
<signed> Bertrand Russell.
(Earl Russell)
