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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1263
Source if not BR
McMaster U., Russell Archives Staff
Recipient(s)
Blackwell, Kenneth
Sender(s)
Copleston, Frederick C.
Date
1971/06/15
Form of letter
TLS
Pieces
2
Notes, topics or text

Copleston writes of his memories of the 1948 Amsterdam International Philosophical Congress. ArnĂ´st Kolman in his speech gave "Bertrand Russell as an example of an ivory tower philosopher. Russell was sitting near me, and I could see that he was indignant, as indeed he had every right to be. When Kolman had finished his diatribe against the United States, several people spoke against him, among them Russell. Russell said something like 'When you get back to the place that you came from, tell your masters that the next time they send a propagandist to the West they had better send somebody with more brains than you seem to possess. You say that you are bringing values to the West, but your only decent statesman (Jan Masaryk) has just thrown himself, or been thrown, from a window'."

Permission
Everyone
Record no.
121875
Record created
Jun 21, 2014
Record last modified
Aug 17, 2020
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duncana