BRACERS Record Detail for 124927

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1715
Source if not BR
Columbia U. Libraries
Recipient(s)
Levitas, S.M.
New Leader, The
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1944/03/03
Form of letter
ALS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
PRN
Notes and topics

BR asks Levitas to change the phrasing in a script from "the quarrel between President and Congress" to "the new forms of what were formerly isolationist opinions" so that it does not seem as though he has views on the upcoming Presidential election. [In fact, the original phrase was unaltered in the article finally published on 12 August.]

Transcription

BR TO THE NEW LEADER / S.M. LEVITAS, 3 MAR. 1944
BRACERS 124927. ALS(X). Columbia U. Libraries
Proofread by K. Blackwell


<letterhead>
PEACOCK INN
TWENTY BAYARD LANE
PRINCETON, N.J.
March 3, 1944

Dear Mr. Levitas

In the MS of my broadcast of Feb. 2, which I asked Mr. Shapiro to give you, there is, near the beginning, a phrase which, for important reasons, I wish you to alter. The phrase is “the quarrel between President and Congress”. Please change it to “the new forms of what were formerly isolationist opinions”. I do not wish to seem to have views on the coming Presidential election.

I hope you can make this change for me.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

Publication
Re B&R C44.12
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
124927
Record created
Apr 16, 2014
Record last modified
Sep 27, 2023
Created/last modified by
duncana