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