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Collection code
RA1
Class no.
971
Box no.
4.24
Recipient(s)
"University Pacifism"
Sender(s)
Macleod, R.H.
Date
1916/03/08
Form of letter
PD
Pieces
1
Notes, topics or text

A newsclip column from the Morning Post, 9 March 1916, p. 6, titled "University Pacifism. A Conspiracy of Cranks." It concerns the Cambridge branch of the Union of Democratic Control (U.D.C.). Macleod, who published anonymously, is sufficiently identified in G.H. Hardy, Bertrand Russell and Trinity, p. 17.

"It is true that two of the most dangerous protagonists are no longer in residence. Mr. G. Lowes Dickinson is in America on some mysterious mission; the Hon. Bertrand Russell is supposed to be in London working on the National Council against Conscription. A recently-issued leaflet, which put the numbers of Cambridge adherents at 170 (of whom about 130 were in residence), bears the following signatures: C.F. Angus, J. Baker, E. Cunningham, G. Lowes Dickinson, G.H. Hardy, B.A. Howard, L.E. Matthaei, E. Power, Bertrand Russell, and R.R. Sedgwick."

Baker, Matthei and Power were women (the letter says 3 signatories were women).

The leaflet has not been found.

Filed
1916 Miscellaneous
Publication
B&R F lead
Russell letter no.
0666
Permission
Everyone
Record no.
131028
Record created
Jan 18, 2016
Record last modified
Feb 05, 2016
Created/last modified by
duncana