BRACERS Record Detail for 61458
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Collection code
RA1
Class no.
430
Box no.
1.30
Recipient(s)
BR
Sender(s)
BBC
Newton, W.M.
Date
1949/01/18
Form of letter
TLS
Pieces
1
Notes and topics
Re BBC monitoring of a Moscow broadcast re BR.
Attached is a carbon ts. titled "B.B.C. Monitoring of Moscow Radio in English 17th January, 1949".
BR is called "a wolf in a dinner jacket", and reference is made to his Westminster School speech (B&R C49.01).
"A Moscow broadcast in Arabic described Lord Russell's broadcasts on the BBC as 'the philosophy of a man-eater'." "If a wolf could talk English, he would express himself much like Russell, who expounded the latest concept of imperialism from the angle of his own savage instincts."
"Hence, though pretending to belong to the Labour Party, they denounced the new Communist civilisation over the microphone."
Publication
Re B&R C49.01
Record no.
61458
Record created
Jun 05, 2014
Record last modified
May 27, 2015
Created/last modified by
duncana
