Edwards tells BR he refused the war quite late. He found it wrong to "descend to the requisite animal depths of fear, to kill men".

He believes that his psychological reactions necessitated his pacifism and so he cannot rationally explain his stance. He wants to work in progressive education and asks BR for counsel on what he could do post-war (possibly writing from a hospital).

Edwards mentions "seeing your article in the Crusader". Edwards' return address is RAMC, 103, BR. Gen. Hosp. Cm 7. (RAMC is Royal Army Medical Corps.) (The Crusader was an Armed Forces newspaper, the Eighth Army weekly, published from 2 May 1942 to 26 May 1946, nos. 1-208. Colindale has it. It reprinted, fairly intact, "Bertrand Russell on the Problems of Peace" in the issue of 6 May 1945.)