"No".

BR is sorry he used the phrase "Christian love" [presumably in the 1950 lecture at Columbia].

Alys is glad BR can visit on the 13th. The only other visitor will be Rukhmaban, who does not count as a visitor.

Alys is reading Green's Prolegomena.

Alys has received the pamphlet (presumably that by McTaggart).

BR clarifies his nuclear and "world authority" policies in regard to Henry Usborne's expected letter to the editor. (BR's letter did not appear.)

She has had no reproaches from Almighty.

BR sends Usborne a copy of his letter to The Observer (see record 123307) on nuclear disarmament and a world authority to keep it that way.

BR mentions Wisdom of the West under the title Quest of the West. Blackett has approved Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. BR invites Unwin to tea.

BR does not know any literature about Beacon Hill School and does not think there is anything interesting to say about it. He does possess the required "practical and administrative talents".

Davis's letter ("so long unanswered") cannot be found in BRACERS.

On the topic of absolute motion BR has yielded to authority and Einstein, but still feels a certain uneasiness.

BR agrees there are economic obstacles to disarmament, but people need to be persuaded "that modern armaments involve a risk of utter disaster to everybody."

Alys's mother and Lady Russell talked yesterday.

Telephone. [Send] cheque.

Alys can and does say anything to her mother.

She will be on the S.S. Paris sailing from Southampton on Oct. 7. She asks BR to send a letter to the steamer so she can have it on the voyage.

BR thanks Patrick for notepaper "with the above address".

Alys writes from the S.S. Paris. The voyage has been rough so far.

The clipping reports the arrival in Chicago of Lady Henry Somerset, accompanied by Miss Pearsall Smith.

Alys asks BR to come to London to spend the night of Nov. 4.

"Japanese atomic resolutions" are to be sent to Duff.

Alys has had fun dealing with reporters re the Temperance Convention in Chicago.

"Cheque".

Alys knows she cannot post this letter until she lands. Her ship is the R.M.S. Teutonic.

"Only when women can choose marriage deliberately as the best and happiest life, but not because it is the only happy life, will marriage become what it ought to be."

BR hopes the "Box Holder" will write his film story, which certainly has possibilities.

BR cannot consult an article for Prof. Hagan as he is away from home.

"No".

Alys will not act as if she distrusts BR, when if in fact she does trust him.

BR agrees to appear on "Right to Reply" on Feb. 16. "I am willing to meet any opponent that you care to select."

However, BR prefers it to be a Conservative and prefers not to be the attacker.

Enclosed with this letter is a clipping of a letter to the Westminster Gazette. The letter, from J.J.A. Drake, is dated Nov. 15 and titled "The Response to Lady Henry Somerset's Appeal". The long list of donors includes: "Hon. B. Russell and friends (per L. Pearsall Smith, Esq., London), £11". A second clipping seems to have no relevance.

Alys says Drake's letter was written "before your £5 reached Logan".

She asks if BR means there is no political truth in saying that political opinions cannot be maintained on reasonable grounds.

Lady Russell is devoted to BR, Alys says, as a result of her mother visiting Lady Russell.

Immediately following this letter in the file is a microfilm print of a card announcing a speech by Alys at the opening of the Young People's Branch of the British Women's Temperance Association, 13 November.

It seems Alys and BR are subjected to a rule that they cannot meet more often than monthly.

BR is not sufficiently acquainted with the works of John Cowper Powys to support him for a Nobel Prize.

BR hopes Ottino's "agitation in Switzerland will prosper".

Translation rights in a certain book belong to the publisher.

Alys suggests that she and BR read one canto of Dante each time they meet.

Ottino's letter is to be sent to Unwin with a copy of BR's reply at record 123345.

BR mentions the Martyrs Memorial to Tyburn in Oxford.

BR approves the typescript of Zemenides' interview with BR.

Alys feels sure Lady Russell would rather have BR at home on Sunday to go to church with her.

Alys changes their arrangements.

On engagement vs. friendship.

The date was changed from the 19th to the 18th to match the day, Monday.

"If you could sit upon me hard [in discussion or argument], I should like you so much better for it."

"I never read anything so interesting as your father's journal—it certainly is most uncanny, so like you."

Alys's resolution for the new year is "to let myself be as happy as thee is."

Encouraging message on rationalism in America—"to be copied in B's handwriting".

BR does not feel that Paul Edwards is too young to give a lecture on BR for Gruber's occasion. "I find it gratifying to be thought well of by people who are not, as I am said to be, superannuated."

BR thanks Clunie for his review of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare and wishes the Labour Party's official policy were more friendly to nuclear disarmament.

BR failed to see Westhoff at the congress. BR hopes his wife's pamphlets will be publicized.

BR declines to go to Japan to give a lecture related to Buddhism, but is grateful for the honour of the invitation.

BR suggests Julian Huxley, Ayer or J.Z. Young for a debate.

BR encourages Crowther in his campaign against the "appalling risks to mankind".

BR praises the "FBI" issue of The Nation but wishes Sobell had been mentioned.

#43 tax to Madams: "Was this included in the sum for which I sent you a cheque?"

BR asks Broad if he can send Ellen Haring to him for help in accessing Cambridge University Library.

BR encourages Shewin to keep on writing anti-nuclear letters to newspapers, despite the Cumberland News not printing one.

BR admires the work of the sender's committee in Germany. (The incoming letter cannot be found.)

BR agrees to be president of the Welsh National Council for Nuclear Disarmament and is sorry the Archbishop of Wales refused.

BR is in entire sympathy with the objects of Muller's organization.

"Cheque".

BR agrees to become honorary president of the Bristol University Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

"Pressure of work makes him unable to answer questions".

"No".

"I used to enjoy Reichenbach's uncompromising rationality and I am glad that you are carrying on in the same tradition."

BR wants the Conciliation Commission to be independent of the U.N.

BR accepts the designation Honorary President of Glasgow Student International Club.

"Electricity Board cheque" "(Pay in book)".

BR likes the selection of quotations from himself and suggests one about philosophy and mental maturity from "Philosophy's Ulterior Motives".

BR thanks the Mayor of Frankfurt for the municipality's hosting of the Congress of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

BR tells Collins that he has sent a letter of thanks to the Mayor of Frankfurt for hosting the CND Congress.

BR finds The Global Atlas "exceedingly good" and asks for a copy to be send to his grandson in Washington (David Tait).

BR will read the magazine that Senior sent when he gets the necessary leisure.

BR cannot be present at Anne's service of confirmation on Feb. 24 and asks about dress for her.

BR maintains that the US and USSR must have made elaborate preparations against the other side winning by striking the first blow in a nuclear war. He encloses a letter to send to the Burmese newspaper that published a view on the topic.

BR replies to this newspaper's editorial on nuclear war. There would be retaliation to a first strike, and fall-out ought not to be ignored.

BR read Glass's pamphlet, Who Was for Munich? with "interest and approval". Glass maintains that the pacifists did not preach appeasement.

BR will not need a payment of royalties before April 5 this year.

BR agrees with "Call to the Women of the World".

"No and thanks for the photo".

BR declines to lecture to the Jowett Society as his time and energy are completely taken up by the campaign against nuclear warfare.

"Nothing > Arenente".

"No".

BR does not propose that Britain immediately give up the H-bomb, but if no agreement can be reached to limit it to the US and USSR, then Britain should renounce it.

BR does not wish to emphasize the differences between Usborne's plan and his own.

BR confirms arrangements for 2 luncheons with Simon.