BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
22602
22603

Dated on the original 1961/06/28. 1962 is taken from BR's reply, which looks like a 1962 reply.

22604
22605

Pamphlet is titled The Final Goal of Man and Lasting Peace by Chowdhury.

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BR's letter includes the following message: "Civil defence is a cruel hoax. The shelter programme is a scheme of delusion. These shelters are cremation boxes because the fire storms that will result from nuclear war will represent a meteorological event.

I welcome and extend my hand to your protest. Human life is in imminent danger. We live from moment to moment with the immediate possibility of the nuclear clearing of life from the planet. Rockets poise on a hair trigger. Radar is incapable of distinguishing natural phenomena from missiles. Nuclear tests—premeditated murder—cost the lives of millions over many generations. These global butchers must be stopped. The question is when, if not now, and who, if not I?"

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22623

Circilo di Cultura of Bologna.

22624

Ts. carbon of letter attached.

22625

Ts. titled "Religion and Science".

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22629

Can she type or take shorthand? (Probably written from Wales but no "Pp".)

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"I have received your rude letter. I do not address myself to the Pope because I am concerned about nuclear war. In this subject he has shown even less interest than the leaders of the Great Powers."

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Addressed to BR at the Ministry of Defence and forwarded to him on 23 March 1961.

Clipping from Sunday News, 1961/02/19, has BR's photo.

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Local paper published article recently "with the world sliding down the slope, Bertrand Russell says 'here's how to put on the brakes'".

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"You say all the things that I most like having said about myself."

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2nd piece was folded and mailed inside double card.
22649

2 letters with UN and draft resolutions.

22650

Envelope only. Registered.

22651

Mrs. Angus W. Clarke, Jr.

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22653
22654

Mrs. Geoffrey P. Clarkson. Ts. by Geoffrey P.E. Clarkson is titled "Trust Investment: a Study in Decision-Making".

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On verso of Clements' letter.

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On verso of Clements' letter.

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22671

Re lost Byron letters in Thomas Moore's papers, edited by Lord John Russell.

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Clippings:

The Globe Magazine, 1961/03/11, "Britain's Intellectual Gadfly: Bertrand Russell's Passion for Truth has Frequently Infected His Fellow Men".

The Pentecostal Testimony, March 1961, "The Christian in the Cold War".

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BR has addressed letter to "Miss (?) Clive".

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"Thank you for your letter of July 5 and for ordering the book of Pasternak's poems to be sent to me. I know John Cowper Powys who lives not far from where I live. His address is Wellington Square, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales.

So far as I know, Peter Russell is not a relation of mine."

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"Lord Russell asks me to thank you most warmly for sending Pasternak's poems to him. He is very glad to possess them and is most grateful to you. He will look out specially 'It Is Not Seemly'."

22686

Also enclosed 2 international mail vouchers.

Ts. is titled "Notizen zu dem Jahrbuch über Lebenshaltungskosten".

22687

Also enclosed photocopy of pp. 199-203, Donner aus China, White/Jacoby.

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Ts. is titled "Notizen zu dem Jahrbuch über Lebenshaltungskosten".

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Ts. is titled "What Ought I to Do?"

And pamphlet concerns Coates' The Crisis of the Human Person.

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BR has noted "Thursday 4" on letter.

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