Manuscript copied from Sir Robert Watson-Watt's Man's Means To His End.

"I have been living in North Wales continually for many weeks, as I am anxious to complete two books concerning the threat of nuclear war."

Re Ivy Gifford.
 

Ts. concerns a proposal for disarmament.

Reply on verso of Gilbert's letter.

Edith Russell has marked this letter "Lunatic file".

Marked at top "Copy to Lord Russell".

Reply on verso of Gittelsohn's letter.

On Glicksman's paradox of "My country right or wrong" and Nuremberg judgments.

BR: "There would be another way of escape, perhaps: one might say that the people condemned in the Nuremberg trials were guiltless, but that it was nevertheless right to punish them just as it is right, in conventional morality, to shoot an enemy soldier in battle although we may hold that he is only doing his duty. But I don't think that those who instituted the Nuremberg trials would like this way out."

Ms. is called "The Nuremberg Paradox".

Certificate is for 2 shares of North Wales Quarries Ltd.—a company that wound up in 1913. For the certificate, see record 125546.

Certificate is dated 4 Nov. 1903.

Ts. lists three points for discussion.

Reply on verso of Godden's letter.

Ts. presents Godden's ideas on mind and matter.

Re World "International" Government.

"Your theory of thrust and counter-thrust is imaginatively attractive. It reminds me of some pre-Socratics, notably Heraclitus, but I am not able to accept it as a sober theory of the universe; nor do I think that road to world peace can lie through any metaphysic. I do not think that, even if the conversion of mankind were possible given time, there is enough time for such an operation.... Nonetheless, I think that your book could do nothing but good and might induce some to adopt an anti-nuclear point of view who would be deaf to other ways of presenting the argument. I hope you will not think me discourteous if I say that I would rather you did not send me the ms as I am so overwhelmed with work that I do not know how I should find time to read it."

Ts. is titled "Conversation Between Lord Bertrand Russell and Professor Albert Einstein".

Reply on verso of Godfrey's letter.

"Thank you for sending me your paper on Einstein and me. It is almost wholly correct as to facts. There are only a few small points: the declaration which Einstein and I signed shortly before his death was signed by nine other eminent scientists. Some of the opinions as to how to establish world government belong to the time when America alone had nuclear weapons and are no longer tenable. You speak, in one place, of the "secret". There never was any secret, except for a few small technical details, and the belief that there was served mainly to encourage spy-mania and McCarthyism. What I wrote in 1915 about wars that could be justified is rendered completely obsolete by the invention of nuclear weapons. The human species can no longer be preserved unless all war can be avoided."

Tear-sheet re Copernicus from Deutsche Mathematik, published in 1937.

Re world government.

Ts. is titled "World Academy for Peace".

On verso of Goldstein's letter.

Also from Graham and Beryl Hughes.

Newsclips have a further letter to BR written over them.

"Of course I shall continue with my work against the folly of the nuclear arms race whether the Labour Party wants me to remain a member or not. But I have no confidence in the Party's leadership or policy and, like you, put the interests of the nuclear disarmament movement before those of the Party."

Ts. is titled "Survival—Through a Mandate of the People".

At top of letter in Schoenman's hand: "Important: show Bertie".

FEDIND is Federation of Indian Students' Societies in Great Britain, Ireland and Europe.

On verso of Gooptu's letter.

"I am in the act of selling my house and moving to North Wales so that every moment of my time is occupied. I cannot, therefore, do more in the way of a message than to express my hope that your annual festival will be a great success and that those who take part will be able, in later years, to further those common causes in which we can all share."