BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
75703

A message of solidarity is requested from BR for the Twelfth Annual Congress held by the Iranian Students' Association in the United States.

75704

On topics in The Analysis of Mind.

75705

On BR's "The Chinese Amritsar", in Min Pao.

75706

On BR's behalf, Schoenman thanks Yusufzai for his letter and sends good wishes.

75707

Schoenman encloses a message (record 75708) to Barzegar from BR. Attached is a TL(CAR) copy, document .186412.

75708

A message from BR concerning the present régime in Iran. Attached is a TL(CAR) copy, document .186412.

75709

The Confederation of Iranian Students is grateful that BR will support the Iranian Students Scholarship Fund.

75710

The Confederation of Iranian Students sends news that the trial of their friends is in violation of the Iranian constitution since it is held behind closed doors and there is no jury present. They demand the UN Human Rights Commission step in and accept their conditions or the students will go on a hunger strike.

75711

Chakeri sends a list of Tehran University students who have been expelled as well as information concerning the Iranian Students Scholarship Fund.

75712

The Confederation of Iranian Students make urgent demands to the UN about the Iranian government and its actions.

Attached is a copy, document .186427.

75713

This is a letter of introduction for BR to meet Chang's colleague K.T.J. Liang, Professor of Commercial Law at the Government University of Peking.

75714

Riesel wants a copy of BR's letter about Russian anti-Semitism because he feels that it should have a wide distribution and discussion. Riesel is a journalist for 300 newspapers.

75715

In German.

75716

Chang sends BR a copy of Liberator and the first part of his bibliography of BR, just published in The New Young People. He asks that BR keep him up to date on his new publications.

75717

Chang has written the fourth section of the bibliography and encloses it for criticism (not present). He questions BR about unsigned reviews in The Nation and The Athenaeum.

75718

In this immensely long letter, Chao says he corresponded with BR in 1918 from Chicago, and that BR wrote him in July 1920.

75719

This "Green Letter" is essentially Chao's letter of July 13-15, 1920, to BR (document .048182, record 75718) with additions, some of them with information on BR. Note 19 tells how BR began a lecture with an allusion to Descartes.

75720

Chao asks BR for financial help in terms of a loan to avoid an arranged marriage.

75721

On how much money Chao owes BR, now $13.18.

75722

Chao encloses an article he wrote (see document .048197). BR has annotated the letter.

75723

This transcription of document .048187 has been annotated by BR. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

75724

Chao plans to go to Europe to study and asks BR's advice on where he should go. This letter has been annotated by BR with the statement that BR's daughter Kate was born the day the letter was written.

75725

Chao mentions hearing about the Boxer Indemnity from Tsai.

75726

Chao reports letters missing from an empty envelope.

75727

Chao has news from China on the Boxer Indemnity.

75728

Chao is in London for a month and hopes that BR will return there in time for them to see each other.

75729

This is a transcription of document .048192. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

75730

Chao writes about philosophy while fighting goes on around him.

Chao mentions that Dora Russell would find it interesting to know that his wife has started a birth control clinic in Peking. Chao has coded the date. It may be 1925.

75731

Chao is in London and wishes to see BR. He quotes some logic from his "young colleague", Leon Henkin, which makes no use of negation.

75732

Titled: "Government Institutions". Not a letter but a list with numbers of students.

75733

Chao's letter to the editor criticizes an editorial on BR on August 4. In document .048186, record 75722, Chao says the letter was published intact.

75734

This is a transcription of document .048198. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. BR corrected both documents.

75735

This is a transcription of document .048200. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

75736

Chen thanks BR for giving his group a series of three lectures.

75737

Chen writes of David Yu's work on implication in logic.

75738

BR is going to give a series of lectures on international problems in the Far East on Nov. 28, Dec. 5 and 12, and Chu plans to go to them.

75739

Chu is unable to go to BR's first lecture on internal conditions in China on Nov. 28, but has asked General Hwang and Justice Lee to substitute.

75740

Chu received the copies of BR's lectures on China and is glad to hear that he plans to have them published in book form. Chu sends BR and Mrs. Russell some Chinese tea and lichees.

75741

Chu encloses a confidential document (not present) on an unspecified topic raised in BR's letter of Feb. 9. [It is possible that the topic was the Boxer Indemnity.]

75742

Chu invites BR to lunch on August 22 along with Peng-chun Chang and Chia-lin Chen who are eager to meet him.

75743

Chu invites the Russells to dinner on Dec. 17. S.P. and Mrs. Waterlow will be there. They will be able to talk about an unspecified question that Dora Russell referred to in her last letter. [Perhaps this is a reference to the Boxer Indemnity.]

75744

This is a summary of the campaign to obtain UK visas for Vietnamese invitees of the BRPF.

75745

BR announces a public meeting on the fifth anniversary of the formation of the National Liberation Front in Vietnam.

[It is unusual for BR to sign a mimeographed document.]

75746

BR has written an outline of the history of South Vietnam since the French occupation.

75747

Arnold and Such of the Stanford Peace Caucus send BR a blank tape on which to record a message. The letterhead states: Associated Students of Stanford University Political Union Board.

75748

Medlock addresses a short note to BR and Edith on a press release from North Vietnam datelined Nov. 27. The year is conjectural.

The press release refers to a tape-recorded speech by BR heard by delegates to an International Conference for Solidarity with the People of Vietnam Against U.S. Imperialist Aggression.

75749

Attached is a second copy of the document.

75750

On whether Americans fully understand the nature of their government's war in Vietnam.

75751

Attached is a note in Edith Russell's hand: "2 extra enclosures for Vietnam letters". Attached also is a list of newspapers which have published last Vietnam letter", TD(CAR), 1 sheet.

75752

The document has been marked up for editing or quoting in what seems to be Edith Russell's hand. The latest date mentioned is near the end of 1963. Also in file: another TD(CAR), document 182935a.

75753

BR sent a parcel containing clothing to Shabsovitch and wonders why he has not yet received it. The secretary asks Shabsovitch to make enquiries at the post office. He encloses a copy of the official receipt (not present) and a list of the clothing.

75754

Shabsovitch informs BR that he received the package on September 14. He thanks BR and wishes him good health.

75755

BR's message to students at British universities discusses anti-Semitism in the USSR, with little improvement after Stalin.

BR has queried a phrase and signed the document. This may be the message that BR later wrote was meant only for a student conference and not for general circulation.

There is a dated typescript with virtually the same text at RA2 340.183569, although the present one is found among documents of 1963; it is not known which year is the year of composition, which was possibly by Litvinoff on BR's behalf.

75756

This is a draft appeal. Also in file: 3 TD(CAR) copies, documents .186415-.186417.

75757

BR was going to send them his lecture on "Industry in Undeveloped Countries", but Yang says that the Russell Monthly will be printing his lectures and he doesn't want to publish the same lecture twice.

75758

Yang would like to publish one of BR's letters in his magazine, the Pacific Ocean, "in order to make the people understand what the difference is between Communism and Bolshevism." Yang encloses a copy of BR's letter and the original (not present). This lead to a lost letter is not discussed in Papers 15.

75759

BR has been invited to a dinner the same evening that he is urged to accept.

75760

This is an invoice for the Russells' passages on the Empress of Asia.

75761

Itinerary for BR's train trip from Vancouver to Montreal, Aug. 9-16, with 24 hrs. in Banff. Re Canada.

75762

This is a transcription of document .048222. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. Both are corrected by BR.

75763

BR requests the UN appoint a team of lawyers to investigate the trial of those accused of the conspiracy to assassinate the Shah.

75764

Zaki informs Chakeri that donations should be directed to the Iranian Students Scholarship Fund instead of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. He also encloses the appeal signed by BR.

75765

Humphrey encloses for BR a copy of procedures followed by the UN dealing with communications concerning human rights, document .186434. Attached are TL(X) copies of the letter, document .186435; and of the procedures, document .186436.

75766

The Iranian Students' Organization in Moscow requests BR's help concerning Iranian engineers condemned to death.

75767

Chakeri thanks BR for the appeal and clears up the banking information concerning donations to the Iranian Students Scholarship Fund.

Enclosed is a letter to BR, document .186439, record 75768.

75768

Chakeri requests that BR send a message for the Confederation of Iranian Students' Annual Congress.

75769

Schoenman authorizes the use of the name of BR and the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation on the letterhead of their fund.

75770

BR sends a message for the use at an annual congress.

75771

The Bucharest Committee implores BR to use his influence to prevent the execution of three Iranians, Hekmatdkou, Khavari, and Badjnourdi.

75772

Grundy encloses a copy of The Blue Rag and draws BR's attention to the article "Teheran Terror; the Plight of Persian Students".

75773

Massali transmits a message from his last congress. Attached is a TLS(X) copy, document .186449.

75774

The magazine mentioned was not enclosed and the BRPF looks forward to receiving a copy of The Blue Rag.

75775

The BRPF has received The Blue Rag magazine and reviewed the article on Persia. Wood encloses an article from BR called "Freedom in Iran".

75776

BR was pleased to receive the message from the Congress of the Confederation of Iranian Students.

Attached is a TL(CAR) copy, document .186452.

75777

Information about the death sentencing of one of the 55 accused. BR's assistance is requested for this "illegal trial".

75778

BR appeals to the Shah on behalf of Bodjnourdi who has been sentenced to death by Teheran Military Tribunal.

Attached is a copy, TL(CAR) document .186455.

75779

BR's help is requested for the Military Tribunal sentencing to death of Bodjnourdi, Khawari, Hekmatdjou, seven others to life, and 52 to long prison terms.

75780

BR makes an appeal on behalf of Khwari and Hekmatdjou who were sentenced to death with Bodjnourdi by the Military Court.

Attached are 2 TEL(CAR) copies, documents .186458 and .186459.

75781

The Organization of Iranian Students requests BR to do everything possible about the violation of human rights by the death sentence against 3 Iranians.

75782

In French. From the Polish Committee for the Defence of Condemned Prisoners.

75783

BR's assistance is requested to prevent the deportation of the secretary of the Iranian Students Federation to Iran. BR's telegram in response is in draft form in Schoenman's hand; "Sent 27/6/66".

CISNU is an acronym for the Confederation of Iranian Students.

75784

BR wishes a statement to be released and includes it in his letter. The statement concerns Ali Khavari and Parviz Hekmatjou.

Attached is a copy, document .186467.

75785

 BR is thanked for his efforts by the Iranian Committee for the Defence of Political Prisoners in Iran. Khavari and Hekmatjou's lives have been saved.

75786

BR welcomes the proposed campaign for the release of Mossadegh.

75787

This is a transcription of document .048256, corrected by BR. In file is also a TL(TC,CAR) copy.

75788

BR has promised to support the policy of the paper for the development of education in China. Koo feels that it would be a great honour if BR would send some of his articles to be published. Koo sends some reproduced ancient paintings and pictures to BR as souvenirs from Shanghai and a pamphlet which has original paintings of some Chinese lady painters to Miss Black (Dora Russell).

Enclosed is a copy of a letter from John and Mrs. Dewey accepting the souvenir, document .048225a.

75789

This is a transcription of document .048256a. In file is a TL(TC,CAR) copy.

75790

Hsia sends BR a photograph (not present) that was taken in Y.P.S. Hotel as a symbol of the friendship which has emerged.

75791

This is a transcription of document .048266. Also in file is a TL(TC,CAR) copy of the transcription.

75792

This letter outlines the reasons why BR is forbidden to enter prohibited areas. The reasons do not "necessarily" include espionage.

75793

Cockerill will give his permission for BR to give his lectures if he promises not to use them as propaganda against the war.

75794

Cockerill writes that BR has publicly stated that his present work is "quite unconnected with the war", but now he cannot promise that he will not speak out against the war in his proposed lectures. The letter is marked "Private and Personal".

75795

Cockerill claims the right to complain of BR's public use of their correspondence.

75796

Cockerill will recommend that BR be allowed to give his lectures, as there had been a misunderstanding.

75797

The Army Council will not modify the orders forbidding BR to enter prohibited areas because BR will not promise "to confine your lectures to the expression of a general philosophy, or to abstain from using them as a vehicle for propaganda that contravenes the Defence of the Realm regulations." The surname is doubtful.

75798

These are BR's notes on his meeting with Cockerill, at the War Office, concerning his being forbidden to enter prohibited areas.

75799

BR encloses a syllabus (not present) for lectures he plans to give.

75800

This is a transcription of document .048425. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

75801

BR cannot promise that his lectures will not contain the type of propaganda that Cockerill objects to.

75802

This is a transcription of document .048427. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. There is a note in the file regarding the date on the transcription of this letter.