BRACERS Notes

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83401

The December issue of British Soviet Friendship published a "Forum" re improving British-Soviet relations and they wish to continue this forum in the next (January) issue. Goss asks BR if he would like to contribute to this Forum.

83402

"I did not, before, suggest the necessary steps for Anglo-Soviet friendship because there seemed to me no chance that such steps would be taken. However, in view of your letter, I enclose herewith what I consider the necessary steps."

"If good relations are to be restored between Britain and the Soviet Government both sides will have to take rather drastic steps. I suggest the following: 1) Russia should withdraw all armed forces from the satellite countries of Eastern Europe, including Eastern Germany; 2) Germany should be unified and neutralized, and should not continue as a member of NATO; 3) both Russia and the Western Powers should abstain from all attempts to exercise influence in the Middle East; 4) nuclear test explosions should be renounced on both sides by agreement; 5) a serious attempt should be made to bring about a measure of disarmament on both sides, not only in nuclear weapons, but in all kinds of armaments...."

83403

"I am writing to ask if you will contribute to our symposium, giving your views on the following question: 'What form do you think future negotiations with the Soviet Government should take; what do you think should be discussed and what proposals should be made by Britain's representatives?'"

83404

"We have already received a number of contributions for our symposium on new East-West negotiations.... We are, therefore, convening a meeting of those who have shown interest in this symposium. The purpose of the meeting will be to have an informal exchange of views on what can be done to extend public discussion on East-West negotiations." The meeting will be held at the House of Commons on Wednesday, February 19 at 5 p.m.

83405

"I am sorry you were unable to attend the meeting of contributors to our discussion on East-West negotiations ... the main proposals agreed to were: that approaches should be made to the television networks urging a controversial public discussion on the subject of East-West negotiations;  that we should seek to secure publication in the Soviet press (i.e., in Russian) of all or some of the discussion in our magazine."

83406

BR contributes to the symposium for publication in British Soviet Friendship. "Negotiations between East and West with a view to finding ways of peaceful co-existence are urgently desirable. Certain principles should govern such negotiations: 1) any agreement arrived at should as a whole be not advantageous to either party; 2) it should be such as to diminish causes of friction; 3) it should be such as to diminish the danger of a more or less inadvertent outbreak of nuclear warfare."

83407

"On Sunday the Executive Committee of the British Soviet Friendship Society adopted the enclosed Statement. We would be very glad to receive your comments on it for our August issue."

83408

"I enclose two issues of our magazine, from January and May this year. You will see from them that a controversy has started, primarily between Lord Silkin and Alec Horsley on the one hand, and Mark Maximov, a Soviet journalist and economist, on the other." Two issues of British Soviet Friendship are present in file.

83409

"Thank you for your invitation to write for your magazine. I am sorry but I am overwhelmed with such requests and must do those which advance the work in which I am now totally engaged: the prevention of nuclear war."

83410

"We would respectfully like to invite you to contribute a short foreword to the Souvenir Handbook, in the form of a message of address to those going to the Festival."

83411

"Since last Wednesday I have been in touch with the 3rd Programme of the BBC about the possibility of readings from your short stories. It may take a little while but I hope to write to you again shortly."

83412

Brome is collaborating with Douglas Cleverdon of the BBC Third Programme in recording a series of impressions of the late Joseph Conrad from about 20 people together to broadcast as an "artistic whole". They wish to record BR's impressions of Conrad to include in the broadcast.

83413

"It would be very nice simply to cut-in-part of your talk on Conrad with your permission, but there is a difficulty. These synthetic biographies are developed on spontaneous lines, and it might sound out of keeping with the rest of the programme."

83414

"In view of your many connections with Bryn Mawr College, I am writing to ask you if you would do a favor for the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin ... we are running a symposium on this topic: Is Conformity Enfeebling Our Intellectuals? Would you be so kind enough to write us a letter of your opinion...."

83415

"I am sorry that pressure of work makes it impossible for me to make a contribution to your Alumnae Bulletin, but, as you know, I consider conformity in matters of opinion a very grave evil and one of which the gravity is increasing throughout the world."

83416

"The January 1955 issue of the Bulletin will contain several articles reviewing the situation in the tenth year of the atomic bomb race (and third year of the H-bomb race). Perhaps, there is something that you would like to say at this juncture."

83417

"I think I mentioned to you in London that the Bulletin is planning a Tenth Anniversary issue in January 1956 in the general form of a symposium. We would like to assess the last decade or two in terms of the many complex changes in society which can be attributed to science.... It seems to be that a natural subject for you would be Science and Philosophy, and we hope very much that you would be willing to write on it."

83418

"The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is printing in its February issue an article by Dr. Rabinowitch on the various conferences he attended this summer, and particularly the conference held by your group—World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government. We would like also to publish your opening address to the conference."

83419

"Enclosed is a copy of an article by Walter Marseille which he has submitted for publication in the Bulletin.... The question of meetings between Western and Soviet scientists is becoming increasingly prominent in American public discussion, and I think your article on this subject in the Bulletin will be widely read and appreciated."

83420

"I suggested that this article should be published in the Bulletin with an appropriate answer; and that by far the most impressive answer could come from you." Re Walter Marseille's article, "Not War--Not Peace".

83421

"I am delighted that you are working on a reply to Marseille's article. We will plan to have both of them in the April issue...."

83422

"I have taken the freedom of changing a few words in your article. You will receive galleys showing these changes and if you disagree with them, the original text can be restored. The only significant suggestion is leaving out a sentence in which you speak about scientists having found out in Pugwash that their opposite numbers are human and not 'melodramatic figures of evil'. It seems to me that no such misunderstanding ever existed among scientists."

83423

"I do not object to your omitting the sentence about 'figures of evil'. I do not wish to acknowledge the absence of symmetry of which you speak as I am not at all sure that it exists. I do not care to add a paragraph justifying scientists for discussing political questions as it does not seem to me to be necessary."

83424

"The April issue of the Bulletin, containing your 'Answer to Mr. Marseille', has now come off the press, and under separate cover we are sending you an advance copy. Also, I have asked our circulation office to send you two additional copies."

83425

"The Bulletin gratefully acknowledges receipt of your 'Intended Address to Congress at Basel....'"

83426

"May I ask you for a few lines in which you tell us what you think of the Bulletin and its function in the world, as well as any suggestions for improvement you might have?"

83427

"We write today in regard to the inclusion of your articles from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in the forthcoming book, Minutes to Midnight. We are profoundly sorry for the long delay in replying to your earlier letter, but we wish to assure you that we are including your March 1962 article in the book, as you requested, as well as the other two earlier articles."

83428

"Thank you for your letter of 15 February concerning my articles and Minutes to Midnight. I had begun to think the project was abandoned."

83429

"Would you be so kind as to forward me immediately fifty further copies (or reprints) of my article 'The Case for British Nuclear Disarmament' published in Vol. XVIII, No. 3, March 1962?"

83430

"The essays contained in Mysticism and Logic are perhaps not very appropriate for inclusion in the Antología semántica I am planning because they were translated into Spanish. On the other hand, 'Vagueness', which was published by the Australian Journal of Philosophy, is little known even in English."

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The Antología semántica which contains the Spanish version of "Vagueness" has been published and the publishers will send BR a copy.

Bunge asks BR to contribute an article to the proposed volume entitled The Critical Approach: Essays in Honor of Karl Popper. "... I take the liberty of asking you to contribute a paper to the volume described in the enclosed prospectus. The value of the book would thereby be enormously enhanced, and Professor Popper, who is an old admirer of yours, would be very pleased."

83433

"I am very sorry that work already undertaken makes it impossible for me to contribute a paper. I much regret this as I have a great respect for Popper."

83434

"I am most grateful for the quick, kind and cooperative response to my request to reprint something of yours in This is My Philosophy. I have been to Allen & Unwins and read the selection and it is, of course, exactly what I had hoped for."

83435

A transcription of record 5251.

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Enclosed letter is from Sidney Hook (see record 130667).

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Egner encloses the outline and introduction to a volume of essays he and Lester Denonn are editing, and would like BR's opinion of them.

83466

BR encloses a brief preface.

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BR encloses his current view on non-demonstrative inference and induction.

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Principia *14 contains the gist of BR's disagreement with existentialism, though he doesn't want to publicize this disagreement with Sartre and its other proponents. The ribbon copy of the letter is dated 6 days later (record 53783).

83485

Principia *14 contains the gist of BR's disagreement with existentialism, though he doesn't want to publicize this disagreement with Sartre and its other proponents. See the ALS for its earlier date by 6 days (record 83484).

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Re a proposed paperback edition of Volume I of Principia Mathematica.

"As I am sure you realise, a great many undergraduates (both in this country and in America) reading logic or a general course in philosophy are often led to refer to the introductory parts of Principia Mathematica. The more detailed and technical discussions which follow are probably for the most part beyond their scope; and we are sure that at the moment most of them simply borrow Volume I from a library and use it from time to time. If the parts most needed by undergraduates were available fairly cheaply in a paperback, it seems pretty certain that a great many of them would buy such an edition for themselves."

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BR explains his worries with the proposed paperback edition of Volume I of Principia Mathematica.

"... I am still rather worried by the fact that such a summary would, in effect, put an end to the study of whatever it omitted. I feel this in particular as regards Part IV.... Such a paper back as you have in mind would, I cannot help thinking, greatly diminish the sales of Principia Mathematica...."

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Becher tries to convince BR in publishing the paperback edition of Volume I of Principia Mathematica.

"I really do believe that the paperback would have no serious effects on the sales of the complete three volumes.... When we were planning to issue a paperback of Moore's Principia Ethica, Mrs. Moore was most anxious lest this should have an adverse effect on her income from the book (and of course here, the text of the paperback was identical with the text of the cloth edition ...). As it has turned out, her annual royalty statements are now more than double the previous average."

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"Lord Russell asks me to thank you for your letter of 1 June and to say that, in view of what you say in it, he is quite willing to accede to your suggestion of a paperback edition of part of Principia Mathematica."

83499

"I was very glad to have your Secretary's note confirming that our proposal to issue a paperback edition of part of Principia Mathematica on the terms set out in my letter of 20 April is acceptable to you. We will now go ahead with the production of this edition."

83500

"The Syndics of the Press have accepted a book entitled Thinking with Concepts by John Wilson and I should be glad to have your permission to use the under-mentioned material for the British Empire and American markets: 67 lines of typescript from a debate between yourself and Father S.C. Copleston, S.J. broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation."