BR TO GILBERT MURRAY, 4 JULY 1947
BRACERS 52413. TLS. Murray papers, Bodleian
Edited by W. Bruneau. Proofread by K. Blackwell

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27 Dorset House
Gloucester Place
N.W.1.
4th July, 1947.

Dear Gilbert,

Thank you for your letter. I think I can do without the MSS from Professor Ladislaus Köszegi. I am very sorry for the various learned men of his type that one comes across, but one cannot read their works if one is to have time to do anything else at all.

On the whole I am glad that Russia turned down the Marshall scheme1 so emphatically and quickly; I was afraid there would be sabotage and delay. The division of Germany, however regrettable, seems to be now quite unavoidable. Molotov’s fierceness was really surprising.

Yours ever,
<signed> B.R.

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  Russia turned down the Marshall scheme See “Paris Meeting Breaks Down; Western Plans Attacked by Mr. Molotov”, The Times, 3 July 1947, p. 4.