BRACERS Record Detail for 53934
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BR would like to know exactly what Read's anarchists said that was criminal, though he is likely to give his name to their defence.
BR TO HERBERT READ, 15 APR. 1945
BRACERS 53934. ALS(X). U. of Victoria Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell
Trinity College
Cambridge
15.4.45
Dear Mr Read
I am sorry that your letter got mislaid, and has only now turned up. On the face of it, I should be quite willing to give my name to the defence of the anarchists1 you write about, but I should like first to know exactly what they said that is considered criminal. Have you any account of what is involved?
Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell
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give my name to the defence of the anarchists Russell’s name appears among those of the sponsors of the Freedom Defence Committee in a pamphlet published in June 1945: Freedom: Is It a Crime; the Strange Case of the Three Anarchists Jailed at the Old Bailey, April 1945; Two Speeches by Herbert Read (London: Freedom Press Defence Committee), p. 14. Read was Chairman. Other sponsors included Aneurin Bevan, Vera Brittain, Victor Gollancz, H.J. Laski, George Orwell and George Woodcock.
