BR TO BBC / IAN JACOB, 29 NOV. 1946
BRACERS 57531. TLS(X). BBC Written Archives
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Trinity College,
Cambridge.
29th November, 1946.

Major-General Sir Ian Jacob,
The British Broadcasting Corporation,
Bush House,
London, W.C.2.

Dear Sir Ian Jacob,

Thank you for your letter. I am glad that you wish to have a broadcast on the philosophy of logical analysis in connection with politics,1 and I think I can give you what you want. I have, as a matter of fact, observed since before the recent war, that men of diverse and usually hostile nations, if they adopted this philosophy, could discuss the most controversiala questions calmly and rationally. I think I can undertake to let you have the script by December 9th.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Russell.

• 1

  a broadcast on the philosophy of logical analysis in connection with politics It was broadcast on the BBC European Service, 27 Feb. 1947. Russell’s typed carbons were titled “Logical Analysis”, while The Listener published the talk as “A Plea for Clear Thinking” on 3 April 1947 (B&R C47.06; 49 in Collected Papers 11 and 15 in Collected Papers 24).

Textual Notes

• a

  controversial corrected by hand from controvertial.