Cannot provide information re "H.M. Tomlinson".

Mimeo and newsclip also enclosed.

"Thank you for your letter of October 17 and for the kind things that you say in it. I think that Stuart Chase on The Tyranny of Words is a good book but I do not think well of Korzybsky. I am sorry to write so briefly, but I am overwhelmed with necessary work."

[Also spelt Korzybski.]

Re: Wittgenstein

"Thank you for sending me your committee's report on 'United Nations Reform'. I have read it with much interest and I find your proposals judicial. More particularly, I agree with your arguments against making Berlin the seat of U.N. I found only two criticisms. The first, which is monor, [sic] is that I wish you had laid more stress on the inclusion of China. The second is that you say it is a virtual certainty that world population will be more than doubled in the next forty years (p. 14). It seems to me at least as likely that the population will be enormously reduced by nuclear war."

On verso of Barasi's letter.

"'Purpose' is entirely an inner quality which in no way depends upon metaphysical views about causality. Passionate concern for some degree of understanding of the world outside oneself and compassionate interest in the circumstances of other human beings provide sufficient activity for many lifetimes. Whether this activity is seen to be trivial or considered important is a temperamental accident. I think something may be said for both attitudes, although I act upon the latter one."

BR's letter is actually addressed to Pete Barnard.

Barnard has written a few lines at the foot of the first page of a story which he sent.

Barnes recalls meeting BR at "Clarence Darrow's seventieth birthday party given by Helen Slade."

"I have heard all the statements pretending that from the newest nuclear bomb there is no fall-out. All these statements are deliberate lies. I had a broadcast discussion on this point with Dr. Libby, one of the chief governmental nuclear authorities in the U.S., who boasted that he had discovered how to make 'clean' bombs and that his research towards this end had been dictated by humanitarian motives. I said, 'then I suppose you have told the Russians about it?' He replied with horror, 'no, that would be illegal!' Was I to conclude that it was only Russian lives that he wished to spare, not American?"

Re Erwin Schrödinger's Mind and Matter.

TS(CAR) also enclosed; same as ts. sent on 2 Aug. 1961.