Originally filed with G's; now filed with C's.

See record 23837.

Marked "Keep" in top corner. In pencil by BR's secretary: "Ans. by Air Mail 28.4.51".

On an erroneous analogy re Cuba and the USA.

Ms. is an outline for a newspaper to be circulated to young people.

Good, long letter on demonstrating with Committee of 100, on his stands in WWI and against the U.S.S.R., ending with the advice to wait until she's older before joining the demonstrations.

Letter has considerable pencilled additions ... secretary's hand.

Supports protest of eminent German physicists.

"... The practical problems on which I am engaged seem to me of sufficient importance to deserve all my working time."

On verso of final sheet of Gelman's letter.

In this group of letters to and from the Post Office there are two telephone bills, one from 13.4.57 to 30.6.57 and the other undated.

Typed on verso of Hedges' letter.

Leaflet concerns subscriber trunk dialling.

Met BR when he taught at UCLA before the war.

Writer now 56 and writing from Dept. of Psychology at UCLA.

On selectively justifying some wars.

WW1: "I made no personal attack upon any official, but merely repeated certain findings of an American senatorial investigation."

This is one of BR's better explanations of the "arithmetical measure of wickedness" that he used in Win We Must's extempore addition that was so controversial.

"Hitler only wanted to murder all Jews, who are no more than a fraction of the human race. He was, therefore, less wicked than those who set out to murder everybody. My indictment was of all rulers at that time in both the Eastern and Western blocs. I see no reason to retract what I said."

Draft reply on verso.

Draft reply on verso of Getz's letter.

Recommends Has Man a Future? and Burning Conscience.

"Thank you for sending me Youth in Chains which I have read with the greatest interest and sympathy. I admire your objectivity which convinces the reader of the accuracy of your narrative. It is remarkable that you have succeeded in retaining so much vitality."

(The book by Geve was published in Jerusalem in 1958 by Rubin Mass. It concerns the author's experiences in Nazi concentration camps.)

Printed poem, "Nineteen Hundred Sixtyone Years", on Ghose's letterhead, with typed message at bottom.

BR finally responds because Ghosh said he was in "my hundreds".

Signature looks like "dibbons" but BR replied to "gibbons".

"The questions that you ask me are very difficult and cannot be answered on general principles. I myself concealed my loss of faith from my elders until I was 21, after which it became impossible. I cannot give advice except in a case where I know all the people concerned. In any case, it seems to me that each individual must work out for himself his behaviour in such circumstances as you outline."

"I can only say that it is my experience that complete, simple, dogmatic answers to problems do not exist."

Re disarmament.

"As for the sources of the gospels, I should advise you to consult the Encyclopaedia Biblica edited by the Rev. Canon V.K. Cheyney." "You will find him more useful and more authoritative than anything that I could say."

On verso of Gibson's letter.