Enclosed statement is a copy of a press release by BR and J.D. Bernal re events in South East Asia.

Enclosed ts. carbon copy, signed by BR, is a copy of a press release re BR's pacifism and World War II.

See document RA1 710.052137 (record 78069) for the identification of Levy.

Enclosed ms. is titled "On Politicians".

Letter written on letterhead of the Inman Hotel.

Photocopy of a page from Russell Society News, no. 54, May 1987.

P. 14, printing a letter by BR to "Dear Friend (whose name I cannot decipher)". She had photographed BR for a magazine (Holiday Magazine) and sent him pipe cleaners, which were difficult to get in England. The published photo has not been found.

Re speaking at the Unity Forum.

Bax was the Brains Trust producer. He asks BR to be on a Brains Trust "session", recording Oct. 30 at Broadcasting House.

Lunch is at 1, then recording to 3:30. The fee is £15.15.0. It is to be advertised in Radio Times, overseas cables, etc.

Requisition of 9 October 1944: BR gets a first class rail voucher, too. Brains Trust Fourth Series, no. 6. to be broadcast 31 October 1944, 8:15-9:00 pm.

Question Master first puts two [illegible] questions for testing voices. Panel won't know questions beforehand. Needn't answer all.

See also record 57426.

Re title: "I am not a professor, so you had better describe me as "Bertrand Russell F.R.S." I do not care to use my title for publicity purposes, as no one knows who it is if I do."

BR agrees to Brains Trust on Oct. 30.

Bax tells BR that lunch will be in studio 3.E.

Re "Where Do We Go Now?" (or "The Future of Civilization").

Blewitt, who met BR at Deudraeth Castle in 1933, is invited to Trinity to discuss a talk.

Re a possible mathematics series that BR later declines to do.

The Question Master first puts one or two negligible questions for testing voices. You don't know questions beforehand. Needn't answer all.

BR expects Blewitt on Nov. 22.

Re a series of talks on mathematics for schools: BR would like to do it but would also like to discuss it with Rowan Davies to see if he (BR) is competent.

There is a Brains Trust recording on 18 December 1944 (Monday as before). (This is 4, no. 13 (so they are weekly).)

Recipient is identified by record 57429.

BR invites Davies to Trinity on Nov. 23 to discuss the proposed series on mathematics for schools.

BR agrees to Brains Trust on Dec. 18.

BR agrees to see Davies on Nov. 24.

Re Brains Trust for 8 January 1945.

BR agrees to be on the Brains Trust for 8 January 1945.

BR has agreed to do mathematics for schools but cannot work on the broadcasts until Feb. or March.

Re "Where Do We Go Now?".

BR prefers to record at an earlier hour (than the broadcast at 7:45-8:00 pm). He lives 2 miles from station (a 1 hr. 50 min. train trip) and there are no taxis that late.

Next requisition: recording 3 January 1945 at 3:30-4:00 pm. Broadcast 7:45-8:00 pm, 8 January 1945. Disc no. Dl0 66573.

BR asks for a copy of Blewitt's letter of Nov. 29.

Re "Where Do We Go Now?".

Blewitt's critique.

BR sends his draft script, which may be "a little too long".

"I shall say 'it is'" (rather than "it's").

BR indicates what revisions he has accepted or made to his script as a result of Blewitt's suggestions.

Blewitt suggests changes to BR's script.

A News Chronicle, 13 January 1945, newsclip praises BR's broadcast (filed later).

Re Brains Trust for 12 February 1945.

BR agrees to Brains Trust on Feb. 12.

BR drops the idea of giving a series of 6 talks on mathematics for schools. Attached is a typed copy of the letter. The work would be remote from his other work, and he tires more easily, possibly "owing to war conditions".

Re Brains Trust for 12 March 1945.

Attached is a photocopy of another carbon copy of the letter.

This undated letter is date-stamped 22 Jan. 1945.

BR has talked to Hardy about the series of talks on mathematics.

Bax confirms Brains Trust of 12 February 1945.

Re a talk on "What Is Freedom?", since the press commended the first talk (BBC discussed this internally).

BR is interested in doing a broadcast on freedom.

Brains Trust for 29 March 1945 (Thursday, as Monday is Easter) and 23 April 1945?

BR approves both Brains Trust dates, March 29 and April 23, as well as March 12.

Reminder of Brains Trust on 29 March 1945.

Re Brains Trust for 14 May 1945 and 4 June 1945.

Re debate with Haldane 30 April or 1 May? Two hours.

Bryson wants points for the debate with Haldane by 21 April. BR responded with an outline, which is in chronological order in the BBC file.

Re Brains Trust on 23 April 1945.

BR asks for replacement contracts for Brains Trusts for which he has not been paid.

Not a letter but the outline of a BBC script in BR's hand, titled "Should Scientists Be Public Servants?". These "points" were requested by 21 April 1945, at record 57470. Not being a letter, the transcription of the outline does not belong in the Transcription field:

BR, “SHOULD SCIENTISTS BE PUBLIC SERVANTS?”, [OUTLINE, 20 APR. 1945]
BRACERS 57476. MS(X). BBC Written Archives
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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Should scientists be public servants?

I. Of course they should serve the public, but their judgment should decide what will serve the public.

II. Public servants take orders from the State, i.e. from eminent elderly gentlemen, who either know no science, or at most that of the last generation. “Folly, doctor-like, controlling skill” does not lead to the best research.

III. States are competitive and therefore more interested in differential advantages to themselves than in what benefits all mankind.

IV. All fundamentally original work is liable to shock established orthodoxies, and therefore to be frowned on by Authority.

V. The best men need the stimulus of self-direction if they are to do their best work.

VI. Knowledge is desirable on its own account, and not only because it may have technical uses. This is in danger of being forgotten, and the State is less likely to remember it than an able man of science is.

Brains Trust of 14 May is cancelled; new session is for 25 June (last before the summer recess).

Re a putative script on Russell by E.M. Forster.

Thanks for note re form of address for BR. See record 57483, and B&R C45.09.

Reminder of Brains Trust, 4 June 1945.

Re his name and being unable to stand for the House of Commons or to renounce his peerage.

On the 17th Patricia had sent a note on the use of BR's title.

Addresses BR as "Lord Russell".

BR suggests H.N. Brailsford or Krishna Menon instead of Joad in place of Forster, for a portrait of himself.

Re Brains Trust for 24 September and 29 October 1945.

BR agrees to Brains Trusts on Sept. 24 and Oct. 29.

The letter, undated, is in reply to Bax's of Aug. 3.

Re Brains Trust for 26 November 1945.

BR agrees to Brains Trust on Nov. 26.

Brains Trust for 14 January 1946.

BR agrees to Brains Trust on 14 Jan. 1946.

Brains Trust for 11 February 1946.

BR agrees to Brains Trust on Feb. 11. He likes arrangements "some way ahead, as then I can make other engagements, and sometimes can get a bed in London."

Re Brains Trust for 11 March 1946.

BR agrees to Brains Trust on March 11 as well as sessions on Jan. 14 and Feb. 11.

BR requests the railway voucher that was missing from his contract for Feb. 11.

Hall requests a copy of the contract for the 26 Nov. Brains Trust.

Langham has taken Bax's place (Bax has returned to television).

Brains Trust for 15 April 1946.

Hall declines the Eastern service on BR's behalf because BR has been ill. She is responding to Paxton's letter of 7 February.