BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
59003
59004
59005

An enclosed letter from G.E. Moore is not present. See record 78656 for the letter.

59006
59007
59008
59009
59010

Not a letter but a statement by BR to be read at a meeting of the Bala Group of Quakers Protesting Nuclear Weapons.

59011
59012
59013

Enclosed statement is titled "Message to Be Read at the Meeting on April 30, 1957, of the National Council for Abolition of Nuclear Weapon Tests".

Attached is a carbon copy of the statement.

59014
59015
59016
59017

Enclosed statement of accounts concerns monies spent and raised in connection with the appeal launched by BR on behalf of the Committee; mimeograph sheet is titled "Resolutions Adopted By the Executive Committee of the British Peace Committee at Its Meeting in London on 7th September 1957".

59018
59019

Enclosed receipt is for £5 donated by BR to the Council.

59020
59021

Separate letter, same date.

59022
59023
59024

On the verso of Duff's letter, record 59023.

59025

Re the private meeting on Jan. 16 which founded the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

BR agrees by telephone to attend.

59026
59027

On the recto of the same sheet as the letter at record 59028.

59028

BR asks Rotblat to send literature to "a Labour official at Conway... Labour opinion, at the moment, is fluid and can be moved in the right direction by sufficient effort." BR has received at letter from Cyrus Eaton which includes objections to British Columbia.

The ribbon of this letter is at record 132392. On the verso of the same sheet as the letter at record 59027.

59029

Enclosed mimeograph letter was sent by the Committee to the leaders of the Liberal, Conservative, and Labour Parties.

59030

On the verso of Gore's letter, record 59029. BR agrees to sign mimeo letter.

59031
59032
59033

On the verso of Duff's letter, record 59032.

59034

Letter concerns the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Enclosed mimeo is a policy statement of CND; enclosed leaflet announces a CND "mass meeting", the first mention of the new organization's name.

59035
59036
59037
59038

Not a letter but a statement by BR to be read at a meeting in Hull against nuclear weapons.

Two copies. The top copy has a revision to make the statement suitable for the Free University, Berlin.

59039
59040

On the verso of Duff's letter, record 59039.

"I thought our meeting [17 Feb. 1958] a very outstanding success...."

59041
59042

On the verso of Duff's letter, record 59041.

59043

Enclosed leaflet is titled Congress on Disarmament and International Cooperation; ts. communique is dated "le 20 Janvier 1958", and issued under the auspices of "Le Comité Executif du Conseil Mondial de la Paix".

59044

On the verso of Joliot-Curie's letter at record 59043.

59045
59046

On the verso of Arrowsmith's letter at record 59045.

59047
59048

On the verso of Arrowsmith's letter at record 59047.

59049
59050

On the verso of Arrowsmith's letter at record 59049.

59051
59052

On the verso of Duff's letter at record 59051.

59053
59054

Copy of the letter is on the verso of Duff's letter at record 590563; copy of the enclosure is on a separate sheet, and is titled "Answers to the Two Questions Posed by Mr. Corsini".

59055

Enclosed is a carbon copy of a letter Heim has sent to Jacquetta (Mrs. J.B.) Priestley.

59056
59057

BR agrees to be president.

59058
59059
59060
59061

On the verso of Parker-Rhodes' letter, at record 59060.

59062

Not a letter but a statement of support, "For Combined Universities Committee of CND" by BR.

Referred to at record 59065 (Duff, 1958/03/26).

59063
59064

Enclosed statement by BR concerns peaceful co-existence and world government. Two copies, one of which appears on the verso of the letter to Joliot-Curie, record 59064, and the second bearing marginal notations in Edith Russell's hand. (Reproduced in B&R 2: plate v.)

59065
59066
59067

Enclosed leaflet outlines the purpose of CND and suggests courses of action for supporters.

59068
59069
59070

On the verso of Collins's letter, record 59069.

59071
59072

Enclosed mimeo is titled "Personalites Qui Ont Donné Leur Accord pour le Comité de Soutien".

As indicated by Edith Russell in a note at the top, BR agreed to sign the document in question (not in file) on 18 April 1958.

59073
59074
59075
59076
59077

On the verso of Davies's letter, record 59076.

59078

Postcard, with the following written on the address side: "Copy of a card sent as greetings to the Governors of Holloway and Pentonville Prisons and to six of their prisoners, and now sent to Plas Penrhyn, Merioneth with sincere best wishes from Mansel Davies."

59079

Enclosed leaflet instructs demonstrators to "behave with dignity and self-discipline...."

59080
59081

Enclosed mimeos include an open letter of Canon Collins to Prime Minister Macmillan, and one titled "Appeal to the Prime Minister", the original enclosed in the letter to Macmillan.

59082

Letter sent to Macmillan by BR as President of CND; enclosed appeal is from 618 British scientists "asking for immediate action to stope (sic) the testing of nuclear weapons."

59083
59084
59085

On the verso of Duff's letter, record 59084.

59086
59087
59088

Enclosed flyer is titled "No Place to Hide", advertising an exhibition on the Bomb arranged by the Hampstead Group, CND.

59089

On the verso of Newton's letter, record 59088.

59090
59091
59092

On the verso of the final sheet of Muste's telegram at record 59091.

59093
59094
59095

Another letter of the same date; see record 59094.

59096

Enclosed address is to the Basel Conference, 5-6 July.

59097
59098

On the verso of Priestley's letter, at record 59097.

59099
59100
59101
59102