BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
59803
59804
59805
59806
59807
59808
59809
59810

Re Ralph Schoenman's imprisonment.

59811
59812

Attached are 3 typed carbon copy transcriptions of the letter.

59813

Enclosed excerpt is from a speech Scott gave at Aberystwyth; the excerpt contains remarks on BR and his 14-hour grilling by the CND executive.

59814
59815
59816
59817
59818
59819

Enclosed leaflets announce a lecture by Herman Kahn at the London School of Economics on "The Possibilities of Arms Control". The notes Goodriche enclosed are not present.

59820
59821

Letterhead: Association for the Restoration of Imber.

59822
59823
59824

Mimeo form letter addressed to "Dear Committee Member".

59825

On the verso of the Committee of 100 letter described in the previous document at record 59824.

59826
59827
59828
59829
59830

BR encloses a £50 cheque as a donation.

59831
59832
59833

Three ts. enclosures are titled "Resolution Sent to National Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Annual Conference to Be Held on 8th and 9th July, 1961"; "(extempore comment as per our tape recording)"; and "(extempore comment as per Lord Russell's notes)".

59834

Carbon copy transcription is titled "Extempore Comment (Transcribed from the Tape Recording) Added By Lord Russell to the Foregoing Speech".

59835
59836
59837

Enclosed mimeo lists the members of the National Council and the National Executive Committee for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

59838
59839

Letter is headed "Open Letter to the President of the United States of America", and is signed by BR as President of the Committee of 100.

59840
59841
On the verso of the letter described in the previous entry, record 59840.
59842
59843
59844
59845
59846
59847

Not a letter but a note about a telephone message from Davies re a local printer for B&R A117.

59848
59849
59850

Enclosed mimeos are titled "Sponsors of Proposed Conference in Whose Names this Invitation Is Sent", and "Proposed Invitees (in Addition to Sponsors)".

59851
59852

Attached is a newsclip from the Manchester Guardian, 6 June 1961, titled "Ban the Bomb, Says Scottish Church Leader", which BR apparently used as a point of reference for his letter to Innes, Moderator to the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland.

59853
59854

Enclosed newsclip, from the South London Press, 16 May, 1961, is titled "Explanation Given for 'Sit Down' Protest".

59855
59856
59857
59858
59859
59860
59861

Enclosed receipt is for a £100 donation from BR; enclosed Committee of 100 leaflet is titled Action Against Polaris.

59862

One enclosed ts. is a summary of BR's comments re civil disobedience before the first Annual Conference of the Midlands Regional Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; the second ts. is titled "Extempore Addition to Lord Russell's Speech—as per telephone conversation".

59863
59864
59865
59866
59867

On the verso of the letter described in the previous entry, record 59866.

59868
59869
59870
59871
59872
59873

Collins thinks Win We Must excellent and wants CND to republish it.

59874
59875
59876

Enclosed mimeo is a draft syllabus for one of the Committee of 100's schools for non-violence. Christopher Farley and Ralph Schoenman are listed among the speakers. BR is asked for a comment.

59877
59878
59879
59880
59881
59882
59883

Enclosed ts. is titled "Draft on Berlin"; enclosed pamphlet, produced by the Left Group Cambridge University Labour Club, is titled Nationalism, Communism, Marxist Humanism and the Afro-Asian Revolutions, by Raya Dunayevskaya.

59884
59885
59886

BR agreed to send a message for Weekend School at Ruskin College, Oxford.

59887
Attached is another typed copy of the letter.
59888

Schedule for August 6 events at Cenotaph and Hyde Park.

59889

Form letter addressed to "Dear Friend".

59890
59891
59892
59893
59894

Signed "An Honest Man"; "From Geoffrey Frampton" is written at the top by Edith Russell. Enclosed copy is of a letter to the Director-General of the BBC.

59895
59896
59897
59898

Attached is a carbon copy of the draft.

59899

Form letter is addressed to "Dear Sponsor".

59900
59901

Enclosed carbon copy is of a letter to the editor of The Times; enclosed ribbon copy is of a letter to L. John Collins.

59902

Enclosed carbon copy statement is titled "To the Conference of Uncommitted Nations at Belgrade, 1961", and is a joint effort of BR and Scott. BR has noted a phone number on the letter.