BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
74603
This is a transcription of document .047310. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. Both are corrected by BR.
74604

Blacker praises The Policy of the Entente.

74605

On Blackett's address to the British Association.

Edith Russell has made a typed copy of BR's handwritten reply, including his abbreviations.

74606
Blackett and BR hold the same views on disarmament, he says.
74607

Blackett sends BR 6 copies of his New Statesman article. BR missed Clough Williams-Ellis's party.

74608

The clipping is from Life Magazine.

74609

On life in the U.S. under McCarthy. Blake mentions having 8 mm. films of BR and Conrad in Cambridge c.1945, and offers them to BR. [The films are not in Blake's archives.]

The letter was to be answered by Edith Russell. BR may not have received it until February 1954.

74610

See document .047300.

74611

See document .047300. In French.

74612

Blake feels that things are getting better in the U.S., but is still pessimistic about the lack of freedom in the current climate.

74613

Edith Russell sends 2 anecdotes that BR told her about Midhurst.

74614

Bligh asks to use the 2 anecdotes that Edith Russell sent him in his book. He plans to send her a copy of his latest book.

74615

Edith Russell thanks Bligh for his letter and the book he sent.

74616

This is BR's message written at the request of B'nai B'rith for the annual exposition. Edith Russell's accompanying letter is on the verso. See documents .047341 and .047343, record 366. This letter was to be displayed with BR's tie.

74617

Bisgyer asks if B'nai B'rith may borrow the Einstein letter for 1956, the inaugural year of the exhibition. See documents .047338 and .047339.

74618

From the Canadian branch of B'nai B'rith, Toronto.

74619

On logicism; on the paradoxes.

74620

On transfinite numbers.

74621

This is a transcription of document .047346. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. They are corrected by BR.

74622
This letter is in the same file as document .047321. The content is similar as well.
74623

BR sees the negro revolt as being the "means to opposing effectively and for the first time the assumptions of the United States and the race towards nuclear annihilation". He mentions the violence in Birmingham and "the March", presumably that of 28 August 1963 on Washington.

74624

BR praises Lecoin for his conscientious conviction.

74625

BR is proposed as a vice-president of the National Television Council. This letter was written by the campaign secretary on Violet Bonham-Carter's behalf.

74626

Boothby sends BR a copy of the speech he gave to the Imperial Defence College. The clipping is a letter to the Evening News, 2 Dec. 1963, in which Boothby quotes BR on "divine plans".

74627
Boothby thanks BR for his letter.
74628
74629

Boothby plans to retire from public life on his 65th birthday on February 12. He is unable to make a seven year covenant for the BRPF because he has overstretched his resources. See document .047374.

74630

BR is honoured to be Boothby's "non-Godfather".

74631

BR saw in the Times that Boothby has resigned from the David Brown Corporation because they would not exhibit in Moscow.

74632

BR is sorry about Boothby's legal problems "on a matter which ought not to concern the law".

74633

This is a transcription of document .047372, which has revisions.

74634

BR asks Boothby for a seven-year covenant for the BRPF.

74635

BR read the book What I Believe that Boothby sent him. BR says: "I agreed with your disbelief but not with your belief."

74636

Borghese asks BR to find some articles on English issues for Lo Spettatore for which he is the editor.

74637
This is a transcription of document .047377. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. Both are corrected by BR.
74638

Born asks for BR's opinion on a Declaration of Freedom which Born is being asked to sign.

74639

Born asks if BR would write a recommendation so that his article, "Man and the Atom", could be published in apopular English periodical or newspaper.

74640
74641

Born has enclosed his article "Man and the Atom". He has been approached by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists who would like to publish it. He will not make any other attempts to have it published in England.

74642

Born sends BR a report (not present) of a discussion between Adenauer and some atomic scientists.

74643

On BR's "Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev".

74644

On Khrushchev's reply to BR's open letter.

74645

Born read BR's "excellent article in The New Statesman" and encloses a poem, "Dear Mr. Dullchov and Dear Mr. Krushless".

74646

Born sends BR a copy of his correspondence with the Defence Minister of the Federal Republic, Franz Joseph Strauss.

74647

The offprint is in German and concerns classical mechanics.

74648

Born asks BR for help in nominating Cyrus S. Eaton for the Nobel Peace Prize.

74649

BR thinks that neither he nor Born fits the requirements to nominate someone for a Nobel Peace Prize.

74650

Born encloses his letter to Linus Pauling. See document .047394a.

74651

The Bishop of Hong Kong refers to The Problem of China.

74652
On BR's imprisonment.
74653

Born has read BR's "Thoughts on the 50-Megaton Bomb" in The Statesman and thinks it's admirable.

74654

Born is impressed by Unarmed Victory.

74655

This note documents Born's attempt to telephone BR. BR was unable to speak to him. The topic was to be a letter to Khrushchev re Soviet Jews.

74656

The photograph is of Born.

74657

Born received BR's letter to Khrushchev and plans to send it to people who would be interested in the matter. He asks if he should send it to the German press.

74658
74659

On President Kennedy's assassination, the Vietnam war and Goldwater.

74660

Born sends a copy of a philosophical lecture he gave at Lindau (not present).

74661

Born had a heart attack and was in the hospital for 6 weeks. He complains that BR is said to be in support of UFOs.

74662

BR gives Born permission to circulate his open letter as much as possible in Germany.

74663

BR likes Born's "Krushless and Dullchev".

74664

BR will read Born's paper on "The Possibility of Prediction in Classical Mechanics".

74665

Born sends BR a copy of his letter to Linus Pauling. BR has written to Pauling and encloses a copy of that letter with this (not present).

74666

BR will deliver Born's letter to Khrushchev to the Soviet Embassy if Born wishes BR to do so.

74667

BR writes of his admiration for Born, "before it is too late". He praises Born's "freedom from self-assertion".

There is a second carbon copy of this letter in the file. Both have been corrected.

74668

Born sent BR a copy of his Physics and Politics. BR writes on "macroscopic determinism".

74669

Born sent BR a copy of his article "Is There Still Hope?".

74670
BR was ill but is feeling better. His temperature during the flu was 104 degrees.
74671
74672

On the reception of the appeal on behalf of Soviet Jews.

74673

Report on the BRPF's first six months.

74674

BR asks Born to see Dr. Marcus Bierich who wants to start a German branch of the BRPF.

74675

BR is interested in Professor Kogon's efforts and hopes to hear from him. BR is planning a conference on the assassination of President Kennedy and wants to know if Born will sponsor it.

There is a draft of the letter in the file. See document .047421a.

74676
74677

BR's copy of Max Born's paper is missing a page and BR asks if Rosbaud would send it to him. This letter has been corrected and annotated. It is typed on letterhead.

74678
This is a transcription of document .047427. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.
74679

Bose brought Radhakrishnan to meet BR in 1926, he says.

74680
74681

There is a note in this file quoting Tagore on BR in A Flight of Swans.

74682

The poems are "New-Comer" and "Lord Buddha's Birthday".

74683
74684

Bose's letter of October 21 was mislaid during "an unusual press of work".

74685
74686

BR states, "The acquiescence in the horrors in store for us is owing to a failure of imagination on the part of most and a love for power on the part of the few who possess it."

This letter is in reply to document .047439.

74687

The verso of the postcard states: "Paul Geheeb and a child from Africa".

74688

On the fire at Beacon Hill School. See documents .047440 and .047441. "Making fires is no sign of depravity", BR writes.

74689

Bottome sends the "Writers' Declaration on Race Discrimination".

74690

BR is willing to sign the Writers' Declaration.

This response is on the verso of document .047445.

On religion in the declaration: "I have no objection to the mention of the Ten Commandments as I hardly ever do any work on Sundays."

74691

BR's name was accidentally omitted from the list of signatories to the Writers' Declaration on Race Discrimination.

74692

There is also a note in the file. In it BR quotes a line from Midsummer Night's Dream, "Oh Bottom, how art thou translated".

74693

Bottome sends BR the letter she sent to the Daily Herald, because she does not think they will publish it so this is the only way that BR would see her commentary on the BBC programme with BR and Mrs. Roosevelt.

74694

BR sends Bottome some literature that he hopes she will find of interest.

74695
74696
This is a draft of document .047421.
74697

On Xavier Leon and Pierre Boutroux.

74698

In French. This is a transcription of document .047457. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. Both are corrected by BR.

74699

Boutwood is not keen on democracy but does favour the International Organization of the Proletariat.

74700

The Movement for Colonial Freedom supports the objectives of the International Conference for the Release of Iraqi Political Prisoners.

Karim believes that only by struggle against imperialism can Iraqi people establish a society based on justice and peace.

74701

Zaki states that the International Conference was a great success and sends documents which were at the conference. He mentions that the International Continuing Committee was set up to send a fact finding commission to Iraq. He hopes that everyone that receives this letter will be able to join the committee.

This document is a rough draft. In file are final incomplete TL(MIM) copies, documents .186583-.186584 and .186649. Attached to document .186649 is the form for joining the committee, document .186650.

74702


The International Conference on a General Amnesty for Iraqi Political Prisoners wants President Arif to annul all death sentences, release all detainees without delay and unconditionally, and grant general amnesty for all political prisoners in Iraq.

In file are TL copies, documents .186588, .186589, .186621, .186627 and .186634. Also in file is the draft of this letter, document .186586 and there are TL(CAR) copies with BR's name, documents .186657 to .186659.