BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 29 JUNE 1934
BRACERS 47097. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
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Deudraeth Castle Hotel
Portmeirion Peninsula
Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales1
June 29, 1934

Dear Warder

I have two good letters of yours to thank you for. I am most grateful for the publicity you are doing for my book; it certainly won’t be your fault if the book is not a success in America. I am quite willing you should continue to call it “Freedom versus Organization”.

The booklet is excellent, except for some misprints, and the fact (for which I am responsible) that the Table of Contents does not give the last few chapters in their final form. Section B should be “The Philosophical Radicals” (plural). Motto of Part I: A Republican on [not or] etc.

Would you be so kind as to return the typescript and MS to me as soon as you have no further use for them?

Thank you for what you say about my personal troubles. I am still engaged in litigation but I hope it may issue in a compromise out of court; this, however, will almost certainly mean that there will be no divorce. It was largely Dora’s vehement objections to Dartington (based upon no grounds that would bear stating) that precipitated the conflict. She wished the children to remain at a school kept by her; I thought a neutral atmosphere better for them.

I am sorry Beard has allowed himself to become hysterical about Hitler, who is, after all, a product of the Treaty of Versailles. I have taken great pains to avoid words that would make people anti-German, though I think just as ill of Hitlerism as Beard does. Per contra, it must be said that our Foreign Office is inclined to side with Germany and Japan. If war comes, I should wish England to be neutral; but I would rather see England on the side of France and Russia than on that of Germany and Japan. The situation is difficult, but I am sure that blind hate, such as Beard preaches, will do no good.

Best wishes.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell

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