BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 14 SEPT. 1939
BRACERS 47287. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

212 Loring Avenue
Los Angeles Cal.1
Sp. 14, 1939

Dear Warder

Thank you very much for your kind letter. John and Kate, to our infinite relief, have both been ordered by the Court of Chancery to stay here for the present, so I am sending John to U.C.L.A. and Kate to a day-school. Kate, probably, will be allowed to stay for the duration, but I expect John will be sent for when they get short of man power.

I share your gloom. The war will be decided by starvation, and I should not be surprised if we starved first. I think we have very little chance of victory if America remains neutral. But I think the Germans would crack up as they did last time if they had any ill success. I cannot see the English giving in short of annihilation — they are as slow to stop as to begin. I wish I could have died before this time.

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

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