BRACERS Record Detail for 56911
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Also in file is a BR ms. titled "The Atomic Bomb".
BR suggests writing on "some general aspects of the problem raised by the Greek trouble? I feel very strongly that Churchill has outlived his usefulness, and that, in defence of property, the British govt. is opposing all that is best on the Continent, and thereby arousing bitter hostility to us in America."
"'Democracy' (in Churchill's sense) enforced by bayonets is not a policy which workers at home can be asked to support, or for which our soldiers should be expected to die."
BR TO FORWARD / EMRYS HUGHES, 15 DEC. 1944
BRACERS 56911. ALS(X). National Library of Scotland
Proofread by K. Blackwell
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TRINITY COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE.
15 Dec. 1944
Dear Mr Hughes
Thank you for your letter of Dec. 13. I should like to do you more articles.1 Would you like the first to be on some general aspects of the problem raised by the Greek trouble? I feel very strongly that Churchill has outlived his usefulness, and that, in defence of property, the British Govt. is opposing all that is best on the Continent, and thereby arousing bitter hostility to us in America.
“Democracy” (in Churchill’s sense) enforced by bayonets is not a policy which workers at home can be asked to support, or for which our soldiers should be expected to die.
Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.
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more articlesForward had published Russell’s “Twilight of British Empire”, 2 Dec. 1944 (B&R C44.18). It is reprinted as 33 in Collected Papers 24.
