BR TO WILBUR BURTON, 24 MAY 1952
BRACERS 11839. ALD. McMaster. Russell 15 (1995): 47
Edited by K. Blackwell

Dear Mr. Burton,1

Thank you for your letter of May 13. I think you present the best case possible for what I still must call isolationism and in view of the uncertainty of all human affairs I will not assert dogmatically that you are mistaken. As I read you I find myself carried along and entering into your mood. I suppose one ground of difference between us must be that I think Russia bent on world dominion2 and you do not. I have not at the moment the necessary leisure for taking up your arguments one by one, but I will bear them in mind.

Yours sincerely

• 1

  [document] Wilbur Burton’s letter is at RA1 710.047926. He again puts the case for American isolationism. Published in K. Blackwell, “Two Days in the Dictation of Bertrand Russell”, Russell 15 (1995): 37–52 (at 47).

• 2

  I think Russia bent on world dominion BR held this view from shortly after World War II until shortly after the death of Stalin in 1953.