PATRICIA RUSSELL TO VICTOR GOLLANCZ, 3 OCT. 1945
BRACERS 56321. TLS(X). Warwick U. Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell

October 3 1945

Dear Mr. Gollancz,

We both think you are quite right, and this is only to say that my husband didn’t think your advice in the least impertinent, wasn’t at all offended by it,1 and will continue to give what support he can both to the relief and the political sides, though we all agree that it would be bad for the movement to have him in the chair. For that, we feel, you should have someone entirely respectable and neutral.

He will attend both meetings2 and looks forward to seeing you then. I may come to the second.

I hope you saw his second Forward article,3 which was reprinted in yesterday’s Manchester Guardian, and was much more moderate in tone. I think myself that it is a very useful article, but even so, best kept away from your chair.

Gilbert Murray won’t sign the letter to the New York Times,4 so will you send it with your own and my Lord’s signatures, and any others you have been able to collect?

In haste,

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Patricia Russell

• 1

  We both think … wasn’t at all offended by it See her letter of 2 Oct., record 56320.

• 2

  both meetings The “Save Europe Now” conference on 5 October and the public meeting on 8 October.

• 3

  his second Forward article “What Should Be British Policy towards Russia?”, 29 Sept.; as “Britain and Russia”, Manchester Guardian, 2 Oct. (B&R C45.16; 60 in Collected Papers 24).

• 4

  letter to the New York Times“Food Parcels Still Needed”, New York Times, 3 Nov., and signed also by Gollancz and the Bishop of Chichester (B&R C45.23; 49 in Collected Papers 24).