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...went for the international Continental Congress of Solidarity with Cuba that planned to convene in Brazil last week. All of Fidel's overseas friends were expected: Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Russian Author Vanda Vasilevskaya, Mexico's ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, British Guiana's Janet Jagan, and a couple hundred more. Castro planned to send a large delegation; placards were printed and street demonstrations planned to take place in São Paulo and Rio. The organizers felt so sure of themselves that they sent a delegation trooping into the office of Foreign...
...indeed is the plight if the American Gaullist. You and I and Secretary McNamara alike have all been deprived of our New York Times; and that is horrible enough. But for anyone who does not believe that Charles de Gaulle is some diabolical combination of Louis Napoleon and Bertrand Russell, breakfast reading of late has been an experience verging on the traumatic...
Scarcely had Britain's ban-the-bomb Committee of One Hundred been reduced to 99 than it slipped another notch to 98. First Bertrand Russell, 90, turtlenecked civil insurgent, resigned as president on the grounds that he had other things to do-things like writing a book about the peacemaker's role he believes he played in the Cuban and Sino-Indian crises, and keeping up his pen-palship with Khrushchev, Chou En-lai and Castro. Then Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 25, sidewalk-sitting daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, resigned by mail. A Committee of One Hundred spokesman refused...
...fear thought," says Bertrand Russell, "as they fear nothing else on earth-more than ruin, more even than death." But in every age since the pyramid builders', there have been a few exceptional men who would willingly risk death for the enjoyment of thinking. Whether Socrates had as high an I.Q. as Shakespeare or Descartes, Schweitzer or Einstein, will never be known. What is certain is that all such men used their brains as energetically as they knew how. Today, man may have no greater brain capacity than the ancients, but he has revolutionary ideas about how to exploit...
...Establishment. People who have arrived don't care what you say." Nor does anyone seem to mind the frequency with which Brooks, a public school boy who turned socialist in the Depression, uses his ads to plug for left-wing causes. Seeking a house for Pacifist Philosopher Bertrand Russell. Brooks recently pontificated: "Another old client. Earl Russell, seeks house anywhere London; scruffy area around St. Pancras would do. Short lease, about five years. Presumably within that time sanity-or the bomb-will have prevailed...