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...Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. In London the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament mustered up a 50-mile protest march to Britain's atomic-weapons research center at Aldermaston. The marchers' inspiration, dinned in mass meetings and magazine articles, was the view of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Writer Philip Toynbee, son of the famed historian, that nuclear disarmament will probably bring Communist domination, but that domination is preferable to the prospect of nuclear war. The London Daily Telegraph, speaking for millions of Britons, called the demonstrators "a motley...
...mishap in South Carolina fed fires already raging. By unhappy coincidence, Nikita Khrushchev chose this moment to write Bertrand Russell a 9,000-word letter attacking U.S. Secretary Dulles' stand on disarmament. This letter, published in the left-wing New Statesman, warned that "one absurd incident" involving a bomb-carrying plane could spread "horrible death," touch off a world...
...Paper, asserting flatly that major Russian aggression, even by conventional forces, would be met by nuclear retaliation, had roused a fresh hubbub of demands to ban the hydrogen bomb, to abandon nuclear weapons, to refuse the U.S.-made Thor rockets. Thousands attended meetings organized by 85-year-old Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who wants Britain to forswear its nuclear weapons as an example to mankind. Urged on by the Daily Herald, 70 Laborite M.P.s backed a "Victory for Socialism" group, dedicated to rejecting the U.S. missiles. Last week Sandys faced the House in the midst of what had become a national...
...Temper. In Aix-en-Provence, France, Joseph Bertrand, 46, angered when his house was awarded to his wife in a divorce suit, burned it down...
...publishers heavily hint, he had some distinguished anti-Eliot collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis). In Britain The Sweeniad-titled for Apeneck Sweeney, Eliot's loathed modern subman-has already provoked tempests in all the best literary teapots. "Bravo!" cried Graham Greene. "A delight," said Bertrand Russell (who was once more or less described by Poet Eliot as an "irresponsible foetus...