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SATAN IN THE SUBURBS AND OTHER STORIES (148 pp.)-Bertrand Russell-Simon & Schuster...
...recaptured by her husband in the end) makes up the remainder of Benefit of Clergy, the best of the five short stories in this collection. But Penelope's astonishment at finding her husband a clergyman is as nothing compared to the reader's at finding Philosopher Bertrand Russell a short-story writer. Even Russell himself cannot explain why, in his 80s, he has suddenly turned fictioneer: "For some reason entirely unknown to me I suddenly wished to write the stories in this volume, although I had never before thought of doing such a thing...
...York Times letters column, Old Socialist Norman Thomas found a letter from Old Philosopher Bertrand Russell defending teachers who refuse to answer the questions of congressional committees. Britain's Russell compared the teachers' stand to George Washington's disobedience of the law and to the Christian martyrs' refusal to sacrifice to the emperor. This was too much for Thomas, who this week fired off a letter of his own to the Times. Wrote...
...Would Bertrand Russell not agree that honest speech is a far better defense of civil liberty than silence plus a pleading of the Fifth Amendment? The parallel to George Washington or the Christian martyrs is imaginary...
...anticommercial forces included not only Laborites and predictable highbrows like Bertrand Russell, but an astonishing number of Tories, e.g., Lord Halifax, Randolph Churchill and such formidable lords spiritual as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York...