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...most extraordinary scenes the twentieth century can afford for future generations will be the sight of Bertrand Russell in his cell in Brixton Prison, serenely composing his technical Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy while serving the sentence imposed by the British government for the crime of being an active pacifist during World...
...London's seedy Camden Town, a Negro arguing with a white girl touched off a fight which developed into two days of sporadic rioting. In Birmingham, unionists rebelled when the city proposed to hire 300 Negro bus conductors, caved in only under a nationwide barrage of protests. In Brixton, slogans appeared on walls "Keep Britain White." Some pubs refused Negroes admittance...
...turned loose into . . . the anthropological galleries" of the great museum. Another day, on a trip to Russia, he would be riding a pony furiously over the steppes. It is no wonder that, at the age of 18. he planned (and might as well have pulled off) the rescue from Brixton Prison of his friend Vinayak Savarkar, who today leads India's "extreme religious Nationalists-the Hindu Mahasabha" (Papa Garnett retrieved his son before the scheme could be put into effect...
...golden echo" that rings throughout his book is of an English era when thoughtful men and women (except for those in Brixton) were so unconstricted and free from world-worry that the occasional explosions of war and revolution fell on their ears like detonations from another planet. So inbred was their sense of imperturbable peace that, when World War I broke out, none suspected that it was sounding the knell of the golden echo. Indeed, Author Garnett; fussing with his fungi, saw no need to join the army. His friend John Maynard Keynes (who grew up to be the great...
Born: Jan. 3, 1888, in drab Brixton, South London. His father was a policeman, his mother had been a housemaid...