Bertrand Russell and Cyrus Eaton: Correspondence and Connected News Articles
Russell - Eaton # 1 - 1930s to 1950s
Russell - Eaton Corresponce # 2
Russell - Eaton Corresponce # 3
Russell - Eaton Corresponce # 4
Bertrand Russell Record Statement to 1957 Conf in Pugwash and link to Anne Eaton's letter to her father describing the first Pugwash Conference participants.
The two documents that follow-published here for the first time-combine in rare fashion historical significance and human interest. The first, a statement by Bertrand Russell, is transcribed from a tape prepared by him for the first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, July 7-10, 1957. In this message, Russell, whose age and frail health prevented him from undertaking the journey to Pugwash, outlined to the conferees the background of the manifesto, issued by him, Einstein and nine other world-renowned scientists, which had led to the Pugwash meeting. He also sets forth, with the clarity and wit typical of Russell, his hopes and expectations for their work and for what was eventually to become known as the Pugwash Movement.
The second is a very different sort of statement-a human, witty and wise view of that first Pugwash Conference and its participants through the eyes of its gracious hostess, Mrs. Cyrus S. Eaton. In a letter to her father (Judge Walter T. Kinder of Cleveland), Anne Eaton succeeds in capturing both the reality and the spirit of that unique occasion with a rare combination of photographic precision and artistic imagination. The letter will be included in herforthcoming book, lrnperialist Circles and Red Squares. We are grateful to Mrs. Eaton for making these two documents available to the Bulletin.-B.T.F. Access under Anne Eaton.
The two documents that follow-published here for the first time-combine in rare fashion historical significance and human interest. The first, a statement by Bertrand Russell, is transcribed from a tape prepared by him for the first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, July 7-10, 1957. In this message, Russell, whose age and frail health prevented him from undertaking the journey to Pugwash, outlined to the conferees the background of the manifesto, issued by him, Einstein and nine other world-renowned scientists, which had led to the Pugwash meeting. He also sets forth, with the clarity and wit typical of Russell, his hopes and expectations for their work and for what was eventually to become known as the Pugwash Movement.
The second is a very different sort of statement-a human, witty and wise view of that first Pugwash Conference and its participants through the eyes of its gracious hostess, Mrs. Cyrus S. Eaton. In a letter to her father (Judge Walter T. Kinder of Cleveland), Anne Eaton succeeds in capturing both the reality and the spirit of that unique occasion with a rare combination of photographic precision and artistic imagination. The letter will be included in herforthcoming book, lrnperialist Circles and Red Squares. We are grateful to Mrs. Eaton for making these two documents available to the Bulletin.-B.T.F. Access under Anne Eaton.