BERTRAND RUSSELL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1940, Page 6

BERTRAND RUSSELL

: ATTACKED IN CALIFORNIA. 1 BAPTIST MINISTER'S SUIT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.rn ) LOS ANGELES, April 30. A Baptist Minister has sued officials of the University of California in an effort to force an ouster (ejection) of Bertrand Russell. Bertrand Russell is an English hereditary earl, but does not use the title. He holds the position of Professor of Philosophy at the University of California. and he has' been a prolific writer of works on mathematics and philosophy and books setting out his views on sex education. A. New York message dated March 30 last stated that: Declaring that the college board was attempting to establish a “chair of indecency," Justice McGeehan in the Supreme Court declared void an appointment of Bertrand Russell to the chair of mathematics at the City College of §Tew York. He added: “The appointment is an insult to the people of this city,” and he upheld a woman taxpayer's charge that Russell's leachings tend to corrupt students as “his writings proved him salacious, immoral, aphrodisiac, libidinous and lecherous.” The defence pointed out that Russell was engaged to teach mathematics not morals. On the ground of academic freedom. Harvard University later announced that the New York decision has not affected its appointment of Russell to leach philosophy and semantics. Announcing a reinstatement campaign, liberal academic and religious groups claimed that Russell is the i victim of an intensive campaign in the ! Hearst Press in which he has been = stigmatised as a “barnyard moralist, a < Communist, a nudist, and a dabbler’in c salacious poetry.” c