Sir-Mr. Bohumir Novak's application of a Russell quotation from the preface of A World Apart to Mr Brian Bell’s letter does not seem very apt. His is a laudable plea for democratic values. I can see nothing in Mr Bell’s letter that Lord Russell himself would not approve. It is ironic to see such a well-known humanist and freedom-lover as Bertrand Russell invoked to support the thought control of Mr Novak. I would remind Mr Novak that in the same preface Russell has a few things to say about "useless Vindictiveness," hatred and the source of cruelty in human_ nature. Nowhere is there a call for the abolition of democratic ideas. May I be permitted space for a quotation from Archibald MacLeish? "And freedom which in the old days was something you used has now become something you save-something you put away and protect like your other pos-
sessions-like a deed or a bond in a bank. The true test of freedom is its use. It has no other use."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 798, 5 November 1954, Page 5
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