Statement for Polish Radio [1956]

Russell’s replies were enclosed in a letter to the Polish ambassador dated 2 March 1956 and published in a pamphlet entitled Polish Radio International Free Forum of the Air (Warsaw, 1956), pp. 45-6 (B&R B116). Publication probably took place late in May or early in June as Polish Radio sent Russell a copy of this booklet, which included his own “valuable contribution”, with a letter of 7 June. The initiative had been timed to coincide with the resumption of negotiations at the Subcommittee of the United Nations Disarmament Commission (see A33:4) and a meeting in Stockholm of the pro-Soviet World Peace Council. Each reply submitted by the sixty-two respondents (who included Lord Boyd Orr, Eric Burhop and Leopold Infeld) was aired on the state broadcasting service between 8 March and 3 April 1956.