China, No Place for Tyrants [1955]

THIS PAPER WAS published in Dutch as “China, geen oord voor tyrannen”, Vrij Nederland, 16, no. 14 (26 Nov. 1955): 3 (B&R C55.37). The date and circumstances of its composition remain somewhat unclear. There are neither any prepublication versions of the text nor any letters exchanged between Russell and this Amsterdam-based weekly-which had started as a clandestine publication during the Nazi occupation. Indeed, the paper could have been written at any time subsequent to the proclamation of the Chinese People’s Republic in September 1949, although it seems unlikely that a periodical such as Vrij Nederland would have withheld publication of a piece submitted by Russell for very long.