World Government [1957]

IN THIS HITHERTO unpublished letter to the editor of Le Soir, Brussels, Russell emphasized his abiding support for world government. He had been advised by Patrick Armstrong, clerk to the Parliamentary Group for World Government, that his views had been inaccurately represented in the leading Belgian newspaper’s translation of his recent interview with Allan Chappelow (Appendix V, p. 378). The choice of tense in the allegedly offending passage implied that Russell no longer believed in the world government ideal. In French it read: “J’ai cru pendant de longues années qu’un Etat federal mondial, base sur une puissance plus grande que celle d’aucuns de ses membres, est la seule solution qui conduise a la paix.”