ABSTRACT
At the very moment when Board Member C. Tuttle was blandly declaring that the Russell controversy would be settled by the public, manoeuvres were being completed to challenge the Board’s decision in the courts. On the day after the Board meeting, an order was sought in the State Supreme Court directing the Board of Higher Education as respondent, ‘to rescind and revoke the said appointment of the said Dr Bertrand Russell’. 1 The suit was brought, not against Russell, but against the Municipality of New York as the governing authority of the Board of Higher Education. This was presumably the way ‘public opinion’ was to be consulted.
