BACKS BLOOMINGTON STUDENTS
Bertrand Russell, the famous British mathematician and philo~ sopher and the Honorary Chairman of the Committee to Aid the Bloom-~ ington Students, made the following statement regarding the Indiana “sedition” case,
"The attempt to persecute independent political thinking in the United States is indicative of the extent to which those who are pushing mankind towards nuclear annihilation are unprepared to allow . independent and critical. consideration of the alternatives, The persecution of the Bloomington Students is the most naked authoritarianism; it affects not only academic freedom, but the duty on the part of all of us to oppose the mad policies which governments have followed. The danger to survival today is intimately related to the inability to speak out effectively against governments, East and West. I hope that there will be an international demand for justice in the case of the Bloomington Students, whose example should inspire everyone who follows individual liberty. "
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