Famed pacifist succumbed to illness
Bertrand Russell dead at age 97
LONDON (UPI) — Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, pacifist and Nobel Prize winner whose views brought him into dispute with many world leaders, died Monday night at his home in North Wales. He was 97.
The white-haired Russell, a member of a titled family, died at 8 p.m. at Plas Penrhyn, Penryn-deraethra, Merionetshire. He had been ill with influenza.
The London Daily Sketch said Russell collapsed and died at his home.
His wife Edith was with him at the time of death and was put under the care of the family doctor.
Russell, considered one of the world's most brilliant mathematicians when he was in his thirties and one of its most brilliant philosophers when he was in his fifties, turned his career to an ardent advocacy of peace in the last third of his life.
When word of Russell's death spread, friends and relatives began the trek from London and other British cities to the North Wales village that was Russell's home.
His last public espousal of a cause was in December, when he protested to Soviet Premier
Alexei Kosygyn from the expulsion of novelist Alexander Solzhenitsy from the Russian Writers Union.
Because of his protests against American actions during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and the Vietnam War, some critics tagged him as anti-American.
Russell was one of the few men who had written his own obituary. Believing he would die at the age of 90, Russell wrote in 1937 that "by the death of the
When he sent a protest telegram to the White House during the height of the Cuban crisis, President John F. Kennedy publicly rebuked him, suggesting he send one to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Married four times, he will be succeeded to the earldom by his son, Viscount Amberley. He has a daughter by his second wife and a son by his third wife.
In 1667, Russell organized a Vietnam "war crimes" tribunal, held in Stockholm after French President Charles de Gaulle banned it from Paris. Politicians and educators were called to the meeting to testify against the Vietnam War policies of former President Lyndon B. Johnson and other American leaders.
third Earl Russell, or Bertrand Russell as he preferred to call himself, at the age of 90, a link with a very distant past is severed . . .
He was the last survivor of a dead epoch.
Russell was the author of more than 400 books and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Russell's career as a philosopher, writer and mathematician, which spanned more than 60 years, earned him many laurels, beginning in 1908 when he was named a fellow of the Royal Society in London. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, UNESCO's Kalinga Prize in 1958 and the Soning Prize for contribution to European culture in 1960.
He was a titled member of British aristocracy but he rarely used the title. He was born May 18, 1872, and orphaned when he was three.
But Russell spent his last years in controversy, firing criticism at the nuclear powers, especially the United States, and even went to jail at the age of 89 after demonstrating with much younger pacifists.
His father, Viscount Amberley had ordered he be raised an agnostic but the court gave young Bertrand to his grandparents, one
of whom was Lord John Russell, prime minister under Queen Victoria.
He lived in Richmond, Surrey,
outside of London, with his elder
son, John Russell Lord Amberley and John's wife, Susan, the daughter of American poet Vachel Lindsay, and their three daughters.
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February draft call includes 207 Kansans
Of the 19,000 men to be called up for active duty in the armed forces in February, 207 will be Kansans, according to Junior Elder, Kansas Selective Service System director. Approximately 1.1 per cent of the men called up this year will be Kansans, he said.
Draft lottery numbers of 60 and below are almost certain to be called up, Elder said. By statute, he said, men with II-S deferments may not be reviewed or reclassified by their draft boards, unless their deferments are no longer applicable.
Elder also said if a draft board went completely through its list of I-A classifications and did not
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fill its quota, the State Selective Service Board would ask it to review men in other classifications. He said they would go through the II classifications first. This classification includes farm, job, and similar deferments, but does not include the student deferments, he said. If the draft registrant is deferred until a certain date, however, his case could not be reviewed until that date, Elder said.
Elder said that he did not have the reports from local draft boards about the effects of enlistment in the National Guard. He said, however, that National Guard enlistment would probably affect local draft calls at some boards by causing some men holding numbers over 60 to be called.
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