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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (60436)11/6/2000 4:42:34 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
I wonder whether you have any evidence that Bertrand Russell supported Hitler's ideas. Bertie went to prison in WWI in opposition to the war and was a committed pacifist, and from 1932 to 1940 his ideas underwent a substantial change.
"I had been able to view with reluctant acquiescence the possibility of the supremacy of the Kaiser's Germany; I thought that, although this would be an evil, it would not be so great an evil as a world war and its aftermath. But Hitler's Germany was a different matter. I found the Nazis utterly revolting -- cruel, bigoted, and stupid. Morally and intellectually they were alike odious to me. Although I clung to my pacifist convictions, I did so with increasing difficulty. When, in 1940, England was threatened with invasion, I had never seriously envisaged the possibility of utter defeat. I found the possibility unbearable, and at last, consciously and definitely decided that I must support what was necessary for necessary for victory in the Second War .... The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v2, p.287.
Now what evidence do you have that he was pro-Nazi?
You just make up things. You are a liar. And an idiot.
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