gw'viiimwiii nm w i miui is w i n sny man unjustly the true place for a just man. is also in prison . . . the onlyv 7 muuic house in m a a slave slave state stare in which Christie a free man can abide with honour.' H. D. THOREAU & Carballo! The Defence Committee AN ANARCHIST W EEKLY-*!. SEPTEMBER 12 1964 Vol 25 No 28 Still needs FUNDS !

gIN C E the last issue of Freedom appeared the 18-year old Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie has been found guilty by a Military Court of WHAT LIES BEHIND THE “terrorist activities against the Spanish Government” and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. His alleged accomplice, Spanish carpen­ ter, 40-year old Fernando Carballo of Madrid, has received a 30-year Christie Terror Trial ? sentence. At a trial lasting less than four hours the Court was satisfied at least Christie’s friends in this like the movements that rely on /Martyrdom is a bad thing, is bad faced with the militancy and martyr­ that the accused were guilty, and a country (for we have still been un­ symbolic figures, inspired leaders f propaganda for minority movements dom of the few, may well conclude few hours later announced the price able to establish the identity of Car­ (and martyrs fit the bill perfectly) A such as ours because it tends to in- that they have nothing to give, or they must pay for their guilt. Both ballo, in the vital period between the anarchist approach is to ordinary hibit people who are sympathetic to that their intended contribution is accused, according to the reports, his arrest and trial, has been done, individuals, working men, who they a cause and would be prepared to derisory, and will therefore with­ draw from activity of any kind. admited their guilt, and Mr. Neil we would earnestly suggest that seek, to influence in the direction of contribute what they can to it, but there is not the remotest possibility There is a parallel surely here with McDermott, Q.C., M.P., who had self-responsibility and militancy, by who do not feel able to rise to such been instructed by the Christie-Car- that the Franco government will the party and Union rank-and-file the validity of their arguments and heights nor are prepared, for various ballo Defence Committee’s London consider any drastic revision of the who leave everything to their lead­ the values they defend. Anarchists, reasons, to take risks which might solicitors and who flew to Madrid to sentence or re-open the case in the if anything, are embarrassed by ers because the latter have been attend the trial said at a press con­ immediate future, we must accept actions wich appear a self-conscious involve them in persecution and im­ built-up as supermen who get things ference on his return that Christie that Christie is locked-up and Car­ Invitation to martyrdom; by which prisonment. These sympathisers, done. had told him that he had made his ballo too, assuming he is a comrade y e mean actions, or .gestures which confession freely; that he had made (and not a stool-pigeon who will ire doomeda priori to failure. The Terrorism of Governments a full confession because he was soon be back doing his master’s bid­ the Stuart Christie case has done hesitation in certain situations. caught red-handed. ding), and that we have therefore We have seen quite a number of F time to regain our breath and ex­ examples of this during the past few harm to our cause in this country What are the Commandos, every Christie’s alleged confession has years in the anti-nuclear movement. it will be for the reasons we have “civilised” nation boasts of possess­ caused consternation among a num­ amine the situation as .calmly as our intelligence and objectives permit. We are not referring to the original outlined above and not because it ing as part of its armed forces, if ber of our comrades up and down intentions of the Committee of 100 has revived the “image” of anar­ not terrorists? Think of the number the country who from the outset to engage in mass demonstrations of chists as terrorists and bomb- of books, films based on commando were convinced that he was the No more Martyrs ! civil disobedience in which one throwers. If these were character­ raids, think of the number of medals victim of a frame-up because from courted mass arrest, the approach istics attributable only to the anar­ for valour awarded to commandos what they knew of him, he would believe we interpret the feel­ clearly being against individual chists there would be reason to feel and parachutists for services ren­ not have been willing to become in­ ings of the comrades whom sacrifice and martyrdom; indeed the worried. But terrorism is, in fact, dered! We shall be told, “but this volved in activities connected with we esteem when we say that our theory was that the whole legal and used by all governments without Continued on page 3 terrorist violence. Other comrades overriding concern is that Stuart penal machinery would> break down. have expressed their fears that the Christie should serve as little of his It^ was when that mass support was! considerable publicity ..given to the .Tprison sentence as possible. (Need­ not -available X)I1 a STffiiciSht' Stale to' case* will have done great harm to less to say we link Carballo to even hope to prevent the police from the anarchist cause in this country Christie if he is, in fact, an anarchist doing just as they liked with demon­ by reviving, or confirming, the once or anti-Franco revolutionary). The strators—selective arrests, persecu­ popular view that equated anarchism anarchist movement, just as the tion of organisers and ,the\activists— with bomb-throwing. THE ANNUAL PRETENCE socialists, communists and every that the “demoralisation” of the civil Since everything that could be dissident movement in a hostile disobedience movement, in our gOM E months ago the magazine from Britain and has done nothing done for Christie and Carballo, by regime, has had martyrs. But un- opinion, set in. New Society ran a series of to implement it, and that the Con­ articles on issues of social impor­ gress hasn’t done a thing about it INDUSTRIAL NOTES tance such as hospitals and care of The arrangement for next week old people, which were going to be seems to be to let the reaffirmation ing of their piece-work mates. ignored by mutual consent by the through quietly rather than make Because of this opposition, the union major parties at the forthcoming a fuss. After all, no one is going leadership, though possibly willing to general election. With the election to put it into practice! General Dock Strike? accept, are in an awkward spot. They approaching, the range of subjects This manoeuvre, which the T.U.C. will insist, as they have already done, on going through all of the procedure that must not be mentioned in case chiefs are obviously happy to have Port workers’ delegates have rejected of our union on September 21.” the poor electors images of the two taking place anyway, is excused by the “final” pay offer by the employers If the union executives agree to strike formalities in the hope' of finding some and have decided to ask the executives on this date, then they will follow the way out. Although arbitration has parties becomes blurred, is becoming the idea that a discussion on mili­ of the four unions to sanction strike “disputes procedure” laid down in the already been rejected, there is always the larger and the non-issues more tarism might alienate votes from action in order to gain demands. national agreement. This is that 28 possibility of a court of inquiry. There specific. Labour. The subjugation of the The new “final” offer, once again kept days’ notice will be given as they in­ is still time for compromise, for I doubt At the T.U.C. Congress which workers’ organisation to the political secret by the unions and the employers, tend to end the agreement and then 14 very much that the unions’ executives will be in progress when this article needs of a parliamentary party has was 12/6d. per week for time-workers days’ notice of strike action. This brings want a strike on their hands, especially appears efforts are being made to the effect of helping the bureaucracy and Up) for piece-workers. The em­ them to November 1st, and as the date during the general election period. prevent, or hush up the subject of to impose itself, stifling discussion, ployers also offered increased “fall-back” now favoured for the General Election By using these procedure formalities, opposition to Polaris hases, which and acting as a brake on direct rates from £7 16s. 9d. to £9. This is is October 15th, the threat of a national the union leaders may be able to hold action. The threats to withhold the the wage received by dockers, who on off any unofficial action. They are the A.S.L.E.F. is seeking to have dock strike is possible during the election full force of strike action that the reporting to work, find none available. period. helped in this by certain political group­ reaffirmed. It is also hoped that However this offer was conditional on This has been pointed out by the ings, active in industry, who, when delegates who want to discuss the dockers could wield in their wage discussions on the decasualisation of the national press, as well as the fact that official action is being considered, hold question of trade union structure demands are another example. docks. Mr. Cousins was concerned with the back workers wishing to take immediate will obediently shut up rather than However, it is impossible to ex­ After hearing of this rejection, Mr. busmen’s strike in 1956 which was action. These groupings, who compete cause any unseemly disagreements. pect change while the majority of Cousins, General Secretary of the Trans­ supposed to have contributed to the amongst themselves, are another set pf Let us suppose for a moment that workers are just not interested in port & General Workers’ Union, said defeat of the Labour Party at the leaders, waiting to gain the positions, without being extreme and expect­ taking action about their condi­ “This is a serious situation, but we election in the following year. Will influence or control of union executives. ing the workers all to be anarchists, tions of work or the relation of shall hope to avoid a conflict. There Mr. Cousins take the chance and back If these claims are to be won, then the trade union movement was in­ labour to social conditions. Yet will be a discussion by the executive strike action? some form of industrial action will have ultimately the positions of the Union Of course there is still plenty of time to be taken. There is no point in delay. spired by a spirit of democracy and to reach some sort of agreement, although Employers might say that the average a desire to reflect and represent its leaders depends on the passive sup­ going on what the employers say, they wage of the dockers is above that of members. Then the annual Con­ port of the millions of card-holding are ready to make a stand. After all other workers, but this is because action gress would surely be a meeting at members, and the fact that this the government was very quick to blame has been taken to make it so. They which the most controversial sub­ assent, passively given, can put these them in 1962' when, they conceded and don’t get this wage for nothing, and the jects would be heatedly debated, leaders into some of the controlling so avoided a national strike by one hour. employers prefer not to point out the possibly leaving those on which cliques in the country, is surely a They say: “There will be no retreat. We vast increase in productivity and the there was substantial agreement to sign that if it were used intelligently ANARCHY 43 have made an extremely generous offer, increased profits they have reaped over and vigorously by the people, they be dealt with by committees. After and the force of our arguments is so the years. Added to this are the could overthrow the present system ON SALE NOW DISCUSSES overwhelming that we should only be attempts of the employers to do a deal having come to a decision on these buying off trouble if we offered more with the unions over decasualisation. important issues, the delegates would of capitalism and militarism. money.” seeking even bigger profits at the ex­ make sure that any Council elected The intrigues at Blackpool, the PARENTS In actual fact, I think the union pense of the docker. for the coming year reflected the farce that pretends to be the annual executives agree that it is a “generous" The unions know that their members views of the Congress on important meeting of representatives of the offer, but the rank and file docker doesn’t are against these plans of “buying the matters, and that special groups working people of Britain, is at the & TEACHERS think so. They have shown their op­ rule book” in return for decasualisation would be chaiged with implement­ same time a symbol of the stultify­ position to this and are out for 25/-, and have so far made no agreeement. ing the important resolutions. ing effect of political socialism, and for time-workers and 5% for piece­ They also know of the determination to ANARCHY it Published by What we see at the present T.U.C. of the fact that no genuine workers' workers. The time-worker, a minority, win these new claims. The rank and organisation can live unless the vast Freedom Press at 2s. is unable to gain higher rates through file should not wail for the leadership is that the Council is in disagree­ • the first Saturday of every month local negotiations and so these men are to make its procedure decisions, but ment with the Congress decision majority of its members are con­ determined to get the 25/-. They are organise now for industrial action to calling for the removal of Polaris scious, active and determined to not alone in this for they have the back- win the demands. - P-T- missiles and American nuclear bases take part in it. P.H. FREEDOM ^EVERAL meetings and demonstrations processes were barred to them. And so in support of Stuart Christie and in Spain. Accepting that Christie had Fernando Carballo have' taken place carried a few sticks of dynamite, he during the last fortnight, the majority ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF thought the irony of 20 years’ im­ of them being in London. prisonment for this would bring itself AND ANOTHER Under the Chairmanship of Jack home even to a New Statesman column­ Stevenson "a public meeting held at the ist—how many years would the latter APPEAL... Conway Hall, London, on the 28th give for the wholesale ' massacre of August was addressed by Donald Rooum, socialists, communists, anarchists by the D ear F riend , cartoonist; Sid Bristow, Labour Coun­ Franco regime? It was the duty of On August 27, 1964, at Stratford Mag­ cillor for Hackney;’ Douglas Kepper, Christie& Carballo those present and those who supported istrates’ Court, Ron Bailey, Del Foley Secretary of the London Committee of the campaign to demand Christie’s un­ and Des Watson were convicted of 100; Augustin Roa, Secretary of the CNT conditional release. charges in connection with break-ins to in exile; Philip Sansom, Freedom Press, Philip Sansom welcomed the Spanish Civil Defence Headquarters in the Ilford and Ken -Hawkes, Syndicalist Workers’ fort; Ernest Davies; David Ennals; the recent trial of Nelson Mandela, and visitors and, as ' had other speakers, area. Fines totalling £350 were imposed, Federation. The meeting was not very Judith Malina; Gordon Shaffer; Sidney his statement in justification of sabotage impressed'on them that they were taking. Silverman,' MJ?.; and Anthony Wedge- to be paid within a month. The three well attended, but there was a good which had favourable- publicity in this part in an experience of freedom which men are members of the Essex Com­ response to the Chairman’s appeal for wood-Benn, M.P. country. As for explosives—this coun­ they could not find at home. He was A tape-recorded message from Ber­ mittee of 100 and Ilford YCND, and funds. try is stiff with explosives, and the gentle­ confident that millions of Spaniards have been active in asking the Ilford On Sunday the 30th August, following trand Russell was played. men of Aldermaston are not doing would have welcomed anything that Civil Defence authorities awkward ques­ a meeting at Speakers’ 'Corner, 200 On the plinth a blown-up photograph prison terms. The struggle for freedom might have been done to release the grip tions for several years. people, some of them members of of Hitler and Franco inspecting Nazi is going on every day everywhere in the of Franco’s tyranny. Freedom stops at Ron Bailey (post-graduate student) and Hackney Y.S., C.N.T.,, S.W.F., and troops, and a model of a man’s- figure world. He urged that we should go the Pyrenees. He castigated the imper­ Del Foley (trainee teacher) have to find A.F.B., marched in protest to the Spanish crucified o n . a swastika emphasized the forward from the meetting and work tinence of the charge against Christie £150 each by September 24, 1964 or go Embassy,, led by a loudspeaker van theme which was introduced by speaker damned hard for Christie. and Carballo of “plotting psychological to prison for six months; Des Watson carrying a replica of a garrotte and its after speaker: that the Franco regime Augustin Roa, Secretary of the C.N.T. terror”—coming from a regime which (clerk) was fined £50 and has raised a victim. The police, out in force as had been put into power by the armed in exile, spoke, in Spanish, which I do for 25' years had not plotted, but execut­ loan to cover this amount. usual, prevented the marchers from ap­ might of Hitler and Mussolini and re­ not understand';'^nd there was no trans­ ed. psychological terror. ' Yet . he did not We regard these fines, and the alterna­ proaching the Embassy, but allowed a mained in spite of a war against fascism lation. But the obstreperous young advocate a : boycott of visits to Spain tive prison sentences, as utterly dispro­ deputation of 12 through to deliver saj; which had cost millions of lives. Spanish tourists in front of the plinth thus cutting-off the'Spanish people from portionate to the offences the three were petition of protest to the Ambassador. Mike Callinan opened on behalf of the who had barracked from the commence­ all contact with freedom. He had in charged with. They are unable to find Following the return of the deputation, Syndicalist Workers’ Federation. They ment of the meeting, listened for the fact recently returned from a holiday such a large sum within a month, and we the march continued through the West would continue the fight against the most part. ■ in Spain and hoped to be able to gc are therefore appealing for help. They End and back to Speakers’ Comer. A Franco regime. An intensified campaign George Clarke spoke of the waste of there again. He wanted all national already have to pay legal costs, as the large number of leaflets were handed out against tourism in Spain would go for­ keeping in gaolSthis young man who had barriers everywhere to be broken down. magistrate twice refused to grant them and approximately £10 was collected for ward from that afternoon, insults would something to contribute to society in the Going through relevant. details of legal aid. the fund. The Christie-Carballo De­ be hurled at the Spanish Embassy and way of idealism; and who would learn Christie’s life—his birth -under the We are asking for outright donations, fence Committee met each evening of windows might be broken there. In the nothing in a Spanish gaol. He. did not shadow of the Hiroshima bomb, the large or small. the next week, commencing on the Tues­ course, of his speech he made a relevant commend Christie’s action but commen­ climate of violence in which his genera­ We are also asking for loans, which day and a picket was maintained outside point in reminding his hearers that in ded his courag® and thought everything tion had been reared, he spoke of Ron Bailey and Del Foley will repay the Embassy. After the announcement this country Brendan Behan at about should be doriejshort of blowing up the Christie’s youth, impulsiveness, generous- at a total rate of at least £12 per month. of the sentences, three comrades kept it Stuart Christie’s age had received for House of ComnioBS to secure his release. heartedness, the “fire in. the belly”, the If more than £350 is raised by these going all night. a similar offence a term of 18 months' Paul Foot said he had known Christie idealism he was entitled to have at the methods, some of the loans will be re­ It had been previously decided to imprisonment. as a member pf the Young Socialists, age of 18, While not condoning what paid immediately. Should more than book Trafalgar Square, provisionally, for Emrys Thomas spoke of his party’s which organization he had left- to join was done, h e; claimed it should be £350 be raised in outright donations, the; j a meeting on the next Saturday and this support of the Republic during the civil the anarchists. One of their criticisms treated as a stupidity, which was what balance will be given to the Committee turned out to be a wise decision, for on war. He supported this campaign not of him had been that he never did it was.. of 100 Welfare Fund. Monday it was learned, that the trial was only for the release of Stuart Christie anything! It seemed that to some But galling though it might be for an Money should be sent to Jon Tinker, to be the following day. The meeting but in the interest of the liberty of all. people the question whether or not anarchist to plead with a government, 22 Clifton Gardens, London, W.9. It is in the square; with about 400 people Ian Dixon metaphorically brought Christie had carried .. explosives- . was all we can do towards getting the release vital that enough money be received by present, was addressed by Mike Callinan, onto the platform “my old Dad”; who crucial; he thought it almost irrelevant. of Stuart Christie or a reduction in his us by Thursday, September 24. All con­ S.W.F., Paul Foot, Y.S., Emrys Thomas.. on reading of the Stuart Christie case He had scathingjcomments to make on sentence.. is- to appeal, to say “please”, tributions will be acknowledged, and we- LL.P., Ian Dixon, Committee of 100, A. had commented: Well, if he Was bring­ the New Smrciwnt'columnist who didn’t to plead on his behalf. hold ourselves jointly responsible for Roa, C.N.T., Philip Sansom, L.A.G. and ing explosives into the country . . . But. .see any reasonTfor holding a protest After the meeting a protest petition the repayment of loans, and guarantee, George Clarke, C.N.D. his old ■ Dad” was of the generation meeting like any epuntryi. was handed into the Spanish Embassy that the money will only be used to pay ; The Chairman of the .meeting read which had fought for six years against Spain was boundijb; be. harsh pn terror­ and there was a march to Speakers’ the three fines.,. out the following statement: “We wish the type of regime which Franco repre­ ists. Paul Foo^pted the example eg. Corner via Hyde Park Corner. A further Yours sincerely, to protest at the savage sentences of sents. On this basis every member of South Africa, where people admitted to collection was taken which realised over P eggy D enny , T erry Chandler ,’ 20 and 30 years passed on Stuart Christie the British army would deserve-a prison terrorism and Wgpe applauded by the £50. Ian D ixon , P at Pottle , and Fernando Carballo. We appeal to sentence. He further brought tp mind progressive world because the normal Continued on page 3 J on T inker , K en Weller. \ all th o se who value human dignity, .free­ l y dom and justice to join our protest LETTERS / against this barbarous action of a regime._ —r which came Tb power bjr force oT arms -: ' 'Tn^fact"^3enera! -Franco’ has” more nr~ and has since maintained itself by terror common with General Nguyen Kahn WhWs than ever he had with Hitler. In spite and brutality.” D ear C omrades , Signed: Fenner Brockway, M.P., Julian ■ and of participation in Spain’s coalition I am constantly being told that Free­ Beck; Claud Cockbum; Dr. Alex Com- government by the fascist Falange (of I intend no criticism • of those who jElogans to^a Stew audience, one. gathers which incidentally Franco was never a dom will not publish personal attacks have worked so hard and so long organ­ that they. ..woujd prefer thte/ very death member), it is not a fascist rdgime so on people, but I now see that this applies ising meetings and demonstrations^ on ,of Christie tm .any improvement of much as a simple military despotism, of only to self-styled anarchists, since Jack behalf of Sniart ^Christie.’ Franco’s piffiliepmage. the slummy, Roman Catholic, Coca-Cola Robinson spends a good chunk of last It is not their fault, but ill luck, that’ To argue that Franco is a Nazi, be- type which abounds among America’s week’s F reedom abusing Malcolm Mug­ each time they have organised a meeting “cause his war Against the Spanish people dependents in S. America and S.E. Asia.- geridge in an incredibly biassed way. I BOOKS? appealing for clemency, there seems to was used by the Luftwaffe as a "live hoped to read a review of the BBC TV2"; have been at least pnq speaker roundly exercise”, is no more valid than to argue Unlovely as they are, such regimes are programme “Let Me Speak”, but instead we can supply challenging the Franco regime, as if in that Nguyen Kahn is an American-style not necessarily deaf to appeals for clem­ I got a collection of incredibly elaborate ency, especially judiciously hacked, well- A N Y koofc ia print. a deliberate attempt to provoke them democrat, because he was assisted into metaphors and the assertion that 1 "hef A loo out-of-print book* n rrd a i for into making a martyr of Stuart. Ob­ power, by th g Americans. ^ There are lubricated' appeals made on hehalf of (Muggerdige) believes in nothing and is, —And frequently found! TM* farlrllii viously if he is released, for whatever better reasons ffian ideological identifi­ foreigners. For GhristielS sake let us in short, the common viewer”. Really, paper-badex, children’s book* and taxi reason, it w ill. appear to many naive cation, for a ,big military power inter- make one. Jack, how can we criticise the capitalist kook*, ffiIcare supply pabHsbw's a n a vening. In /a-dyfl. war. press for bias when you come out with , V possible! people (and will be argued by various London, Sept,. D.R. interested people) that the Spanish gov­ a thing like that? ernment is merciful, even a little liberal. 1 met Muggeridge on the TV pro­ NEW BOOKS And from the way some self-styled com­ gramme, and I was pleasantly surprised. ' William Morris, the Man and rades of Stuart have leapt on the oppor­ He was not the pomopus old menace I the Myth R. Page Arnot 15/' tunity to shriek out the old anti-Franco ..LIKE MONEY! had expected, he struck me as a kindly, Crime and Peoanaiiiy MONEY URGENTLY NEEDED hiring loud-speaker equipment, printing principled, slightly aristocratic man with H. J. Eysenck 25/- Financial Report of Christje-Carballo a deep belief in the desirability of a Marxism o f our Tune G. Martinet 18/- of posters and stickers,’ etc, Defence Committee, More money is urgently needed if we Free Society. - His negative side. is. I Harold Wilson and die “New think, composed entirely of a critical Britain” G. £. Noel 21/' The Christie-Carballo Defence Com­ are to be able to carry on the campaign Letters from the Earth Mark 1 wain 45/- the Papal Encyclicalmittee has sq far engaged the services to shorten the sentences, and also to do cynicism based on bitter experiences of Reubcn, Reuben Peter de Vries 21/» of B. N. Bimberg for legal help and what we can for Christie and Carballo his own. It is probably in refuge from Festival Night C. pavese 21/- r r ’HE National Secular Society regrets advice and contributed towards the ex­ while they are in prison, this that he has become a Catholic. Jack ; says that his principal aim within the Essays in Aesthetics * that the first encyclical of Pope Paul penses of Niall MacDermot, Q.C., M.P., ,§o far it has been, mostly the same Jean-Paul Sartre J8/- to fly to Madrid as an observer and see few people who have, donated in the programme was to display himself as a Men and Work: Autobiography VI, while paying bp-service to Pope ■personality’. Whilst there may be some " what could be done for Christie, collections, but we need everyone’s help. Lord Citrine 40/- John’s liberal Pucem in 'Ferris, appears truth in this it is not th'e whole story,-' essentially to return to the Cold War So far £178 has been received from Please send donations to: Christie-Carballo Defence Committee, and is therefore cruel. I talked at some politics of ins old tutor, Axis sympathiser collections ^nd (donations at the various length about the programme to Stanley SECOND-HAND Pope Pius Xil. meetings, hut this has been used tip in 34, Cumberland Road, An Outline of Modern Knowledge (1931) advertising, organising demonstrations, Walthamstow, E.17. Hyland, the producer, and 1 am con--: it is extraordinary that, in putting vinced that' he and Muggeridge really 5/-; Gods of TomorrowWilliam Tecling nimself forward as an international 3/-; The March of a Nation (pro-Franco thought it desirable that the seven groups Spanish war) Harold G. Cardozo 4/-; mediator, the present pope should over- of young rebels (?) should be given a : Custine 4/-; Walden Two B. F. Skinner look church assets conservatively valued chance for free publicity. I believe that 1216; More Stories James T. Farrell 3/6; a: £5,0OOm. and 1600 years of political the entertainment aspect genuinely came Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley intrigue when ciatmjng ihai the Vatican second, or no more than equal first,, {damaged) 3/.; We Aren’t So Dumb is 'utterly divorced from purely temporal and that the same could be said for thei| Christopher Hollis 3/-; Class Houses and Anti-Election Literature interests and strictly political forms’ M uggeridge-mongering which Jack so, Modern War (1938) Jonathan Griffin 3/-; Even his call for Christian and theist ~ ’-ANTl-LLECTiON NEWS Hangers on at your Local Polling Evolution and the War (191$) P. Chal­ strongly oibjects to/ unity contrives to have not so much The rcyised edition of the "Hazards Station.” These cost 3d. each. That the programme was less ’favour­ mers Mitchell 3/-; It May Never Happen devout as political overtones. However V. S. Pritcheu 4/-; What Farrar Saw of Voting” leaflet is now ready, together Other posters are:— "Election, All for able to the anarchist case than it might .James Hanley 3/-; A Handbook of the sincere and well-intentioned Pope Paul with a new printed leaflet, “Why Vote? a X, Empty Promises, Worn Out Ideas, have been is, entirely due. to. the made- >; History of Philosophy ErnestBelfort) may be personally, the world will look It gets you Nowhere,” Pie in the Sky, But nothing Changes for quacies of the anarchists on the panel, “ Bax 4/-; An Introduction to the Psycho­ to Malta, Sicily, Spain, Portugal, Aus­ "Hazards of Voting” Leaflet” You.” These are 3d* each. since from the BBC itself- .we received logy of Religion R. H.Thouless 5/-; tralia, Ceylon and l-aiin America to sec 2/6d. per 100. "Being led to the Slaughterhouse, an nothing but help and consideration. The the real results of ‘mediation’ by the “Why Vote? etc.” leaflet 2/9d. per 100 X on the Ballot Paper is a ? on some Stuart Christie censorship, which I was Catholic Church. "Anarchist Alternative” leaflet Battlefield.” assured was motivated by .concern for Freedom Bookshop The pope may be excused for his feai 2/d. per 100 "It Means Conscription for Youth. his welfare and his- request that his ap- of atheism, which liberates men and Both slickers, “Politics Out! Anarchism Choosing Masters for All. It means a pearance should ,be 'cut, deprived the (Open 2 pan.—5 JO pan. daily; women from supernatural fears and In!” and "Politic* Equals War I arc 11 tun.—1 pan. 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A t the 37th Sessionjof the Economic “War Resistance ", the magazine of the and Social Council mating of United W.R.I. quotes C. P. Snow as saying, Nations in Geneva >| was decided to “When you think of the long and gloomy designate 1968 as the International Year history of man, you will find more for Human Rights. . - 4®? hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever A n appeal was made|for financial help been committed in the name of rebel­ for the family of Anthony Allen lion”. It goes on to review the experi­ who was hanged on August 13th. The ments of Stanley Milgram (now of Har­ treasurer is Miss R0S6^Vere, c/o The September 12 1964 Vol 25 No. 28 vard) to study man’s destructive obed­ Campaign for the Abolition of Capital ience in laboratory conditions. The Punishment, 1 Brunsw|:k Square, Bristol experiment consisted of ordering ‘naive 1. Five victims who were convicted on subjects’ to administer increasingly more the evidence of former Detective- severe electric shocks to a victim. The Sergeant Challenor are to claim dam­ ages from the Commissioner of the victim was a confederate and the shocks THE CHRISTIE TERROR TRIAL Metropolitan Police. Mr. Lionel King were simulated, but the experimenter who received a free pardon after wrong­ found that 26 out of 40 would press Continued from page I out terror raids in Cuba? Did not ful conviction by Challenor has not yet the button giving a ‘shock’ of 450 volts. is in time of war” and we cannot Khruschev suppress the Hungarian received any compensation. The enquiry All 40 pressed the button for an “inten­ but reply except by asking: Was uprising? . . . and in none of these into the responsibility for the continued of nuclear missiles. Mr. Tsarapkin, the sive shock’ Stanley Milgram concludes. Britain at war with the Arabs in “incidents” was anybody officially employment of Del.-Sergeant Challinor Soviet delegate said, “Conditions are not ”Gas chambers were built, death camps Palestine when they terror-bombed will take place in public. A Cambridge yet ripe for the creation of such a were guarded, daily quotas of corpses at war with anybody else! So let’s were produced with the same efficiency defenceless villages? Or with India not be afraid to declare that hun­ policeman was found not guilty of working-group, but they had not given assault, and causing actual bodily harm up hope that the time would come.” At as the manufacture of appliances. These at Amritsar, or with Egypt in 1956? dreds of thousands, perhaps millions inhuman policies may have originated or in Kenya when they engaged His Superintendant said: “He is one of the T.U.C. conference a motion con­ of Spaniards in exile and within demning Polaris bases was withdrawn in the mind of a single person, but they in public hangings, concentration those officers who is completely dedicated Spain itself feel “at war” with the to his job, perhaps a bit uncompromising. from the agenda for the sake of a more could only be carried out on a massive camps and torture against the very Franco regime, and that we are not but nevertheless a dedicated policeman.” harmonious conference in an election scale if a very large number of persons people they now “recognise”? Was surprised if against a regime which A Grand Jury in New York cleared year.. A man was found guilty in Mid­ obeyed orders. Obedience is the psy­ chological mechanism that links indivi­ France at war with Algeria when denies elementary freedoms to the Thomas Gilligan, a policeman, of any dlesbrough of being in possession of an they gave their “paras” free rein to people, terrorism should be among criminal liability in the fatal shooting offensive weapon, a bow, and discharg­ dual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men torture and kill their political in July of James Powell (15), a negro ing an arrow in the street. He was fined the methods used to combat it, and to systems of authority. Facts of recent enemies? Did not de Gaulle come The boy’s death touched off a series of £7 with £1 costs. . . . that compared with the examples we history and observation in daily life to power with the support of the have given, in all of which govern­ Harlem riots. . . . suggest that for many persons obedience very people who, once he was in T he British in conjunction with the ments used terrorism to impose their French, are, it is stated, working on a may be a deeply ingrained behaviour power and abandoned them, directed power on nations struggling to free Two members of the", Ku Klux Klan tendency, indeed a preponent impulse were found not guilty ^pf the murder of missile that uses television to track its their plastiques against him? Did not themselves, the purpose of anti- target. The Americans have doubled over-riding in ethics, sympathy and the Kennedy government finance and Lieut.-Colonel Lemuel- Penn, a negro moral conduct”. Franco terrorism has always been reserve officer. The ] Georgia jury was the range of one of their long-range equip the Florida-Cubans to carry to free the country from dictatorship. all-white. The sisted of one of the ballistic missiles. . . . Jon Q uixote accused said: “When'God is on your A Mass of Contradictions side men cannot harm you.” The ac­ cused will remain in custody charged (^HRISTIE’S guilt or innocence to age on his arm and when Blanco ap­ under Federal law with violating Colonel the charges on which he has proached him he told the Spaniard: “1 Penn’s civil rights'; am a German. “He responded, ‘Then CHRISTIE-CARBALLO DEFENCE been found guilty should not be a you are my man’, but just then the D ennis H iggs , a university lecturer, was moral issue, for anarchists, nor, for police grabbed us,” Christie said. returned by South Africa to Northern that matter, all that generation which The Guardian version is that Rhodesia froth wherei'he had been kid­ ACTION IN BRISTOL & GLASGOW seizes every opportunity to reiterate napped. The South African government Christie on arrival in Madrid went Continued from page 2 a collection on the city centre around that the struggle of 1936-39 in Spain to the claim that whilst they' knew nothing of the kidnapping, Mr.) Higgs was wanted A letter has been sent to the Embassy a large placard asking for £1,000 for is perhaps the most significant event American Express office to ask for a lawyer. The police Were more co­ in their lives. If we return to the mail. As a letter was handed to him, for questioning about a bomb explosion by the Chelsea Branch of the Amal­ in Johannesburg. However, they did not gamated Society of Woodworkers, pro­ operative but took names and addresses Christie case it is because in spite police closed in and arrested him . . . testing over the nature of the trial, the for illegal collecting. Representatives Carballo, a carpenter, said he went to apply for extradition and Mr- Higgs of the confessions, and Mr. Me long sentences imposed and calling for have attended D.A.T.A., E.T.U., C.N.D a rendezvous in the Rosales district of flew to London. South African extrem­ Dermott’s statement that Christie ists have threatened murder the next the immediate release of both Christie and Y.C.L. meetings, resolutions have had told him that he had made his Madrid given him from Paris but police and Carballo. been passed and all together about £18 swooped and arrested him at once. time they abduct arffi suspect from ad­ confession freely, the “evidence” as joining territory. It | claimed that there London has not had the monopoly collected. reported, leaves us unconvinced, and According to the Standard report l ^ ^ ^ l ^ T ^ ^ r J jffijlar cases this of protest activity. A comrade from “These activities were reported quite to accept Christie's guilt, without Christie, said Bristol writes: ' “A Committee'for~the widely in the local press, even mention­ question as does the guest diarist, the police and helped in the capture Release of Stuart Christie was formed ing the appeal for cash and giving the in last week’s New Statesman, of Carballo”. A psychiatrist claimed at a conference here when the news first came through. treasurer’s address'.” Apart from the mass of contra­ that a man who ' had committed the Two comrades picketed the Vice-Con­ In Glasgow last Friday comrades is to take for granted what we murder of two children died of “con­ sulate on the Tues. 18th and a picket of picketed the consulate with placards. are not prepared to take for dictions between reports, which in the circumstances, is in itself strange, science” in prison after cconfessing to 10 people took place on the following Signatures were also obtained from granted and which if Christie had the psychiatrist. Another psychiatrist Saturday. An ad hoc committee was passers-by for a petition which has been been arrested in Russia or any Iron since one assumes the Press re­ porters at the trial in view of the explained Mr. Krushchev’s anger at the set up pending a delegate committee. sent to Home, Wilson and Grimond. Curtain country neither the Press U2 incident by the fact that when Mr. Letters have been sent to various organ­ language difficulties probably relied “Last Saturday (29th) we held a poster nor anybody else would have Krushchev was a boy, his mother had parade and were' to have a meeting at isations asking for their support. on an official, or Agency report of accepted without very serious reser­ killed, by flinging jt against a wall, a the city centre, but the police were awk­ P.T. procedings, there are the contra­ vations. (For example the case of cat which she had caught licking up ward, and the non-anarchist majority M.C. dictions within each report, which the business man, Mr. Wynne whose some milk. Soviet''territory—in Mr. K’s of the committee members present agreed make it virtually impossible to eyes represented [orvso says the Evening “story” is currently being published to desist rather than lose the respectable APPEALS FOR CLEMENCY follow what is alleged to have Standard] the material bosom “from co-operative image so far gained. On in the Sunday Telegraph. Mr. happened. which milk was being stolen". . . the Sunday appeals for money were The address of the Spanish ambassador Wynne “confessed” at the time of It may be recalled that at the time sent to known left-wingers, councillors, is:— his trial yet presumably the purpose of Christie’s arrest, Franco’s direc­ T he Soviet U nion formally announced etc., and a successful meeting and 24, Belgrave Square, London, W.l. of the S.T. articles is to prove that at Geneva that it opposed for the present torate of security made two state­ collection was held on the Downs The Secretary of State for Foreign be was innocent). the creation of a special disarmament ments (1) that he was arrested in Then we heard the trial was imminent, Affairs is at The Foreign Office, White­ Because it has proved impossible working party to study the elimination and Monday night several of us took hall, S.W.1. Madrid after a tip-off from Spanish to secure the transcript of the trial secret agents operating in Britain (and if one cannot, by law, appeal against the verdict, it follows that (2) that in investigating the activities of Spanish terrorist elements in there is no point in a transcript being place the bomb near the cars of General foreign countries they discovered Obviously one cannot exclude the believe that he would be taking available to the victim), we are possibility that Christie was involv­ Francos escort. He said that every time “orders” from outside; and the idea obliged to rely on the press reports. “that they were planning a campaign he got such orders he always pretended of violence in Madrid . . . following ed in something; equally that he was that he would wait for them to tell According to the Evening Standard to have obeyed them—but explained to him when to put a bomb under these investigations it was found the dupe of an agent-provocateur, ; (Sept 1), Christie told the C o u rt. the alleged anarchists the fact that no Franco’s seat is too comical to be that a highly suspicious foreigner and last but not least, that he was explosions took place by saying he was that the victim of a frame-up. The haste taken seriously except in Spain. It he had come to Spain at the request (Christie) had entered the national not sufficiently skilled in fixing the mech­ with which the trial was staged made anism of the bombs. “I deceived them," is furthermore very curious that of two Spanish exiles he met at a sum­ territory and hitch-hiked to Madrid. Carballo does not appear to have mer camp in Southern France. They He was constantly watched and was it impossible for any kind of defence he said.—Reuter. to be prepared with witnesses or If one bears in mind that it is named his “bosses” in France, nor gave him 350 new franca (about £26] but arrested by police in Madrid.” that he appears to have any asso­ “not in payment for bringing what I “sworn” statements to be produced. also claimed that Carballo is a mem­ If one attempts to link these two ciates to denounce in Madrid. And thought was propaganda against Franco statements in turn with the evidence It allowed the defence for instance ber of the CNT (the former anarcho- into Spain—just some money to help no opportunity to find out who, for syndicalist trade union in Spain) and enquiries have failed to discover any­ given to the Court none of the evi­ one who knows or has heard of me out on my holiday here." dence makes any sense at all! instance, Carballo really is. And not some American-style pro­ A more contradictory statement the trial itself lasted a few hours, fessional murderer, it is difficult to Carballo in anti-Franco circles. it would be difficult to concoct,and and bearing in mind the language more so if one accepts as a fact thatCut and Dried difficulties, involving the need to Franco the Protector! Christie did run attend the summer r'HRISTIE, we tire told made a translate the “evidence” from both camp in Southern France 1 sides, it must hav* all been nicely IF the whole trial was a frame-up ists from outside—real and imagin­ full confesion of his own free The Guardian report (Sept. 2) cut and dried, With abject con­ or a plant what interest, it will ary—are being used by the Franco will. He told the Court that “the stated that fessions from the prisoners. We ure he asked, had the Spanish author­ regime to resist the growing demands Police were marvellous. 1 have not Christie told the five-man Court he asked to believe I f f instance Car- ities. in staging the trial which has from all quarters—and possibly had planned a holiday in Spain since been denied anything and 1 have ballo’s alleged statement thut: received great publicity abroad, and above all from the emerging well- January. He had heard so many con­ been well treated”. He also is to-do professional and technical while in France M tiad been shown the kind of publicity which the flicting stories about the nation and "I alleged to have said that he “volun­ Spunith government would prefei classes—for a more liberal political just wanted to see for myself. tarily co-operated with the police how to manipulate explosives by people set-up. It seems obvious to us that who, he claimed, belpuged to an anar­ not to have. With an introduction from a family and helped in the capture of Car- this will take place in the not too friend in Britain, he said, he met two chist organisation. We believe that the government ballo”. If everything between him­ and the S:curity forces have an in­ distant future in spite of Franco and men in Paris, one of whom was named self and the Spanish police had been said he fetumed to Spain, his personal circle of powerful inter­ Germing] Gracia, who gave him 350 terest in Spain to keep alive the idea so marvellous, why was it that he people set*1 Win money and ests. But after 25 years, not of I francs in return for his help in taking They ordpiod him to place that the "enemies of Spain” are con­ a parcel to Spain for them. was interrogated by them after arrest tinually plotting acts of violence to “Peace” as he claims but of dicta- 1 for five or six days? Cun one ;e charge i" the presidential torial power, no one wants to give it I Christie is quoted by the Evening Santiago Berubeu stadium in upset the peace, and that only by Standard report as saying imagine the Spanish police (now or r; mb football cup final this continued vigilance and a regime up least of all a vain old man, and 1 “that ho had been instructed to cocn- ever in the past, even in pre-Franco ien General Franco was in the such as Franco’s can protect the he will resist to the end, even if he I tact Blanco when he reached Madrid and days) being able not to ill-treat a “people” from these threats and has to organise “terrorist outrages I that they were to identify each other by political arrested on suspicion of outrages. In other words the terror­ from outside” himself! I pre-arranged signals. He wore a band­ terrorism? 4 FREEDOM night. The whole situation is rather precarious, especially as the employer has obtained an injunction for six days. ANARCHIST FEDERATION Some of the unions involved are OF BRITAIN English-based and the strike pay is very, small. If the building workers are to be Co-ordinating Secretary: Tom Jackson, 10 Gilbert Place. London, W.C.1. Dublin Building Workers ‘Out Solid’used as the spearhead for a 40-hour Building workers here in Dublin have ment, which means a tough fight. This Outside Dublin/Wuilding workers afe week in Ireland, then there is no earthly been on strike now for over three weeks, dispute must be viewed in the light of a restless. Building workers from Dublin reason why they cannot be on full pay. LONDON FEDERATION making a stand for the 40-hour week. 6-7% national unemployment figure, have taken jobs in Cork to ease the The Government is backing the building A victory in this dispute would be a therefore it can be said that the lads who situation. When the building employers employers, therefore if organised work­ OF ANARCHISTS spearhead for the rest of industry. are sticking it out under these conditions realised this, they slapped on an over­ ers back the building workers, victory Secretary: Arthur Uloth, c/o 17a Max­ is assured. If the, stand is not made The Federated Union of Employers are doing well. The employers’ position time ban in Cork. The building work­ well Road, London, S.W.6. now, it will be a hell of a time before are screaming to the Irish Congress of is hardening. The Joint Consulative ers there reacted by pressing for strike Trade Unions, that the building unions Committee of the Employers’ Organisa­ action, and the employers are helping it can be made again. Workers cannot are breaking the national wages agree­ tions is now supporting the Dublin to spread the strike themselves. afford to be in and out like yo-yo’s, London Anarchist Group building contractors. especially in the context of Irish condi­ ment which was signed seven months “Lamb and Flag”, Rost Street, Covent As in all disputes, working class tions. ago. The building unions politely point Though the strikers’ morale is high, Garden, W.C.2. (near Garrick and King out that they abstained from voting on humour comes to the top. A few days Although dockers have given some Streets: Leicester Square tube), 7.45 p.m. the big query is: Will there be a sell­ ago, a couple of plumbers were having this issue at the delegate conference of support by refusing to let unloaded out? At the moment their hours are a quiet evening drink in the “local” building materials, estimated to be worth SEPT 13 Arthur Uloth on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, and 42£ hours per week. The danger is a therefore are not “party*’ to it. The when they heard knocking and banging £750,000, be transported to firms in­ Subject to be announced compromise of say a reduction to 42 in the rear. After making enquiries volved in the strike, there isn’t, at the national wages agreement which was a hours this year and 40 hours by 1966. national recommendation by the joint about, the noise they were informed that moment, any sign of an end to the The few building workers I have man­ employers and Irish Congress, is that a reconstruction wafe; taking place. The strike. It is rumoured that the employ­ Notting Hill Anarchist Group aged to talk to say “40 hours now*’, lads immediately reported to the A.S.W. ers are prepared to stick it out until 12% increase should be paid to all work­ Secretary N.H.A.G., 5 Colville Houses, the snag is the Irish T.U.C. is involved strike committee, down came the officiarls Christmas. If this is thei case, and the ers. This was last January and some up to its neck, and may pressurise its London, W.lll workers are still not getting it. and stopped the job. Within 40 minutes 40-hour week isn’t gained very soon, constituent members to accept a com­ the employer signed up the 40-hour sympathy action must be taken by other In a statement issued by the building promise. As was stated earlier, the agreement. At one particular firm it organised workers in Ireland to back employers, they really hit the nail on the building employers see this dispute on looked as if pickets would have to be the building operatives, for this fight REGIONAL FEDERATIONS head when they said that they view the a national basis and are prepared to mounted on a 24 hour basis, as the em­ today will be their fight tomorrow. AND GROUPS dispute, not as one within the building fight to the death. ployer was taking in supplies during the Bill C hristopher . industry alone, but as one with impli- Birmingham Group cations for every other industry. Peter Neville, Regarding the actual strike itself, one [Our correspondent is confusing the 12 South Grove, Erdington, Birming­ Rom Types P ham, 23. could say that it is 95% effective even + LETTERS )f issues. Unwanted pregnancies is a to the extent of picketing building sup­ Dear Editor . question of education, and the possession Bristol Federation pliers. It is estimated, according to the The trouble with replying to Mr. of contraceptives, and as we have pointed Irregular meetings—enquiries to press, that their sales are being cut by Crump's letter (Freedom , 8th August) is out, anarchists have been among the c/o Martin Howells, 7 Richmond Dale, half. know from experience what some of that should Freedom devote me more pioneers in this field. Clifton, Bristol 8. * * them can be like when they do get a What we are arguing is that the only Meets Sundays (weather and circum­ The strikers’ morale is high; they are precious space for a further letter, the little money and/or power. My soul libertarian approach to the problems of stances permitting), 3.30 p.m. on the confident of victory. The Central Strike issue will have dwindled to one of is scattered over; the battlefields of malnutrition is (a) full use of all the Downs (Blackboy Hill). Committee state that 354 building and Crump v. Hurne. It would be unlikely Dagenham, Basildon and Hemel Hemp­ allied contractors have agreed to operate that anyone else could remember the available means of food production by Dundee Group stead, and other new-rich-working-class the people (b) and the equitable distri­ the 40-hour week without loss of pay. points raised. Also, I want to avoid a areas! Contact Rod Cameron, these employers are not in their Federa­ bution of the natural w ealth, among- all 6 Westfield Place, Dundee. correspondence which keeps harping R. J. Hurne . tion. back to the original letter, stating that Wellington, N.Z., Aug. 18. the people of the world. These objec­ tives can only be achieved by revolu­ Edinburgh Group Getting down to cases, this dispute “what I meant was ...” and “I did not Enquiries to: Douglas Trueman, 13 is building workers versus the govern- in fact say ...” etc., etc. However, as tionary means; we have no faith in Northumberland Street, Edinburgh 3. briefly as possible, here goes. Birth Control governments putting them into practice. Meetings every Monday at Rob Hains- I may not know a great deal about The time may come when the world’s worth, 10 Jacacia Street, Edinburgh. anarchism—which I freely admit—but I population exceeds our abilities to pro­ and Population duce the food to feed it. In our opinion Glasgow Federation do, as far as I personally am concerned, Enquiries to Ronnie Alexander, c/o know something of people. If in fact, Dear Editor , such a situation will never be reached because long before that could happen Kennedy, 112 Glenkirk Drive, Glasgow, FREEDOM PRESS anarchy is awaiting the masses to turn I have followed, with great interest W.5. towards it, then I fear the wait will be recent controversy about birth-control mankind would have found a propei PUBLICATIONS something of a long one. Crump makes and malnutrition to v o u r paper. I feel balance between population and re­ Hayes and District no comment on my main point, i.e., this subject is so important and crucial sources. Today because of an economic Contact Mike Wakeman, SELECTIONS FROM ‘FREEDOM’ “Types”. He has used a lot of words for the future of humanity that it is system which is not geared to needs, 12 Hoppner Road, Hayes, Middlesex. Vol 2 1952: Postscript to Posterity to show how well read he is, yet offers difficult to remain silent when you there is a completely unreal approach to the problem. Today life equals the Manchester Group Vol 3 1953: Colonialism on Trial no remedy on how to make a born bully appear to be ^ndoning the R.C. atti- Meetings alternate Tuesdays. Details Vol 4 1954: Living on a Volcano *Tnto^a^ifdn-btilly. ^AndThisr Irepeal** possession ofmoney to buy -food; we from" Graham Leigh, 5, Mere Close, Vol 5 1955: The Immoral Moralists was my main point. Not only have we to consider the must aim at making people deeply con­ Sale, Cheshire. Vol 6 1956: Oil and Troubled Waters When Crump states that my (?) idea supply of an adequate diet for the ever- scious of the fact that food, not money, Vol 7 1957: Year One—Sputnik Era of a bourgeois anarchist seems daft, J increasing populations but other essential is the basis of all human life.— Editors ]. Merseyside Federation Vol 8 1958: Socialism in a Wheelchair needs such as clothing, Shelter, Health Meeting, Sunday September 13th at Vol 9 1959: Print, Press & Public heartily agree. I don’t even know whal Services, transport, etc., all which require Vincent Johnston’s, 43^ Millbank, Liver­ Vol 10 1960: The Tragedy of Africa a bourgeois anarchist is! It seems to pool 13, at 2.30 p.m. All interested are large supplies of raw materials and fuel. Vol 11 1961: The People in the Street be something Crump has invented. Per­ invited to attends Vol 12 1962: Pilkington v. Beeching haps he is not so well read after all if The minerals in the earth’s crust are not inexhaustible and to supply nuclear Tunbridge Wells Group Each volume: paper 7/6 cloth 10/6 he has gathered his knowledge as well PROPOSED GROUPS The paper edition of the Selections ia as he has read my letter. 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