As a footnote to a previous item in the Week we reproduce a press statement issued by Bertrand Russell on September 2nd:
"The Prime Minister has refused to meet a delegation of well-known public figures to argue against the destruction of the dams in North Vietnam. In a letter to me today from 10, Downing Street, it is stated baldly that Mr. Wilson "regrets that he is unable to receive your delegation" No explanation is given, which leaves one to assume that the Prime Minister realises he would be unable to defend a policy which led to mass starvation and possibly widespread death by drowning. It is important for people in the West to realise that the threat of these war crimes hangs daily over the heads of the Vietnamese people,"