Morgan County News | 1941-12-26 | Page 9 | Bertrand Russell

bertrand Eer russell bertrand russell the philosopher was imprisoned during the world war after the world war began he took an active part in the adno no con movement and was fined as the author of a leaflet describing an early christian conscientious objector oi this led to his being deprived of his lectureship at tri trinity n ity college cambridge he was offered a post at harvard but was refused a passport he had intended to give a course of lectures afterward published in america as political ideals 1918 but was prevented by military authorities in 1918 1913 he be was sentenced to six months imprisonment for an article he had written in the tribunal