PP/4/1/16/44 - [Letter, Max Nicholson to Jack Pritchard, 13/11/33]

PP/4/1/16/44

Item

[Letter, Max Nicholson to Jack Pritchard, 13/11/33]

1933

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Pritchard, Fleetwood
Gloag, John

Federal Program
New Britain (organization)
Technocrats (group)
CCF (organization : Canada)
Socialist League
British Association for the Advancement of Science

Nicholson, Max,
Pritchard, John Craven,recipient

Nicholson has "now had time thoroughly to digest" [Fleetwood Pritchard's?] and [John] Gloag's criticisms "[of [JAXPLAN?] and has modified his first impression, no longer feeling that "they have blown the document itself sky-high but only our tentative proposals for putting it out." He goes on to give his view on the mode of publication of the text and its distribution, stressing that it is "a document for technicians" and not "for general consumption". He advises against publishing in book form, preferring "say 2-500 [roneoed] copies in some light form of cover" sending specimen copies to "the Socialist League, Fed. Prog. Societies, New Britain, Technocrats, British Assn., PEP, Canadian C.C.F., and all other groups likely to be interested on both sides of the Atlantic inviting criticism". He believes that "If we don't get a good reaction from those people we wont [sic] get it from anyone." If reaction was favourable, it would make it possible to judge whether the document "or some modification or alternative should be published in more permanent form."