PP/4/1/16/46 - [Letter, Jack Pritchard to Max Nicholson, 16/11/33]

Reference code

PP/4/1/16/46

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Jack Pritchard to Max Nicholson, 16/11/33]

Date/s

1933

Quantity & Format

3 leaves Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832

Subject

Liberty
Germany
Italy

Creator

Pritchard, John Craven,

Creator

Nicholson, Max,

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Jack Pritchard writes that after his meeting with Nicholson on the previous evening he had "thought again about the Argument [section of 'A View on Planning?]". Describing previous developments in political and economic philosophy, such as those of John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham, as having had their effect and run their course, he is concerned that in "the new conception of the state, as shown in Germany and Italy.... is a real danger that robot states will be created, with the result that there will be an end of mass political freedom". Britain should "start real hard thinking and get on to a real, proper basis for future development on which we can give maximum freedom to the individual" and "on a more immediate point, I think we [JAXPLAN Group?] should stress that... individual freedom is nowhere near as complete as it should be in those small personal things that matter".

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/4 - Political and Economic Planning (PEP)
  - PP/4/1 - Political and Economic Planning (PEP). Correspondence
    - PP/4/1/16 - Political and Economic Planning (PEP). Correspondence. Max Nicholson
      - PP/4/1/16/46 - [Letter, Jack Pritchard to Max Nicholson, 16/11/33]

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