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11. Watts, op. cit., p. 109.

12. Personal communication to author.

13. Peacock, op. cit., p. 88.

14. Quoted in Davies, op. cit., p. 131.

15. Mitrinovic once remarked that a psychoanalyst would say he was someone with a neurosis about constitutions.

16. Notes of one of Mitrinovié’s talks. New Atlantis Foundation archives.

17. Mitrinovié once remarked that Groddeck was the only European of his generation who could be understood by a Chinaman! According to Edwin Muir Mitrinovi¢ used to say of Bertrand Russell, “When he die, the angels they find nothing to eat on his bones.” Edwin Murr, op. cit., p. 245.

18. See Chapter 6 above.

19. The idea of an Atlantic Alliance had first been raised in the pages New Britain in 1933. By the spring of 1939 the New Europe Group was calling for an Atlantic Alliance of Britain, the British Commonwealth, the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union.

20. Letter to Ben Tillett, joint President of New Europe Group, in archives of New Atlantis Foundation.

21. Personal communication to author.

22. Personal communication to author.

23. Watts, op. cit., p. 109.

24. Personal communication to author.

25. Personal communication to author.

26. Purdom, op. cit., p. 267.

27. Thomson, op. cit., p. 14.

28. Davies, op. cit., p. 144.

29. Idem.

30. Ibid., p. 118.

31. D. T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, London: Rider, 1969, p. 69.

32. Idem.

33. Ibid., p. 68.

34. Personal communication to author. 35. Personal communication to author. 36. Personal communication to author.

Chapter 8

1. Mitrinovié observed to one of his companions that “living nature has been wounded.”

2. Letter dated April 21st 1946, New Atlantis Foundation archives.

3. Notes of W, G. Fraser, 1946. New Atlantis Foundation archives.