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* e . ae ia Z . "A 100-18112 Source a made available the contents of a letter in the sossession of RUTH BERLAU addressed “My Dear EX". There was no signature on shis letter, however, it is helieved fm ite contents te have been written auvvuwe sp 4855 weg #2 oF SV eee SSS Ss Se oe eo fever ' xy BERT BRECHT. The letter is undated but it is believed that it was writtea sometime subsequent to September, 1944 inasmuch as it makes reference to having WTH (RUTH BERIAU) do some photo;raphic copy work, This letter reads in part as follawa: "T really would need your assistance, It is that J an trying my best on a didactical poem in the style of LUCRETIUS ' "DE RERUL NaTURA", dealing with something like the unnaturalness of conditions and relations in the bourceoia classes. The essential part of it will be the MANIFEST, whicii I am giving in the second ana third cantos. The first canto will deal with tne difficulties one finds trying to find oneself at home in tne nature of our society. The last canto will show the terriblo barbarism in its hideous growth. I arn forwarding to you the second conte, Which was the first I wrote, containing the first half of the Manifest. The third chapter of the Manifest, in which I criticize the present day socialistic literature, will be dealt with, cursorily, in my first canto. On behalf of the third canto {second chapter of the Mauifest) I am trying to work up the English text in catechism form; I would like to have for it your ESSUNTLAL or PRIHCIPsL POINTS too. (if you would send these to me, RUTH will guarantec that you get them back quickir, even in a few days, as sne will make a photographic copy)......Som parts of the Manifest I have chan ed a littis, as careful as I could; I have the theory about VORDLOLDUG (translator's notc: the t.cory that of a necessity the cupitalistic society must bring with itself a downward trend of wages till the border of even below the border of starvation) replaced with fConstitutionally conditioned joblessness*,etc. - you thick I was right in doing that? I think I was right in kvoping os strict as possible to the text of the classical writcrs (translator's notes moaning MARX, ENGELS, the Communist ‘lanifest, vctc.) but it might be botter to choose some frcoodom of expression in wording it. I tnink that tho Song is geadable onouch for public hearing, VEIGSL und EKORTAGR (no doubt one an KORTE) arc convinced of this.....eHow I am starting on the second part of tho Manifest, This hes the quizzos &s put by the classical authors (MARX, otc.). Could I smeggle in some now | quostions and answors, and,if so, what qucstions? It might be uscful to add somo sketchus (in tno spirit of the one I send you about ‘boing without a job"), if so what subjects for skotchcs or skitseeee.” Source & advised that RUTH BSRIAU was in possossion of a shest "1 4 aur ane me certsiu notes #hea a fin if Papor containing corwin tcs undor the date Ostobor 25, 1944. -b=