Guardian, March 29, 1965. p.8

‘Women Talking’, Jean Stead

Interview with and profile of JB:

‘I was as impressed by JB in person as I was by his books. But I gave him a little of the de Beauvoir treatment before I left – Negroes were not the only downtrodden ones…and he freely acknowledged women as among the underlings of the world…What seemed to get him down in this country was that no one would admit to racial prejudice when it was so obviously there. Things are harder to fight. “No one will talk about it”, he said sadly. I cannot think of anyone off-hand who would sit down with a Negro and talk about the peculiar emotions difference in colour arouses’.