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Davis, J. Lionberger, January 22, 1947.
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SECURITY NATIONAL BANK SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY EIGHTH STREET BETWEEN OLIVE AND LOCUST. ST. LOUIS 1, MO.
J. LIONBERGER DAVIS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
January 22, 1947
Dr. Albert Einstein, Chairman, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, Inc., 90 Nassau Street Princeton, N.J.
Dear Dr. Einstein: I received this morning your letter of January 20, asking me for a contribution to the fund being raised to arouse understanding and insistence of the peoples of the World in dealing with atomic energy. On December 13, I sent a small contribution, and may send another after I have learned more about the organization and methods of your Committee. I have written one or two articles about the need for understanding and control of atomic energy from a social and political point of view, and I am sending to you copies of those articles which may interest you. I agree entirely with you and your associates that we are going to have One World or none, but I sometimes wonder if we have sufficient brains and character-sufficient survival value, if I may use that expression- to harness atomic energy for the good of the World and not just drift and eventually commit mass suicide. With all good wishes for the success of your work, I am Very cordially, J. Lionberger Davis