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Apt. 210, 2505 13th St., N.W. Washington 9, D.C.

June 17th, 1948

Dr. Albert Einstein and Fellow Citizens of the World:

I want, first of all, to express to Dr. Albert Einstein a sense of deep appreciation, which no doubt most of us feel, for his voluntary assumption of leadership of United World Federalists and the World Government movement. I also want to thank the Soviet scientists who addressed the open letter to Dr. Einstein through the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

I greatly admire Dr. Einstein for functioning so magnifi-cently both as scientist and as citizen, and I wish that every citizen of the world, and especially of this country, would make heroic effort to express himself directly to his leaders, even if it is only to say: "Thank you, Mr. President, for the Civil Rights Report, and thanks for immediate recognition of Palestine in spite of the pressure of Wall Street and our few gargantuan oil companies." We should be just a sure to say: "Booo!" to the senators and represent-atives who betrayed us with removal of price controls an that we shall surely remove them from office for reducing the value of our veterans' and war workers' federal savings bonds to perhaps as little as forty cents on the dollar invested -- just to please the politico-economic tyrants, the 5%, of our people who by such acts demonstrate eloquently how they completely control our entire national wealth.

Of course, except through publications, the people's voice means nothing where our lying pretense of democracy tends to perpetu-ate the power of political machines in such regions as the District