Dr. Albert Einstein 118 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey

Dear Dr. Einstein:

I have delayed for some time replying to your letter of April 29, soliciting funds for the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, for reasons that will appear in the course of this letter.

I have always been whole-heartedly in favor of the program of the Emergency Committee, and have considered its work to be of the utmost importance. **Handwritten at the top of the page: $5 donations in '46, '47 & early '47 I have several times made financial contributions, which, while small in absolute terms, were substantial in relation to my personal circumstances. However, not long before receiving your letter, I read an item in a local newspaper which was most disturbing to me, and has raised a serious question in my mind whether I wish to make any further contribution to your work. A copy of this news item is enclosed. Let me say at the outset that if the statement attributed to you is incorrect, misleading, or quoted out of context, a statement from you to that effect will clear up the matter, so far as I am concerned, and in that case you may ignore the remainder of this letter. However, I watched the newspaper very carefully for several days after the statement was printed, hoping to see some sort of explanation or denial, and did not see anything of the kind.

In the printed statement entitled "A policy for survival" issued by the Emergency Committee under date of April 12, 1948, it is stated that "This call to negotiation does not mean appeasement." As a matter of fact, I have not intepreted [sic] any statement of the Emergency Committee which has yet come to my attention as suggesting anything that could be called appeasment. However, there can be no doubt in the mind of anyone that Mr. Wallace stands for appeasement, and, in fact, complete subservience to Russia. He has expressed himself unequivocally in opposition to world government. In his testimony before the House Foreign Relations Committee in February, he advocated a partition of the entire world into Russian and American spheres of influence. In recent weeks he has repeatedly been quoted in the press as advocating unilateral disarmament. A few days after the publication of the enclosed item, an acquaintance of mine who is an ardent Wallace supporter asked me if I had seen it and if it meant that you had resigned from the National Advisory Board of United World Federalists. I mention this to show what the supporters as well as the antagonists of Mr. Wallace consider inconsistent with advocacy of world government.

Of course, you may say that in endorsing Mr. Wallace for President you were speaking as a private individual and not in any official capacity as Chairman of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists or as a member of the National Advisory Board of United World Federalists.