Letter from Linus Pauling to John Foster Dulles. June 7, 1954. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms, Inc. amount $8.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: All American Maintenance Company amount $30.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Allan Knight Chalmers amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Alumni Association, C. I. T. amount $4.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Apothecary Shop amount $11.64 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum (Caltech) amount $15.16 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Colby Nurseries amount $83.49 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Fashion Cleaners amount $10.96 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Johnny Oyakawa amount $98.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: McBride Animal Hospital amount $17.25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. amount $8.49 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Poppy Cleaners and Dyers amount $21.11 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Save the Redwoods League amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Souther Counties Gas Company amount $33.70 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Standard Oil Co. of California amount $8.19 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Tide Water Associated Oil Company amount $16.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Tuttle Brothers Nurseries amount $10.76 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Robert Dawson Agency amount $184.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Southern California Section of the A. C. S. amount $2.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Arthur Kallet, Director of the Consumers Union to Carl Niemann RE: Reply to letter of June 23, 1954; Consumers Union has decided to award Arthur Miller their fellowship and will mail a check when confirmation from Caltech comes through. [Niemann's letter June 23, 1954; Caltech response July 13, 1954] [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence Box #72.4]
• Letter from Keith J. Laidler to LP RE: Laidler would like to visit Gates and Crellin Laboratories during his upcoming trip West. [Reply Beatrice Wulf June 10, 1954] [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from LP to Detlev W. Bronk, President, National Academy of Science RE: Requesting help in the matter of LP's passport validation. [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Viktor F. Weisskopf, MIT RE: Informing Weisskopf of his problems with the Passport Division and requests any information Weisskopf may have about the operation of the Board of Passport Appeals [Filed under W: Individual Correspondence, Box #434.3]
• Letter from LP to James R. Murphy RE: Requesting Murphy serve as LP's attorney in the matter of attempting to obtain a passport for a trip to India (Dec. 54-March 55) [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]
• Letter from LP to Senator Wayne L. Morse RE: LP encloses two letters to the Secretary of State relating LP's attempts to obtain passports for a trip to India. [Morse's reply June 28, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]
• Letter from LP to the Secretary of State. [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]

  CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  PASADENA 4

  GATES AND CRELLIN LABORATORIES OF CHEMISTRY

  7 June 1954

  The Secretary of State

  Washington 25, D.C.

  Dear Sir:

  In my letters of 11 September 1953 and 16 November 1953 and later letters and telegrams I requested that my passport, No. 698609, be validated to permit my wife and me to make a trip to India and other countries. The passport was never validated for this purpose, and, when it was too late for me to fulfill my obligation of giving scientific talks in the countries, I withdrew the application. The circumstances are discussed in my letter of 5 June 1954 to you.

  My wife and I are now planning to make essentially the same trip, during the period approximately 1 December 1954 to 31 March 1955. I now accordingly request that my passport be validated for this purpose.

  I ask also that action be taken on this application without delay. Six months ago I was scheduled to be the principal speaker at the Indian Science Congress in Hyderabed, and my failure to arrive in India without doubt caused serious disarrangement of the progress of the Congress. I have been invited during three successive years by the Government of India and the Indian Science Congress Association to come to India. I think that it is likely that they will invite me again, but I feel that it is necessary to assure them that I shall be able to be present, and that there will not be a repetition of the interference with their plans that occurred last year.

  The proposed trip is purely for scientific purposes, as described in my letters of 11 September 1953 and 16 November 1953. The itinerary is not yet arranged, and may depend somewhat on invitations to deliver scientific lectures that I have not yet received. In addition to the countries mentioned in my letters of 11 September and 16 November 1953, I wish to have Turkey included. Professor F. Arndt, of the University of Istanbul, Turkey, has told me that the Government of Turkey and the University of Istanbul will probably invite me to give some lectures in this University.

  I shall be glad to provide any additional information that you may desire.

  On 29 December 1953, thirteen days after the scheduled date for my wife and me to leave New York on the trip to India and other countries,

  is early September. I am to address a meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education in Evanaton, Illinois, and shall be there from 7 to 10 September. I could come to Washington during the previous week of the following week, and thus save a significant amount of travel cost as compared with other times. I am also scheduled to address the American Chemical Society in New York on 5 November 1954, but I hope that the passport matter will have been settled before then

  I have kept in touch with Mr. Wirin, who some time ago recommended to me that I reapply for validation of my passport. Also, I have sent copies of my letters of 5 June and 7 June to the Secretary of State to Senator Wayne L. Morse, who took up the matter of the refusal of a passport to me in 1952 in two speeches before the Senate. I enclose a copy of my letter to Senator Morse, and also of my letter to Dr. Bronk, President of the National Academy of Sciences. You will note that I mentioned in these letters that you are my lawyer.

  I shall be in the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, from 20 June to 23 June, and in Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, from 24 to 26 June. My secretary in Pasadena may be able to tell you where I am at other times. I expect to be back in Pasadena by 6 July.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from Michael Straight. New Republic to LP RE: Encloses issue of New Republic with an editorial pertinent to LP [LP's reply July 20, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from Ralph W. Robertson to LP RE: Enclosing sketch of apparatus again, this time with written explanation of its purpose which has to do with converting sea water into fresh water. [LP's letter May 27, 1954; LP's reply June 15, 1954] [Filed under R: Correspondence 1954, Box #340.19]
• Memorandum from L.A. DuBridge to Robert B. Corey, cc: LP RE: The Committee on Government and Industrial Contracts has approved Corey’s application to the NSF for a grant for support of research on X-ray diffraction studies of crystalline proteins. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.1]
• Newspaper Clipping: "President Fails to Hold Power", Publication Unknown, June 7, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.8]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Scientists Call on Ike for Review", Los Angeles Daily News, June 7, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.9]
• Telegram from Beatrice J. Wulf, Executive Secretary to LP, to Garnet T. Page RE: States the scheduled time of LP's address. [Letter from Page to Wulf June 5, 1954] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.11]