September 17, 1963 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Check from AHP to Roess Market RE: $50.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP September 24, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Check from LP to Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith RE: $14,000.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP September 24, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Check from LP to the California Institute of Technology RE: $5.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP October 22, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Letter from G. Burke Johnston, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, to LP RE: Invites him to participate in a series of lectures. [Letter from LP to Johnston September 30, 1963] [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder 1964s.12]

Letter from John Raeburn Green, Green, Hennings, Henry, Evans & Arnold, Attorneys at Law, to LP RE: Discusses Green’s September 17, 1963 letter to Schaefer and information regarding sales of LP’s textbooks. [Letter from Green to Schaefer, September 17, 1963, Letter from LP to Green, October 8, 1963] [LP Biographical: Legal: Pauling v. Globe-Democrat Publishing Company, 1960-1967: Box #3.003, Folder #3.5]

Letter from John Raeburn Green, Green, Hennings, Henry, Evans & Arnold, Attorneys at Law, to Stanley Schaefer, President, W. H. Freeman & Company, cc. LP, RE: Requests information regarding sales of LP’s books at six colleges after 1960-61. [Letter from Green to LP, September 17, 1963, Letter from Schaefer to Green, September 25, 1963] [LP Biographical: Legal: Pauling v. Globe-Democrat Publishing Company, 1960-1967: Box #3.003, Folder #3.5]

Letter from LP to Arturo Mor Roig RE: LP is enclosing a copy of a letter he sent to President-elect Dr. Arturo Illia concerning the imprisonment of fifty women working for the cause of world peace. LP hopes that Roig can take what action he can to rectify the situation. LP asks that Roig send him an update on the present situation with these women. [Filed under LP Peace: Issues of International Diplomacy and Human Rights, Af-Co: Box #6.013, Folder #13.2]

Letter from LP to Dr. Arturo Illia. [Filed under LP Peace: Issues of International Diplomacy and Human Rights, Af-Co: Box #6.013, Folder #13.2]

17 September 1963

Dr. Arturo U. Illia

Hotel Savoy

Buenos Aires

Argentina

Dear President Illia:

I remember with great pleasure and satisfaction your conversation with me on the afternoon of Friday 22 August, about the great problem of preventing a devastating war and preserving peace in the world, and the contributions that the Republic of Argentina might make. I thank you again for your courtesy in having received me.

I am now writing to you about a different but closely related matter.

During the visit that my wife and I made to Buenos Aires, we talked not only with you and other members of the government, but also with many other men and women who are working for peace in the world. My wife and I have now learned that many of the women workers for peace with whom we talked have been arrested by the government and are now confined in prison.

We have heard that Margarita de Ponce, Aura Fleita, Fanny Edelman, Celyca Capra, Delia Etcheverry, Maria Morano, Noemi Harrington, Nina Borzone, and more that forty other women were arrested and imprisoned on Sunday 8 September 1963, in the city of Rosario.

I find it shocking that the Republic of Argentina should have taken this action. I have been hoping that, after a period during which authorities of the Republic of Argentina suppressed the rights of individual human beings and carried out oppressive actions, your nation would take its place among the civilized nations of the world, would recognize the rights of individual human beings, and would abandon the dictatorial and oppressive policies that are characteristic of governments in the backward nations.

I know that you have not yet been inaugurated as the President of the Republic of Argentina, although you have been elected.

I appeal to you, however, to take immediate action, to repudiate this dictatorial and oppressive deed of the government authorities of Argentina, and to achieve the liberation from prison of these women, whose “crime” is that they are deeply concerned about the immorality of the war and the immorality of the economic exploitation, and who hope that the world can be changed in such a way as to decrease the amount of human suffering.

Again, I appeal to you for action, and I express the hope that your government will be a civilized government, based upon justice, and not a government of terror and oppression of individual human beings.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:hpg

Letter from M.S. Arnoni to LP RE: Encloses a copy of a letter from Mr. Schoenman and proofs of LP’s article. Discusses the reprinting of this article.[Letter from LP to Arnoni, September 27, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M.S. Arnoni), #6.15]

Letter from M.S. Arnoni to Mr. Ralph Schoenman, RE: With respect to LP’s article, that is to be a art of the anthology in honor of Bertrand Russell. Asks permission formally, to reprint the article and make reference to the upcoming anthology. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M.S. Arnoni), #6.15]

Note from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc to LP RE: Confirm that they opened orders for LP’s account. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.058, Folder #58.1]

Statement from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc to LP RE: Total of $14,038.64. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.058, Folder #58.1]

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