Letter from Linus Pauling to Elliot Evans. August 23, 1967. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Letter form LP to John Minkler RE: Informs him that he will be unable to accept the invitation to speak at the Vietnam Summer Project as requested August 6, 1967. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 260 Folder 260.3]
• Letter from Florence K. Givens, secretary to LP, to Zubin Khory RE: Answers her letter of August 4, 1967 by thanking her for the letter but mentioning her bemusement at LP's name being in Pen Pal magazine. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 203 Folder 203.1]
• Letter from LP [Signed by F.K.G.] to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family: Box 5.044, Folder 44.9]

  August 23, 1967

  Dear Peter:

  We are looking forward to seeing you in October. Our schedule is complicated by our decision to go to Warsaw for the Centenary celebration of the birth of Marie Sklodowska-Curie, and I am writing to ask if you would approve the following proposal.

  We expect to arrive in London at 6:40 AM on Sunday 15 October, on BOAC Flight 600, which leaves Toronto at 7:00 PM Saturday l4 October. Then we are scheduled to catch the Polish Airlines Flight 246 for Warsaw, leaving at 12:45 PM on Sunday October 15. This gives us only six hours in London, with a good bit of the time required for the airport and for transportation to town. Could you rent a car, pick us up at the airport at about 7:30 AM on Sunday, and then return us to the airport at noon? This would give us a chance to see you and Julia and the children, although only for a short time.

  Then, would it be possible for you to arrange to come to Montpellier for a few days, to stay with us? We shall arrive in Montpellier on Sunday 22 October and leave on 10 or 11 November, flying directly to California. We are going to be staying in the Zuckerkandl's apartment, and they have told us that there would be room for you, too. The Zuckerkandls themselves will be staying in another place.

  There is the possibility that our schedule can be rearranged somewhat, but we are obligated to stay in Montpellier during this period of three weeks, and the Marie Curie celebration will take up the extra time that we thought we would have on this trip.

  Today I am going down to La Jolla, to look for a house or apartment for us during the next nine months. Mamma is staying in Santa Barbara, in order to do some packing and get other jobs done.

  We look forward very much to seeing you.

  Love from,

  Daddy

  LP:fkg

• Letter from LP [signed by F.K.G.] to D. Hunka, Organizing Secretary, RE: Informs of his and AHP's arrival at the Montreal airport at 1:28 PM on October 7 and sending the manuscript a couple of weeks before the lecture. [Filed under LP Speeches: Box 1967s3, Folder 1967s3.5]
• Letter from LP to A. N. Bourns, Professor at McMaster University, RE: Informs Bourns about his travel plans. [Filed under LP Speeches: Box 1967s3, Folder 1967s3.7]
• Letter from LP to A. Rahman, CSIR, RE: Informs him that he will be unable to prepare an article for Lok Udyog as requested in letter dated August 2, 1967. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 343 Folder 343.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Alfred Knudson, State University of New York, RE: Writes to say he cannot speak at the University as requested August 16, 1967. Asks Dr. Knudson if he read about the peace march in Los Angeles recently. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 199 Folder 199.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Andrew A. Recsei, The Recsei Laboratories, RE: Thanks him for the book on vitamin C, the copy of a Description of a Method of Determination of Ascorbic Acid and a sample of dye. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 328 Folder 328.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Jose Harari RE: Sends a copy of his foreword for Dr. Harari's book as requested August 11, 1967. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 170 Folder 170.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Jose Harari RE: Sends a copy of his foreword for the second spanish edition of Dr. Harari's book. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 170 Folder 170.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Oleg Jardetzsky, Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories, RE: Sends him a photograph and autograph as requested August 14, 1967. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 188 Folder 188.3]
• Letter from LP to Elfriede Yost, RE: Thanks Yost for the pages from Ruhrbild about the Pacem in Terris II Convocation in Geneva. Writes his opinion of the convocation. Sends an update of his new job in San Diego. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 5.055, Folder 55.1]
• Letter from LP to Elliot Evans. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 113 Folder 113.8]

  August 23, 1967

  Mr. Elliot Evans

  9601 Wilshire Boulevard

  Beverly Hills, California 90210

  Dear Mr. Evans:

  I thank you for your letter, in which you mention the statements that I made on radio station KLAC.

  I do not know whether you misunderstood or whether I was careless in formulating my thoughts. I remember, of course, the bombing or London from the air by Germany during World War I, and also the buzz-bomb and aerial attacks by Germany during World War II, and attacks such as that on Rotterdam. The point that I was trying to make is that the United States and Great Britain decided, during World War II, to try to bring the war with Germany to an end by the very heavy bombing of German cities, rather than primarily of military targets.

  On page 18 of his book Fear, War, and the Bomb, P. M. S. Blackett quotes the principal Assistant Secretary of the Air Ministry of Britain in his book Bombing Vindicated as claiming the credit to Great Britain for introducing as a main strategic policy the area attack on cities. "It has been the British way of using air power which has revolutionized war."

  During the period August 1940 to May 1941 British bombers dropped 20,000 tons of bombs on Germany, killing about 0.15 persons per ton of bombs, and with unmeasurably small effect on German production. The German reply started in September 1940 and continued until May 1941. Fifty thousand tons of bombs were dropped on Great Britain, killing 40,00C citizens, 0.8 per ton. During 1944 and 1945 the British and American aerial bombing of Germany was at the average rate of 100,000 tons a month.

  During five months beginning in March 1945, about 100,000 tons of bombs were dropped on cities in Japan, and about 60,000 tons on specific military and industrial targets. The 100,000 tons dropped on ci.1ies destroyed about three million houses. The death rate in Japan from the bombing of cities was about 1.3 per ton.

  I suppose that we can say that there was a gradual development of the idea of area bombing of cities. Probably the credit for adopting this as a principal policy is to be given to Great Britain.

  Sincerely,

  Linus Pauling

  LP: fkg

• Letter from LP to Harry Nelson, Medical Editor of the Los Angeles Times, RE: Suggests that he write to Dr. Louis J. West at the University of Oklahoma to acquire the information he requested in his letter dated August 10, 1967. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 447 Folder 447.2]
• Letter from LP to Leslie G. Fishbone, The California Tech, RE: Sends his regrets that he will be unable to write something concerning Dr. Teller's statements for The California Tech as requested July 31, 1967. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 130 Folder 130.1]
• Letter from LP to Lorraine Escobar RE: Adds to his letter of August 15, 1967 by informing her that one of the quotes she used in her argument of July 30, 1967 from Professor Hugo Theorell has little value as he has come out in favor of fluoridation and its positive affects on dental cavities. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 113 Folder 113.8]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Larry Bliss, Associated Students University of California, RE: Sends his regrets that he will be unable to speak to the Associated Students of the University of California. [Response to letter August 11, 1967] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 42 Folder 42.1]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. W. R. Evans, RE: Replies with thanks and understands how Mrs. Evans would like to keep the olla. Expresses hope that she and Mr. Evans will visit him and AHP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Legal Issues: Box 3.026, Folder 26.6]
• Letter from LP to Professor Edmond I. Eger, University of California, RE: Thanks him for the manuscript on Anesthetic Effect of the Combination of Xenon and Halothane sent August 9, 1967. Informs him of some problems he sees with his results, grammar and the paper as a whole. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 113 Folder 113.8]
• Letter from LP to Professor Hugo Theorell, Medicinska Nobelinstitutet in Stockholm, Sweden, RE: Expresses the level of fluoridation that should be in drinking water. Informs that AHP and LP will not be going to Tokyo. [Filed under LP Science: Box 10.006, Folder 6.4]
• Letter from LP to Professor Richard S. Cramer, San Jose State College, RE: Answers some questions about himself posed by Cramer August 9, 1967 including his history at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and the papers he published. Sends some of his papers under separate cover. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 78 Folder 78.2]
• Letter from LP to R. Daudel, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, RE: Thanks him for his letter of August 2, 1967 . Accepts the offered membership in the Academy "with pleasure". Explains that he has done some work in quantum theory but is now focused on nuclear structure and molecular medicine. Gives new address as he has been hired as a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California. Informs Daudel that he will be traveling to France in October. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 89 Folder 89.6]
• Letter from LP to Sir Harold Hartley Central Electricity Generating Board RE: Thanks him for sending a reprint of Hartley's discussion on the Debye theory [sent on July 20, 1967]. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 90 Folder 90.1]
• Letter from LP to Sir Harold Hartley, Central Electricity Generating Board, RE: Thanks him for the reprint on the Debye Theory. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 170 Folder 170.1]
• Letter from LP to Steven Black RE: Thanks him for his letter sent August 8, 1967 and sends him a copy of the Nobel Peace Prize lecture he gave.. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 42 Folder 42.1]
• Letter from LP to William J. Haddock RE: Thanks him for his letter August 8, 1967 concerning the statement that Owen Chamberlain and LP made in their articles in Industrial Research. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 170 Folder 170.1]
• Letter from Otto Bastiansen, University of Oslo, to LP RE: Thanks him for his letter of July 6, 1967 which discussed the molecular structure of beryllium borohydride. Promises to keep him up-to-date with the Vietnam peace work. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 24 Folder 24.3]
• Letter from Rabbi Emeritus Abraham L. Feinberg, Holy Blossom Temple, to LP RE: Informs him that he visited the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and his U.S. passport has now been revoked. Asks LP for advice. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 119 Folder 119.1]