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Robb, Walter, June 18, 1947.
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| − | + | This lag of the military mind behind the actualities of current affairs has been tolerable in the past, where steam and electricity have been our highest forms of power, and TNT and similes mixtures, our highest explosives. But now, we dare not have it; and the tragedy is, we do have it. We have it and we venerate it, and vote our military 20 billions of revenue a year, in peace, while reducing our children, for their education, college included, to 2-1/2 billions a year. | |
I hope your Committee succeeds in teaching a majority of us, at least, just what really matters to us in our time, and why. I take the privilege of sending your letter and its inclosures to Vincent Mahoney, chief editorial writer on the Coast's leading paper (basis of content), The Chronicle. He is one of the working newspapermen (I am not employed) a former letter of mine recommended to you. His superior is the famous Royce Brier, who does an editorial feature for the paper, and is also possessed of a forward-looking mind. | I hope your Committee succeeds in teaching a majority of us, at least, just what really matters to us in our time, and why. I take the privilege of sending your letter and its inclosures to Vincent Mahoney, chief editorial writer on the Coast's leading paper (basis of content), The Chronicle. He is one of the working newspapermen (I am not employed) a former letter of mine recommended to you. His superior is the famous Royce Brier, who does an editorial feature for the paper, and is also possessed of a forward-looking mind. | ||
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This lag of the military mind behind the actualities of current affairs has been tolerable in the past, where steam and electricity have been our highest forms of power, and TNT and similes mixtures, our highest explosives. But now, we dare not have it; and the tragedy is, we do have it. We have it and we venerate it, and vote our military 20 billions of revenue a year, in peace, while reducing our children, for their education, college included, to 2-1/2 billions a year. I hope your Committee succeeds in teaching a majority of us, at least, just what really matters to us in our time, and why. I take the privilege of sending your letter and its inclosures to Vincent Mahoney, chief editorial writer on the Coast's leading paper (basis of content), The Chronicle. He is one of the working newspapermen (I am not employed) a former letter of mine recommended to you. His superior is the famous Royce Brier, who does an editorial feature for the paper, and is also possessed of a forward-looking mind.
Very sincerely,
Walter Robb.
Miss Mary E. Ray, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists Rooms28, 90 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey.
P.S. Can you tell me whether LaGuardia is still broadcasting? It is my understanding that he is, but, since the turn of the year, in this great city we do not hear him--the station told me some months ago that they were without a sponsor for him. If he still broadcasts, what network carries him? He should, in my judgment, be heard nationally, and there should be some sponsor willing to buy time for him on this coast. In our family, we miss him greatly.
The New Yorker's E.B. White is solidly on the side of mankind. Reprints of some of his remarks should be valuable assistance to you. No one else loves men more deeply, or writes so well.