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Adam Elliott Armstrong Three Rivers, Michigan

August 8, 1947

Emergency Comm. of Atomic Scientists 90 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey

Att: Dr. Albert Einstein

Gentlemen: I have your literature stating the purpose of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists together with the statement issued by the Committee at your later meet- ing in Princeton. I am heartily in sympathy with your aims and believe that this campaign of education which you have started in regard to the diffusion of knowledge about atomic energy, its possible usefulness and its pos- sible disastrous results, is very necessary. To further your work I am enclosing my check for $500.00 However I do not think education along this line will ever prevent war. The notion of a super-national government is the only thing that looks as though it might possibly abolish war. When the thirteen colonies of our country came to the conclusion that they could no longer endure the English rule, war was started, but it took that great docu- ment, The Declaration of Independence, which was written by a few men, to unite the colonies and bring success to their cause. Now it seems the whole world is in a very unsatisfac- tory condition. Fear is everywhere. The enemy they fear is not so much some other country as war itself. Many people are saying, "We ought to do something about it", but they know not what to do and they have no leader. The idea of one super-government over the nations has had favorable consideration but I believe to most people it looks like a hopeless task. Why would not the same kind of a thing as united the thirteen colonies unite the nations of the world? If a few men would get together and write a Declaration of Dependence with a constitution and a workable plan for establishing and maintaining such a super-government