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Typescript: Objective of Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, No Date.
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June 7, 1946
Dear Dr. Einstein:
This a report on the progress of the Committee to which you have given your name. At this time, approximately two weeks later, we have received in excess of $35,000 in cash and pledges of more than $15,000 in addition. We are thus assured today of one quarter of our campaign goal of $200,000.
But that is not all. The telegram stimulated hundreds of people throughout the nation to organize groups of their own to spread its message and to collect funds in response to its appeal. Such spontaneous fund raising campaigns are now under way in Boston, Massachusetts; Cincinnati, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; Los Angeles, California; Galveston, Texas; and Champaign, Illinois. There are undoubtedly others of whom we have not heard. These groups are raising contributions locally and expect to send the money in to us at the conclusion of their drives. We have received considerable newspaper publicity, including articles in the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune. Manchester Boddy, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News, reprinted the telegram in full in his column in that paper, which resulted in a considerable number of small contributions reaching us. We are now preparing a mail appeal to go out to 50,000 people by the middle of June.
On the basis of the overwhelming response to our initial appeal, I thin it indisputable that we have of the liveliest public issues in America today and that we can count with certainty on reaching our initial campaign quota of $200,000.