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Mr. Albert Einstein, Chairman Emergency Committees of Atomic Scientists, Incorporated 118 Nassau Street, Princeton, N.J. Dear Mr. Einstein, As a contributor to your campaign for peace [illegible] rise of atomic energy, am I, an ignorant person, over bold in writing to the great Einstein some ideas to whom, by the way in the interplay of thought, I might even be indebted. One can never be sure of the origin of a thought.- Should the world for obvious reasons decide that atomic energy (like electricity and all other dangerous elements) must be controlled, and, in this instance at least be used only for peace-time purposes; and should this decision crystallize into a world or International Law suggestion of a World Court: in this [illegible] age it is surely obvious that a way must be devised to enforce that (which would seem benevolent) world law; and that this way must be an adequate punishment devised and always available. What [illegible) efficient for this purpose might one ask than an international body of gens d'armes at the disposal of the World Court armed with atomic weapons to attack the criminal aggressor. Surely, Stalin's Russia, which, since the Russian Revolution, has [illegible] peace; its development of Russia's vast resources of capital. "Means of produce-