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Cox, M.D., July 9, 1946.
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84 Wellington St.,
Halifax, N.S., Canada,
July 9. 1946.
Dr. Albert Einstein,
Chairman,
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists,
90 Nassau Street,
Princeton, N.J., U.S.A.
Dr. Einstein:
Your advertisement in the "New Republic" of July 8 cannot but find a response among all those who are thinking seriously today. I do not know what the atomic scientists can do, when time is so short, but if there is anything others can do to help, we want to know it now. Moreover, I think a lot of us want to help in thinking out the problem.
How can we change people's thinking? For instance, how can we make people educated to accept the deceit of advertising generally (press, radio, etc.) into truth-loving or truth-facing people? How can we make them impervious to the whipped-up hate campaigns of the press? And how can we make luxury-loving people absorbed in their own comforts into world-citizens who feel injustice or suffering in Indonesia or Palestine as if it were happening to them?
Psychiatrists are saying "Begin with the young" (I have a copy of our