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STUART HUCKINS HAROLD P. DRISKO

EAST BOSTON 4045

TIMBER ENGINEERING COMPANY OF NEW ENGLAND 422 BORDER STREET, EAST BOSTON 28, MASS.

August 12th, 1947

Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists Room 28 90 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey

Gentlemen:

I consider Mr. Einstein's letter of the sixth a splendidly forceful presentation of to-day's need. If you will send me ten or a dozen additional copies of this letter I think I can forward it to several persons who may be interested in making a contribution to your work. Alternately, if you prefer making a direct mailing, I can send you some names and addresses. In any case please send me one additional letter and subscription blank for Mrs. Huckins who will make a small contribution. I am enclosing my own modest offering.

In a letter to Dr. Urey on July 1st, I said in part: "specifically I suggest that scientific leaders in all countries unite in a simple statement to the world that survival depends now on peace, demanding of their political leaders cessation of power politics, insisting upon constructive internationalism, and calling upon their people to support such endeavors. Only by some such dramatic action carefully publicized and persistently followed up can the present trend be halted and perhaps reversed. I would like it still better if leading scientists in every country, and researchers in bacteriology and God only knows what else, would join hands and say "I - and I - and I - will not do these things to my fellow creatures." There have been strikes for less worthy causes: why not strike in favor of civilization?"

I repeat this because I think that while this country should and must take leadership, nevertheless since the maintenance of peace is a two-way thing, it is extremely important to work for peace internationally, and it would be most useful if we could dramatize a statement of scientists on a world level.

Very truly yours,

Stuart Huckins (signature) Stuart Huckins

Home address: 33 Bancroft Road, Wellesley Hills 82, Mass. Summer " Powder Point, Duxbury, Mass.