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Otto Jeidels

Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association 300 Montgomery Street San Francisco, 20

June 26, 1946

Dear Mr. Einstein:

To your letter of June 15 I would like to respond without delay and with a modest check adapted to my "ability to pay". Anything which has your endorsement ranks for me as a good cause and I hope that the publicity contemplated by your Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists will be successful. I should not conceal from you that I have my doubts that the confusion occasioned by previous publicity on the subject can be allayed by more of it. It seems to me a subject which for clarification and solution does not gain much by what is styled as the "democratic process", only a fraction of 1% of the population being able to have an expert knowledge and the mass being utterly incompetent in this highest field of modern science.

Our principal newspaper in this city has on the Editorial Page, which otherwise I do not read, an occasional contribution of an anonymous author of briefest "Gedankensplitter". Today he celebrates the anniversary of last year's foundation of UN, as follows:

One year Half united Half affrighted.

With best personal wishes, I am Sincerely yours, Otto Jeidels

Dr. Albert Einstein, Chairman, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, 28 First National Bank Building, 90 Nassau Street, Princeton, N.J.

P.S. The enclosed editorial from Eugene Meyer's Washington Post of June 21 just catches my eye.

1. 844 $20.-