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                                                        MAY 7   RECD

COLUMBIA NAVAL STORES COMPANY SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

May 5th, 1948

J. C. NASH PRESIDENT

Dr. Albert Einstein, Chairman Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists 118 Nassau Street Princeton, N. J.

Dear Dr. Einstein:

  Your letter of April 29th is received and I am enclosing herewith as I did last year a modest check as some small help in your campaign of public education.  It is more and more apparent that such public education is essential. 

  I received with your letter the accompanying circular entitled "A Policy for Survival", and I am taking the liberty of commenting on this since I share with you the thought that the perspective is not altogether hopeless, and the circular states that there is growing and powerful support of the peoples of the West for a drive for world government.  As evidence of the necessity of full support I am enclosing for your observation clipping from the Savannah Morning News of May 4th.  I do this because it is distressing to me to observe that so responsible a person as the rector of an Episcopal Church in Charleston, S. C,  should not only dismiss the idea of a superstate as idealistic,  but also if I read his article correctly,  dismisses the possibility of peace as also too idealistic a hope.  So low in some cases has sunk the state of the public mind. 

  I am encouraged to note that you are hopeful for discussion and negotiation at highest governmental level even if it means secrecy in its initial stages.  I should be happy to think that there is more between these lines than you have indicated on the surface and as for the level of the discussion I for one should be happy to see this level represented by Stalin, Truman,  Einstein or something close to this.

              Yours sincerely, 
                Cheshire Nash

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