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Office of O.H. Steiner, President Turner Printing Machinery INC Formerly Turner Type Founders Co 2630 Payne Avenue Cleveland 14, Ohio

June 17, 1948

Dr. Albert Einstein, Chairman Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists 118 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey

Dear Sir:

 Thank you for your letter of May 5th.  

  I can well appreciate your Committee of Atomic Scientists feel "a special authority and a special responsibility in this struggle for peace",  because of your previous work,  which has brought into the World this new force of atomic energy. 

  I am further impressed with the urgency of the situation.   Public Opinion surveys indicate that most people have been impressed by its potentialities for evil. 

  Most respectfully I suggest that the problem is not to educate "people to a comprehension of the tragic situation in which mankind exists today".  They comprehend the situation and are fatalistic in their feeling of helplessness. 

  It rests rather in two directions: 1. An awakening to the fact that people can do something.   2. Outlining a simple program for accomplishing this. 

  Of course, the latter is no simple problem.   And yet the special authority and responsibility which apparently rests in your Committee makes it imperative that something be done along this line.   Certainly, it would appear to require more than a conventional educational program. 

                                  Sincerely yours, 
                                    O.H. Steiner

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