Letter from Linus Pauling to A.L. Wirin. July 12, 1960. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from LP to Bennett Travel Agency for $2,615.33.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]  [Also filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.3]
• Check from LP to Committee for First Amendment Defendants for $25.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]  [Also filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.3]
• Check from LP to Emergency Civil Liberties Committee for $25.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]  [Also filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.3]
• Check from LP to Mrs. Joan Harris for $155.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]  [Also filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.3]
• Check from LP to National Guardian Associates for $15.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]  [Also filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.3]
• Letter (in French) from C.S. Dongorozi, to LP. RE: Would like his opinion on the article 'Cristallisation asymetrique'. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1960) Box # 99 Folder # 99.1]
• Letter from B.E. Warren to A.C. Simonpietri, cc: Prof. E.W. Hughes RE: States that American International relations are in trouble. States that LP will no longer be a guest at the symposium due to obligations for his case. States that when delegates from other countries hear why LP could not attend they will go back to their countries sure that slanderous reports they've heard about the U.S. are true. States that the international good will and confidence will be lost. On behalf of the American National Committee of the International Union of Crystallography, requests that a postponement of LP's appearance. [Letter from Hughes July 13, 1960] [Filed under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960-1981), Box #2.017, Folder #17.3]
• Letter from Charles O. Porter, Congress of the United States, to LP. RE: Asks for advice concerning a Conference of World Parliamentarians on World Disarmament and Rule of Law. Encloses a brief summary. Asks for his ideas on a list of subjects. [Filed under LP Correspondence, (P: Correspondence, 1960) #314.1]
• Letter from Chester F. Carlson to LP RE: Informs LP that he will donate money not only to LP himself to use for the cause of peace but also to other societies and organizations which LP supports. [Filed under LP Science: (Pacific Institute for Advanced Study, 1948-1960), Box #14.036, Folder #36.3]
• Letter from Don DeValt to LP RE: Asks him to review an attached letter he wrote to Senator Eastland. Gives him his permission to share his name as one of the individuals who helped circulate the petition. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960), Box #2.018, Folder #18.1]
• Letter from Dr. William M. Evan, Bell Telephone Laboratories, to LP, RE: Dr. Evan is very pleased that LP is willing to contribute to the collection of essays on the prevention of World War III.  There is no objection to LP amplifying a proposal for a World Peace Research Organization. [Letter from LP to Dr. Evan, June 28, 1960][Letter from Drs. Evan, Wright and Deutsch to LP, December 20, 1960][Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1960-1969), #113.2]
• Letter from George P. Nicholas, to LP. RE: Is preparing an article for Sales Management. Would like him to answer four questions. [Letter from LP August 24, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1960) # 288.4]
• Letter from LP to A.L. Wirin. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960-1981), Box# 2.017, Folder #17.2]

  12 July 1960

  Mr. A.L. Wirin

  Hotel Edgewater

  Honolulu, Hawaii

  Dear Al,

  I have been working on the signatures. There are 438 pages of signatures of United States signers. I an having them bound into a single volume.

  The problem of binding the signatures of signers from other countries is a more difficult one, which I shall tackle when I get back from Europe.

  In this connection it has occurred to me that perhaps I should not give the signatures of signers outside the U. S. to the Internal Security Subcommittee.

  You mentioned briefly the legal question of the right of the U. S. Congress to investigate a petition to the United Nations. On thinking this matter over, I have reached a tentative conclusion that the U. S. Congress might well be justified in asking about my activity in having written the petition and having circulated it, and also in verifying the names of the U. S. signers, as given in the document that I submitted to the United Nations, by inspecting their signatures.

  However, it seems to me that it might well not be correct for the U. S. Congress to verify the names of signers from countries other than the U. S., by issuing an order that the signatures are to be brought to Washington.

  If the United States has question about the validity of the names, the United States representative to the United Nations might ask the United Nations to check the list of 11,021 names, to discover if there has been fraud. Alternatively, the United States might ask other member nations in the United Nations to check the names of their nationals.

  Action taken by the Government of the United States to check the signers of a petition to the United Nations who are nationals of countries other than the United States might be considered interference in the affairs of these other nations. Is it proper for the Congress of the United States to attempt to verify or disprove the validity of the 2l6 signers of the petition to the U. N. who are citizens of the U.S.S.R, or of those other signers who are citizens of other nations, aside from the United States itself?

  If there are questions of this sort, then it seems to me that I might be justified in refusing to bring the signatures of the people front nations other then the United States to Washington on 15 September, unless the legal question has been resolved by that time.

  I hope that you are having a good time in Honolulu.

  Cordially yours,

  Linus Pauling: jh

  CC: Mr. Fred Okrand

• Letter from LP to Ambassador James J. Wadsworth. RE: Would like to talk to him while in Geneva. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960) #445.1]             
• Letter from LP to E.H.S. Burhop, RE: When Burhop sent LP a list of signers for the appeal in 1957, Burhop mentioned that he had the original signatures.  LP now needs those original signatures because LP needs to appear at a hearing of the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. [Filed under LP Peace: (An Appeal by Scientists to the Governments and People of the World, 1957-1959), Box #5.002, Folder #2.1]
• Letter from LP to Himself RE: Expresses disappointment in the way the New York Times handled a mistake in their editorial that they were responsible for.  Notes his meeting with James Reston to discuss the issue. [Filed Under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960-1981), Box #2.017, Folder #17.4]
• Letter from LP to Norman Wilson, Claire Marraffino, and James Rathe RE: Shares that his is grateful for their letter in support of his stance. [Letter from Wilson, Marriffino, and Rathe to LP June 22, 1960] [Filed under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960), Box #2.018, Folder #18.1]
• Letter from M. Feigen, Scientific Research Society of America, to LP. RE: Invites him to speak at a meeting of RESA. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1960) #381.1]
• Letter from Mory Berman to LP RE: Compliments LP on his cause. Adds his own voice to the cause, protesting for disarmament. Asks him to accept him as a kindred soul. [Letter from Berman to LP September 8, 1960] [Filed under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960), Box #2.018, Folder #18.1]
• Letter from Paul H. Marston, to LP. RE: Informs him that the court has approved his Accounting and Order of Distribution of the bonds to Crellin. Asks for a check for the attorney's fees. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1960) #258.2]
• Letter from Robert Sterling to Robert E. Garet RE: States the New York Times article on LP was confusing and seemed to insinuate his connection to communism. States LP's reply corrected The New York Times false information and suggest that the paper go into the matter further and rewrite the background of LP correctly. [Letter from Garet to Sterling July 1, 1960] [Letter from Sterling to LP July 18, 1960]  [Filed under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960-1981), Box #2.017, Folder #17.4]
• Letter from Sarolta Segmoid to LP RE: Wishes him Bon Voyage for his trip to Europe. Looks forward to meeting him in the future. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960), Box #2.018, Folder #18.1]
• Letter from Senator Alex Wiley to Charles D. Coryell RE: Shares that in LP's testimony there were no intentions of implying guilt or any wrong doing, but rather because of the possibility that he could furnish information on pertinent individuals. Shares that he holds LP in the highest respect. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960), Box #2.019, Folder #19.1]
• Letter from Warren Nicholas, to LP. RE: Wonders if his letter from June 23rd failed to reach him. Encloses another clipping. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1960) # 288.4]
• Pamphlet: The Democratic Platform: The Rights of Man, a report of the Committee Resolutions and Platform as presented to the Democratic National Convention, July 12, 1960. [Filed under AHP: AHP: American Civil Liberties Union: Box #5.002, Folder #2.8]
• Typescript: "Statement by LP", [Re: Discusses the events that happened after receiving his subpoena commanding him to appear before the Subcommittee] [Filed under LP Biographical: Pauling v. Bellingham Publishing Company, 1960-1962: Box #3.002, Folder # 2.1]