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# c PTO a bw tr bane ad eee ne) 14 pepe re + a <7 ‘* = a 4 uy - 4 ee ™ x ; £ "The Datly Telegraph and Morning Pest", London, Enpland issue of rebruary 23, 1950 carried an article under the caption 'Professer Dinstein on H-Homb Danger to Civilization" stated - that on the first of a series of television programs being conducted by Mre. Roosevelt, Professor Einstein cn that day Fave 2 werning that the Hydrogen tomb might destroy civilizs- tion. The article stated that Einstein condemned the "hysterical character" which the armament race between the United Ststes and Russia had assumed. The situaticn, he said, demanded the renunciation of violence and the setting vr of a supa-national beady. ah a . f&ccorstne to Einstein, cn both sides reans o: wass destruction were perfected with feverish haste tehind valls of secrecy. "The H-tomb appears on the public hericon cs « prebatle =. attainable goal. If successful, radi6-ective noisoning of the . atmosphere and, hence, ennihilation of any life on earth, has been brought with'n the renge of technical possibilities. "The ghost-like character of this develerment Lie: in its apparentiy cumrulsory trend. Every step arpears as en unavoidable cons2quence of the preceding one. In the end there beckons more and mere clearly general arnihilaticn". . Frofesser Einstein ccentended that the idea of achieving security throurh national armament was in the present state a military technioe, a disastreus illusion. The illusion was fostered ty the fact that Americs succeeded first in rroducing the atomic bomb. "This mechanistic techrical-military psycheoloericoal attitude hud inevitable consequences. Every single act in foreign policy is governed exclusively tr one view." Such a policy, Professor “insteins aid, led to: "the establishnent of military hases at cll impertent points on the plebe: the militarization of youth: close surervision of the loyalty of citizens anda in particuler ef civil] servants by a police forces erowing more consticuous every dsys; the intimidation of neonte of inderendent polities] thinkine; the indoetrin.tien of the wablie by radio, press and. schocl; and the grovine restriction of tne range ef “pee under the pressure of milileryv scecrecy. "Is there any way out of this iripasse? All of us, and ticularly those who are responsible fer the ettitude of the tin ted States and Pussia should realize that we may have vanquished an “external enemy but have been incavatle of setting rid of the mentality created by war. 1059 | 7 z “yg. - 2 wee erm i a