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Sey ad Ba ag tat ee bee ag ae ee he le ee ES ae i ea ae a ae ede Lf wid eats: ial . . 7 = . a . if Pn +3 er OF wt FL eo ft een ee PH ewWNe Oo prarerinshentdpeome Swe pepe On June 19, 1950 the "New York Compass" carried an article under the caption "Finstein Urges U. 5., Russia Yield Bombs" which stated that Albert Finstein in a United Nations fadio interview recorded ih the study of Fis home at Princeton, he _ New Jersey and which was broadcast by the Mutual Eroadcasting ‘19, System on June 18, 1950 suggested that the United States and the Soviet Union surrender their stock piles of atomic bemnbs to 2} an international authority, He also advocated systematic dis- '22 armament for all countries and establishment of world government. 23. Einstein did not name the United States and the Soviet Union 24 but those were the only two countries known to have the afomic 35 bomb. 26. 27 When asif’what he would suggest doing with the present 28. supply of the atom bombs already stock pilted, he replied: "3900 "Give it into the hands of a super national organi-~ ‘ ‘32... Zation. During the interval period of solid peace one must have 32 ~ protecting power. One-sided disarmament is not p-ssible; this 32 . is out of the question. Arms must be intrusted only te sn v4 international authority. There is no other possible-systenmatic 35 disarmament connected with super-national government. One “26 must not look too technically on tie problem of security. The it see WII to peace and the readiness to accept every step néeded for ‘te. > this goal is most impertent." 4 According to the article, Finstein said that a reméiy 's) for the present tense situation could not be found in prerering 42 for the event of war "but in sterting from the conviction that 43 security from militery disaster can be realized only by patient 44 negotiation and the creaticns cf a legal bases for the solution 45 of internaticnal rroblems, supported by a sufficiently stroenr evecutive agency--in short, a kind of world government? Finstein was asked whether the current atomic armaments 4$ race was leaving to ancther world war or vas a way to prevent wor. _ ... Finstein answered that "Competitive armament is not a way to prevent war, every step in this direction brings us neater to catastrophe. The armament race is the worse method to frevéent open confifct. On the contsry, real peace cannot be tteleased without systematic disarmament on a super national. “56 scake. _ ‘e -— 1095 Gh ee Fa ges Pog MATE AT ay Oo PE ’ aah ae ae lr ay 22 os - eee Beg he Soe gs . ot ye TE ~ a a idee Bi lie OBS aR Oe Pa a Ae he anaiell nS aaa a Re ee ae eS A