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~~ Binstein was listed as a sponsor of the National Non-Partis: Committee to Defend the Rights of the Twelve Commnist Leaders. (New York Daily Mirror, 9-10-49, 100-3634L-4) On February 12, 1950 Einstein appeared by transcription on a television program sponsored by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on NBC. He warned that mankind can be saved from possible “general annitilation® by banning all violence among nations creating a “supra-nationalses.body to decide questions of immediate concern to the security of the nations.” He said the “hysterical ' character® of. the armaments race betwaen the United States and Russia has now ~ assumed compuleive force in fashioning policies and.e..fin the end there ‘beckons more and mre clearly general annihilation. Einstein denounced the present policy of nations and the idea of achieving security through national arnament. Within the United States, he said, the results have been the concentration of vast financial power in the military with the militarization -- of youth and the “close supervision* of loyalty “by a police force growing ______ more conspicuous every day.” . : He also indicated that independent political thinking has been intimidated and the military security has narrowed the range of public -———~ information, (Washington Mmes Herald article, 2-13-50)