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I PT a wwe we on nd DULRWNHS ape epee pe ee 2 ons cwo ws L _ 3 i "The Datly Telegraph and Morning Pest", Londen, England isgue of Tcbruary 23, 1950 carried sn 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 hy Mre. Roosevelt, Professor Einstein cn that day gave a werning that the Hydrogen tomb might destroy civiliza- tion. The article stated that Einstein condemned the "hysterical character" which the armament race between the United Ststes and Russia had assumed. The situation, he said, demanded the renunciation of violence and the setting vo of a supa-national body. .. According to Einstein, cn both sides reans o: wass destruction vere nerfected with feverish haste behind alls of secrecy. "The H-tomb appears on the public horicon cs 2 prebatle attainable goal. If successful, radi6-ective roisoning of the . atmosphere and, hence, annihilation of any life on earth, has been brought with'n the renge of technical nossibilities. "The ghost-like character of this devolenment lies in its appareutiy comnulsory trend. Every step appears as en unavoidable cons2quence of the preceding one. In the end there beckons more and more clearly general arnihilation". . Frofessor Einstein contended that the idea of achieving security throurh national armament was in the present state a military techniave, a disastreus illusion. The illusicn was fostered ty the fact that Americs succeeded first in rroducing the atomic bomb. "This mechanistic techrical-military psycheloricel attitude had inevitable conseguences. Every single act in foreign policy is governed exclusively ty one view." Such a policy, Professor “insteins aid, led to: "the establishnent of military bases at 21] impertent points on the plebe: the militarization of youth: close surervision of the loyalty of citizens ana in particuler ef civil servants by a police forces growing more consricuous every day; the intimidation of neonle of inderendent polities] thinkine; the indoctrin.tien of the wablie by radio, press and schocl; and the groyvine restriction of tne range cf public- information under the pressure of milibtory sccrecy. : "Ys there any way out of this iripasse? All of us, and pafticularly those who are responsible fer the ettitude of the Unkted Etates and Pussia should realize that we may have vanquished an“external enemy but have been incavable of setting rid of the mentality created by war.