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Minstein, in Last Act, Joined With Other World Scientists in Appeal to Prevent Wa A POWERFUL SPUR to ending the cold war came last week from an appeal’ rie 7 signed by eight world-renowned scientists. It was prepared by the late Albert Einstein $343 a ies and British philosopher Bertrand Russell. Seven of the eight are Nobel prize winners and Fz they include Communists and anti-Communists. . Among the Nobel Prize winners who signed the appeal, besides Eins Percy W. Bridgman, physicist, of Harvard; Prof. Herman J. Muller, geneticist of Indiana! University; Prof. Leopold Infeld, of Warsaw. University, and Prof. Frederic Joliot-Curie of France. Others who signed were Prof. Cecil F. Powell, Prof, Joseph Rotblat and Prof. § Hideki Yukawa. The appeal called for the al H West negotiations to renounce nuclear weapons and secure a ments, _ Full text of the appeal follows: ee tata ee | slow torture of disease and dis- Figs RUSSELL'S STATEMENT : ; integration. ; The accompanying statement, |” | MANY WABNINGS is which has been signed by some Many warnings have been ut- g BE the most eminent scientific au- | Tend by emment men of science Bj -thorities in different parts df the ‘and by authorities in military Fagia strategy.» None of them will say Ba Pi is bolition of war and as a step in that direction East- general reduction of arma- $2 world, deals with the perils of a nuclear war. It makes it clear 7’ ¥ that the worst results are certa that neither side can hope for vic- ; What they do, say is that these tory in such a war aud that there results are possible, and no one is a very real danger of the exter- can be sure that they will not be mination of the Yraman race by ; realized, dust and rain from radioactive _ We have not yet found that the ff clouds. , ; : views of exparts on this question B it suggests that neither the pub- & 1 depend in any degree upon their lic nor the governments of the ; politics or prejudices. hey de: world are adequately uware of the » pend only, so far as our researche: 1 Pave revealed, upon the extent of § danger. It points out that an ! agreed prohibition of nuclear? 3.200 << the particular’ expert's, knowledge. weapons, while it might be useful aks 3 od fave found that the men who Ain lessening tension, would not : Bey ws 4 know most are the mast gloomy. afford @ solution, since such we a0 3 ed Here, then, is the problem BgRs pons would certainly bé manu- which we present to you, stark factored) and wed i 2 wieat wat ALBERT EINSTEIN and dreadful, and inescapable in spite of previous agreements to 9 i shall we put an end to the human The only hope for mankind is! oe group rather than to another |war? People will not face, this! the avoidance of war. To call for Qf Bn eae in peril, and, if] alternative because it is so difficult a way of thinking which shally? quay pers nee lta abolish w B the peril is understood, there is ual Wat. make such avoidance possible is). Phat hey on Mollentively| ‘The abolition of war will de- the purpose of this statement hope shat they my Cael mand distasteful limitations | of The first move came us a col " ok i ji , ‘ Liat Vetvecn Einstein and! We have to learn to think in| national sovereignty, But what myself, Einstein's signature was,4 1° way. We have to learn to) perhaps impedes understandir given in the last week of his life pk parselves, not what steps 8 se sethat Peo ana Since his death I have approached Pe (o°0 jo give military victory |r ne tern kind : amen of scientific competence both to whatever group we prefer, for ague and abstract. Peop's tig im the East and in the West, for| ere 10 longer are such ners scarcely realize in Eee a nolitical disay vuts should not! tle question we ave to ask our-|the danger is to themselves ang political disageeemeuts should not ives is; what steps can be taken|their children und their gr influence men of science in esti . ven vba lle hut came t0, Prevent a military contest of children, and not only toa dimly