Letter from Linus Pauling to Henry R. Luce. December 6, 1963. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 3 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Anderson Typewriter Co. RE: $12.50.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Athenaeum RE: $5.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Carol De’ak RE: $48.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Claiborne Johnston RE: $14.25.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP January 21, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Check from AHP to Frontier RE: $7.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to J.W. Robinson’s RE: $167.67.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Jiro Sugita RE: $86.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Joan Harris RE: $6.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Mosse Linens RE: $52.93.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Texaco Inc. RE: $4.65.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to The Nation RE: $18.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Victor Martin RE: $63.32.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to the Harry F. Ward 90th Birthday Committee  RE: $10.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP January 21, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Check from AHP to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art RE: $10.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP January 21, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Handwritten letter from Women’s Strike for Peace - Minneapolis and St. Paul, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at top right: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.2]
• Handwritten note from Sylvester Krolikowski to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter of December 2, 1963. Includes two copies of the letter that LP requested - the letter from Gaylord Nelson, U. S. Senator, to Sylvester Krolikowski October 21, 1963, in which Nelson commends Krolikowski for his fine letter to LP. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.7]
• Letter from AHP to Dr. Otto Nathan RE: Says that after speaking to LP, they have decided that Sunday, January 14 would be a good time for him to have the afternoon meeting which Nathan has discussed in his previous letter.  Also says that she would be happy to meet with the members of the National Board, especially Nathan and Gage Colby. Notes that both she and LP are having a difficult time recovering from the news of President Kennedy’s assassination.
• Letter from Herbert Rosenfeld to LP RE: Rosenfeld informs LP that the reports from the reception were uniformly enthusiastic and he is sure that everyone was happy with the results of the reception. [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Individual Correspondence (Rosbaud-Rundle): Box #336 Folder #336.2] 
• Letter from Herbert Rosenfeld to LP RE: Rosenfeld is enclosing a copy of a letter addressed to organization around the county.  The Kennedy Memorial for Internal Peace intends to work on the problem of peace around the world and the unity of America.  Rosenfeld hopes that LP will lend an endorsement to this effort.  [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Individual Correspondence (Rosbaud-Rumble): Box #336 Folder #336.2]
• Letter from James Dewees to LP, RE: Dewees asks for LP’s thoughts on a possible time that he may be able to come and speak in Phoenix for the American Friends Service Committee.  Dewees notes that the months of June, July, August, and September are not suitable due to the oppressive heat in the area.  [LP’s reply January 21, 1964] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Am), Box #4.009, Folder #9.4]
• Letter from LP [Signed by Katherine P. Cassady] to Alfred P Fishman, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, RE: In response to Fishman letter pertaining to LP’ writing a manuscript about the theory of anesthesia and the relation of anesthetic activity of various substances to the properties of their aqueous solutions. LP says that his colleagues and himself have decided not to submit a manuscript. [Letter from Fishman to LP October 7, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence), #129.7]    
• Letter from LP to David Moe, California State Polytechnic College, RE: Informs that because of his full schedule he is not able to accept the invitation to speak at their meeting. Suggest the possibility of speaking next fall. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2] 
• Letter from LP to Dr. Robert T. Rubin, The Neuropsychiatric Institute, RE: Apologizes that he will not be able to attend one of their meetings due to his heavy schedule. [Letter from Ruben to LP November 5, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N:Correspondence, 1963), #288.7]
• Letter from LP to Elise Carper, President, Women’s National Press Club RE: Pleased to hold his first press conference upon return to the US under the auspices of the Women’s National Press Club. LP and AHP plan to come to Washington on the morning of Jan. 8 1964 and depart in the afternoon. [Letter from Carper to LP October 23, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.2]
• Letter from LP to Genji Matsuda RE: Thanks him for his letter of congratulations. Informs that he has resigned from Caltech, and apologizes that he will no longer be responsible for the work being done. [Letter from Matsuda to LP October 23, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Matsuda, Genji), #244.3] 
• Letter from LP to Harry S. Truman, Former President of the United States RE: Thanks him for the letter of congratulations he sent to the Humanist Council of Southern California on November 19th. Forgives Truman for the remarks he made about LP when Truman addressed the American Chemical Society in Kansas City. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.6]
• Letter from LP to Henry R. Luce, Editor, Life Magazine. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Life), #219.3] 

  6 December 1963

  Mr. Henry R. Luce

  Editor-in-Chief

  Life Magazine

  Rockefeller Center

  New York 20, New York

  Dear Mr. Luce:

  Many people have sent me copies of letters of protest written to Life Magazine about the improper and erroneous statements about me made in your editorial of 25 October 1963.

  The writer of one of these letters has sent me a letter that he received in reply from Life Magazine, signed by Roger Keith for the editors.

  This letter contains a serious error, and I write to ask that you order that a letter of correction of the error be written and mailed to all people to whom letters were sent containing the error.

  The error is in the last sentence of the letter that I have, which reads as follows:

  "We have also noted there that Dr. Pauling's petition did not demand an ‘uninspected’ test ban, but it did call for ‘immediate action’ without any reference to inspection, a significant omission because an enforceable inspection system was then the main issue separating the U.S. and Russia."

  In fact, at the time that I wrote the petition and gathered many signatures the matter of an enforceable inspection was not the main issue separating the United States and Russia. As you know, the Soviet Union advocated an enforceable inspection system at that time. Although you and your editors may be of the opinion that later on this became the main issue separating the United States and Russia, there is no evidence that omission of any reference to inspection in the petition is a significant one.

  I can only describe your use of this argument, after you had the information contained in my letter of 30 October, as immoral.

  Yours truly,

  Linus Pauling:kpc

• Letter from LP to Henry R. Luce, Editor, Life Magazine. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Life), #219.3] 

  6 December 1963

  Mr. Henry R. Luce

  Editor-In-Chief

  Rockefeller Center

  New York 20, New York

  Dear Mr. Luce:

  I write to you again about the unconscionable treatment of me by Life Magazine, of which you are Editor-in-chief.

  As you know, Life Magazine was guilty of an outright lie, is its perfectly clear statement, in its editorial on 25 October 1963,that I had demanded the uninspected stoppage of all nuclear tests.

  If you and your magazine had any standards of morality, you would have corrected and retracted this statement, and have apologized for it. All that your magazine has done is to make a statement of acquiescence to a correction in a letter from a correspondent, with an added quibbling statement apparently designed to confuse the reader.

  Moreover, the same quibbling statement, which itself is essentially untrue, is contained in a letter of 8 November 1963 to me, in answer to my letter of 30 October to you. This letter of 8 November is signed by Hedley Donovan, editorial director.

  You yourself had made this point in your letter of 25 October to me. Then in my letter of 30 October to you I said that you were wrong, in that the Soviet proposal introduced in the disarmament subcommittee on 14 June 1957 which was just after the time when the bomb-test petition was written, said "II. There should be an Institution of control which will oversee the cessation of atomic and hydrogen weapons tests.

  III. Control posts should be established in the U.S.S.R., U.S., U.K., and in the Pacific Ocean for the purposes of supervision."

  In his letter of 8 November to me, Mr. Donovan agrees that this proposal was made on 14 June 1957 by the Soviet Union before the disarmament subcommittee. He then mentions that the climate of the talks changed later that summer, between September and November 1963, and says "the negotiations thus remained deadlocked — primarily on the inspection issue — and were deadlocked at the time you presented your petition to the U. N."

  I am not sure that Mr. Donovan's assumption is correct; but in any case this change occurred after my bomb-test petition had been written and after many of the signatures to it had been collected.

  I have to tell you that I am convinced that your misrepresentation of me and my action is unscrupulous and deliberate. I am shocked that you should permit the subordinate editors of Life Magazine to take the actions that they have been taking and are taking.

  Mr. Henry R. Luce -2- 6 December 1963

  I have to point out, as another illustration of the feebleness of the arguments presented by Mr. Donovan, the statements made in the penultimate paragraph of his letter of 8 November to me, which reads as follows:

  "With regard to your more general thoughts on inspection we have examined the sources you cited. In No More War!, 1958, you discuss the feasibility of detection systems but do not hinge the stoppage of nuclear tests to inspections. In Humanism and Peace, 1961, you advocate compromise of the on-site inspection issue while re-affirming your previous position that tests should be stopped, "followed by” international agreements on other disarmament matters under the best possible system of inspection. In the Oslo Statement, three months later, you advocate compromise and do not set forth priorities."

  The facts are that I have consistently advocated the best possible systems of inspection and I have consistently advocated that nuclear tests be stopped by international agreements. I had hoped that a treaty would be made that would stop all nuclear tests, with a system of inspection that would be acceptable to the Government of the United States. In fact, the Government of the United States did not "hinge the stoppage of nuclear tests to inspection," so far as tests other than underground tests are concerned. I cannot see any way at all in which my advocacy of international action with respect to nuclear tests differs from the policy that has been accepted and acted upon by the Government of the United States.

  I am shocked that, which the knowledge that was available to you in my letter of 30 October 1963, you should have permitted Life Magazine to publish its misleading statement in the issue of 15 November 1963.

  Yours truly,

  Linus Pauling:kpc

• Letter from LP to Jerome Guss RE: Thanks Guss for the letter of congratulations. Says that only published discoveries can be considered for a Nobel Prize. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.7]
• Letter from LP to Joseph Wythe RE: Informs him that he has decided not to choose an architect until after his trip to Europe with AHP.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Box # 4.047 Folder # 47.1]
• Letter from LP to Kenneth Hedberg, Oregon State University, to LP RE: Says he thinks he will be unable to come to Corvallis next May to speak before student groups.  Describes his upcoming busy schedule. [Letter from Hedberg to LP November 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Hedberg, Kenneth), #153.1]
• Letter from LP to M.S. Arnoni, Editor, The Minority of One, RE: On the matter as to who should serve as Chairman of the New York Meetings. LP believes that he should be someone who was one of the initial signers of the bomb-test-ban petition. He says that Oppenheimer was not one, and doesn’t think he would do well as Chairman. Lists several people and the order in which he would like them to be asked to serve. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M.S. Arnoni), #6.15]   
• Letter from LP to Professor T. Yoritake, University of Nagasaki, RE: LP sends a recommendation letter about Dr. Matsuda’s qualifications to become a Professor and Chairman for the Department of Biochemistry. [Letter from Wright to LP November 1, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Y: Correspondence, 1938-1977), #462.19] 
• Letter from LP to R.P. Dominique Pire RE: Comments on his statement that his work for peace is more positive then his. Shares that he disagrees with the statement and believes the reverse. [Letter from Pire to LP October 31, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Pire, R.P. Dominique, 1963-1966), #308.4] 
• Letter from LP to Robert Havermann RE: Says that the anecdote Havermann included in his letter of one year ago to LP is essentially correct.  Says that the Journal of Philosophy did not accept his invitation to write an article on “Humanism as a Philosophy.” [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963), #169.1]
• Letter from Linus Jr. to the Goertzels, RE: Linus Jr. thanks the Goertzels for allowing him to read the chapters of his father's biography. He points out one factual error and says that the second chapter flowed more smoothly than the first, but that was probably because it was of more importance to him. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family, Box 5.009, Folder 9.1]
• Letter from Samuel Rentsch Jr. to LP RE: Rentsch asks LP if he can recommend a suitable graduate student to take on a project Rentsch is currently considering.  The project involves finding a suitable chemical component which can be incorporated into the fabric of clothing worn by people working on boats.  The component should be such that if the person fell overboard the suit would provide them with warmth and buoyancy.   [Letter from Gilrane to Rentsch December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Correspondence, 1960-1963: Box #342 Folder #342.4]
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP and AHP RE: “In-Mail Deposit Receipt.” $50.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP and AHP RE: “Temporary Receipt In-Mail Deposit.” $50.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.030, Folder #30.2]
• Telefax from Arthur Herzog to LP, RE: Herzog is sorry to report that he and the Times have not been able to resolve the article. The article will not appear, but Herzog can use the material in the book. He sends his best to LP and his family. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.013, Item 13.74]