Evening star., 1948-05-04
Letters to The Star

MIR. CulbertSon on World Government
To the Editor Of The Star:
In your editorial, only Dream" April 20,
you castigate one of the centurys greatest
thinkers for his dreams of world government.
1T is easy for man like DR.. Einstein," you
write. who has no responsibility for the safety
of this nation to denounce our armament pro-
gram and assert that our only hope of peace
and security lies with world government :.
The course which he would have us take ignores
all of the lessons OF our experience" Then you
point out that "once before" after World War
I. the United States discarded its arms and
put our faith in solemny worded lnserna-
tional agreements"
Admonishing that I'VE must not be soft
minded enough" to do it again, you conclude:
"As long as we are confronted with a threat
from hostile arms, are today We have
no rational choice except to remain armed and
ready ourselves
DR.. Einsten is not only one Of the worlds
greatest citizens but is also proud citizen OF
the United States. do not think you can cite
a single instance where Dr. Einstein favors
unilateral disarmament OF America in world
of the armed camp. Nor is he as naive as you
make him appear in his faith in solemnly
worded treaties, since the very purpose "f the
world government, like the purpose of our
Federal Government, is to substitute the rule
of enforceable law for the anarchy of power
politics and treachery of power politics
treaties.
Amateur Federalists Criticized.
respectfully disagree with some Of DR.
Einsteins concepts on the structure OF the
world government His idea borrowed from
well ell-meaning amateur federalists of a world
federal government with an elective world
house of representatives would mean the poll
tcians of the biggest have-not nations like
India and China could hopelessly outvote the
biggest have nations, the U. S. A. and the
U. S. S. r. 1t would mean that fol eign
world federal army could walk at will into the
militia defended United States. This is sheer
political fantasy. The right to be sovereign is
a right to be free. And the only freedom the
American nation will be willing to give up,
unless conquered, is the freedom to rearm for
aggression or wage aggressive war.
If had to choose between DR.. Einstein's
dream" of world government and your ZEAL
istic" atomic race now going on between Amer
lea and Russia-a race in which other nations
too will soon take a hand-then I you'd cer-
tainly choose DR.. Einstein's world government.
For there is one profound truth Of which he
Revolution and of which you are apparently
oblivious. That is the fact that within few
short years the world must choose either
world dictator or strong cooperative Of ma
tions to prevent any dictator from producing
and launching atomic bombs for the destruc-
ton of the cities Of the world. Power politics
and atomic bombs cannot be mixed Your old
fashioned concept of balance of powers bal
ance that never failed to end in the unbalance
Of war-can mean only awaiting bovnely the
inevitable atomic catastrophe. This catastrophe
can come in one of two ways preventive
war by America now to stop Russia from build
ing enough atomic bombs to blow up our cities
(which would be logical power politics solu-
tom, or war later by Russia whenrhe post
war "conquests' are consolidated and she feels
strong enough with atomic weapons to move
against Paris and Marking at whose doors she
stands now temporarily arrested only by the
ephemeral atomic supremacy Of the United
States. The American people will not favor a
preventive war since they do not understand
the logic of power politics. They understand
only the logic of Christianity plus the simple
fact that a mother does not want her boy to
60 to war. American mothers and fathers will
vote out Of ONCE anyone WHO talks about =