TLS, 1950 August 15 : Princeton, to Florence Baldwin, National Citizen's Committee for United Nations Day, New York.

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TLS, 1950 August 15 : Princeton, to Florence Baldwin, National Citizen's Committee for United Nations Day, New York.

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Einstein declines to endorse the following statement: "The support of the U.N. by the world's free people can avert a World War." He writes, "The Nations who have to collaborate in a peaceful solution are not only the 'free people.' Such expression is a subtle form for the exclusion of a part of the members of the U.N., the collaboration of whom is indispensable for the achievement of the goal."

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