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dated July 18, 1955: Russell hails appeal

Lord Russell (Bertrand Russell), the philosopher, has welcomed the appeal made on July 15 by eighteen Nobel Prize winning scientists at Mainau (West Germany) for the renunciation of force as an instrument of policy, but "regretted the absence from it of signatures by Communists." The scientists' call was issued at the end of their annual meeting on the island of Mainau. A week ago Lord Russell had released a statement signed by himself, the late Dr. Albert Einstein and other prominent scientists warning of the perils of nuclear warfare. Lord Russell said: "I welcome very much the statement by 18 eminent scientists saying very much the same things as were said in the scientists' statement which I published last week. The only thing to be regretted is the absence from it of signatures by Communists. Einstein and I had hoped to show that political differences do not prevent a large and important measure of agreement among men of science and a consequent possibility of cooperation.''

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