HLS Letters
HLS re Russia and the Bomb 11-29-45“. . . What did Dad do in Washington? I would like to know, please. We here can't figure out why people should argue whether to keep the Bomb a secret from Russia because we don't believe the secret can be kept from Russia. In fact, we don't understand the Congress or the State Department or the President in much of what the do. Particularly in reference to the Bomb. [Don't send this letter to the Missourian or the FBI will come around again.] We pessimists think that a strong federal world state is the only thing which can avert another, bigger war. That this world state probably won't come about. That this next war may well bring about the semi-permanent chaos portrayed in HG Wells' Things to Come.”
