Letter from Bertrand Russell to President Johnson, 12/30/63

X From: The Earl Russell, O.M.,F.R.S., PLAS PENRHYN, PENRHYNDEUDRAETH, MERIONETH. TEL. PENRHYNDEUDRAETH 242. THE WHITE HOUSL 21 December 1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson, DEC 30 8 50 AM '63 The White House, Washington, D.C., RECEIVED U.S.A. Dear President Johnson, I write to express my appreciation of your policy towards the important issue of peace and future relations with the Soviet Union. I am particularly hopeful that your Administration will find a way of involving China in the essential discussions related to disarmament and an end to the Cold War. I hope you will agree that Chinese intransigence is both un- fortunate and remediable. The exclusion from world affairs and the grievances the Chinese profess to feel could, if redressed, result in considerable advance as may be shown by the extensive proposals for nuclear disarmament advanced by the Chinese Government in Peking Review. It has further come to my notice that Premier Castro would welcome lessening of tension with the United States and I very much hope this will be possible despite political differences. The feeling is growing that the grave and imminent danger of mass extermination can be finally ended and I wish to assure you of the widest possible support in that pursuit among all those who have worked against nuclear war over many years. I enclose for your interest some literature concerning the recently formed Peace Foundations. I should value your opinion of these efforts and, still more, your support of them. Yours sincerely, Bertrawd Russell Bertrand Russell. + RECEIVED JAN 2 1964 CENTRAL FILES