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Pederal Burcrau of Investigation United States Department of Justice ro POST CFFICE BOX 812 te CHICAGO 90, ILLINOIS | avoust 21. 2945 ‘ — a " Fr Ff : RE: CINRAD bo i INTERNAL SECURITY - R wo pte so EFER 5 a4 4: ‘ Jf ° Dear Sir: e a The "Chicago Sun" for August 19, 1945, contained an artiole by FRAIK we SMOTHERS, which is here being quoted: A *The-&tomic Bomb Calls for World Government" te "The atomic bomb transcends all other news of G year. fay. Its use against Japan, I am convinced, was justified. But it signals the end of an age and the birth of a new age for which we are appallingly i111 prepered., The transition already was on, and proceeding fast. Man's harnessing of atomic energy vastly increases the pace. "One consequence is that the course of world government must be urgently speeded. The atomic bomb did not create the need for such government. When drafted, the San Franoisco Charter, in the minds of its wiser backers, was but a start toward essential world government. Jt was an epochal advance on the way but only that. Now, existence of power which, unloosed by any country, great or small, could in a flash render any peaceful nation vy prostrate - with millions of dead, its capital, sities end centers of learning destroyed - leaves safety for none without world government, RECORDED & INDEREC | /20-9Ho é 25-166 wn “Hen and women are tired today. Some, of high Perai gence _ have tended in these first weeks of facing the new, gargantuan problem, to give way to black pessimism; man has never kept pace socially and politically with his scientific advance; therefore he will not keep pace now, and will be destroyed. | } COPIES DESTROYED 2Si2hi fi |