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I wish I could really tell you how much pleasure your
letter gave me -- still gives me. I first read it on the train when I was
leaving
It gave me a better idea of V-E Day in
I began this letter by dictation, Dear Mrs. Priestley, because the right hand which was hurt so badly five years ago had succumbed to a long spell of damp weather and gone stiff on me. I can never write anything—not even a letter, except I do it with a pen.
It will be wonderful if you can come, here, to New York this summer winter. But here, too, you will find a
changed world, To be sure there is "plenty" of everything—except good
food—but so long as there is plenty of
NORTHEAST HARBOR
MAINE
are were made hideous in the process of
manufacturing the unspeakably frightful atomic bomb. Miles and miles of
hideous cement
necessary necessary as
"heavy water."
NORTHEAST HARBOR
MAINEthan the destruction of form or substance.
Every bomb is an experiment:—will it be effective in an area of fifteen
square miles, or twenty? Only experiment will tell. So he we need the deserts. Maybe that was what
deserts were made for. These experiments are getting dangerously near the
Rainbow Bridge country. As
for the "weapon"—Good God, to call that a weapon!—it hath the eldest primal curse upon it. The
victory it produces is not a victory of arms, and the result of it will be
that your people and my people will have to police a hundred islands for a
hundred years—and one on one of these
islands, you may be sure, the Japs will be making atomic bombs,
I write you these ugly details because you and I truly loved the