PAULING, Linus.

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Autograph letter signed, and inscribed typescript speech, opposing the Vietnam War. Autograph letter signed from Linus Pauling, together with an inscribed typescript speech, fiercely setting out his anti-war views. The American chemist and peace activist Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994), one of the founders of molecular biology and quantum chemistry, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and for Peace in 1962, one of only four individuals to win more than one Nobel Prize, and the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes. Pauling writes to Ray Gardner (1919-1997), a journalist at the Toronto Star and himself a peace campaigner and sometime Chairman of the British Columbia Peace Council, in response to a request on his outlook for the coming decade, part of a series of letters sent to prominent individuals soliciting their views for publication in the Star.Pauling writes with a strident anti-war message, opposing the Vietnam War, and proposing a radical alteration of the economy from militarism to individual needs. "The time has now come when we must free the world of the evil of war. The power of complete mutual destruction by nuclear weapons has forced the United States and the Soviet Union to accept an unwritten treaty that they will work together and settle their disputes peacefully. But the backward and venal politicians cooperate with the small group of rich and powerful people who benefit from war and militarism in continuing the wicked war in Vietnam,

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