MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. DULLES FROM(Sanitized)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 14, 1958
• Content Type: FORM

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ZMORANDUM FOR: Tvxulles
Attached is the letter from Mr. Frank, Altschul
together with its attachment, concerning which you
asked on Sunday.
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FRANK ALTSCHUL
July 1, 1958
Dear Allen,
Just in case it has escaped your notice,
I am enclosing copy of a letter from Sukarno to the
New Statesman, published in the issue of June 28th,
which, whether inspired by Moscow or not, seems to me
extremely moving and morally unanswerable.
As I think the communication is of some
importance, I thought that before leaving for the
West I should call it to your attention.
With kindest regards, I am,
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
2430 "E" Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C.
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/lie have received the following communication from President Sukarno of Indonesia.
Sta, - We in Indonesia followed with absorbed civilisation as agents forerunners of dthe future; we
interest the correspondence of Earl Russell, Mr see you as Krushchev and Mr Dulles concerning the H- I am writing this letter on the occasion of the
bomb. We also watch with some relief the. tide of anti-H-bomb week in Indonesia. Already, outside
mass protest growing in some of the hydrogen- my official residence, thousands of people are
armed countries. I feel that the voice of an Asian gathering. Do not think that they are Communists
should be heard on this matter. Therefore, or Communist dupes. They are ordinary people,
although uninvited, I am writing to you. I am worried and wondering about their future, hope-
writing from Djakarta, a city near the middle of ful that their simple lives will not be ended and
Asia, the continent chosen as the atomic and their hopes ruined by mistakes they did not
hydrogen testing ground. make, but by distant people to whom they owe
The war-time victims of the atomic bomb were nothing. This anti-H-bomb week has been
Asians; it is scientifically indicated that the peace- arranged in connection with the series of tests in
time victims of hydrogen bomb testing are mostly Eniwetok. In terms of fall-out, that is in our back-
Asian. It is quite time that Asian voices were yard. How many Asians will die as a result of
heard on this matter. It is true that the choice of those tests? Can the scientists tell us?
life or nuclear death is not in our hands, but at The tenets of moral law compel us to protest.
least we have the right and duty to speak and Three years ago, the Bandung Conference `con-
protest. It is our future no less than yours which sidered that disarmament and the prohibition of
is at stake. experimentation and use of nuclear and thermo
of war are imnerative to save
As a man, a rather, an rlzjiail alto
being made in the image of God I am appalled at mankind and civilisation from the fear and pros-
the cynicism of those who wield atomic weapons. pect of wholesale destruction'.
They speak of saving their forms of civilisation, We still believe that a firm and assured peace
yet their policy is based on the determination to is necessary for us in order that our peoples
destroy, if they conceive it necessary, that civilisa- can reconstruct these Asian states. We cannot
tion. And, of course, that destruction would not impose peace upon the world, but we demand
be confined to themselves. The nature of nuclear the right to be heard and consulted. The Bandung
warfare means that there could be no neutrality Conference further appealed that, `pending the
in such a clash. We, too, are inevitably scheduled total prohibition of the manufacture of nuclear
for the nuclear incinerator if your `fail-safe' weapons, all the powers concerned should reach
civilisation should go wrong. It is a fearful agreement to suspend experiments with such
thought that the future of the world rests upon weapons'. Three years later, only one power has
the proper functioning of a thermionic valve done Whatevjust er the reasons for wthat action,
somewhere in the Arctic.
D__?__ similar action by other powers.
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and moral bankruptcy. The thousands of people who are now gathered
The West is facing a moral crisis. If there are any utside Merdeka Palace may be politically un-
future generations, what will be their verdict o
this second half of the twentieth century? s
on ophisticated (although no more so than a eeting in a western country), but they are not
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ful, have atomic bombs to flourish. However, genera
would be most unwise to disregard Asian opinion. There can be no question now of the West giving
In all sincerity, I tell you that we are growing in- moral leadership to Asia. Your moral leadership
creasingly resentful of the present situation. has, for us, meant first colonialism and now the
Asians are the chief victims of the West's failures philosophical, moral, political and social bank-
f a nuclear arms-race.
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mined that the other shall not maintain a lead m science or p
retaliatory or offensive power. This is a fact of One tenth of the treasure and skill used in
political life. This situation will continue so long making your hydrogen weapons could transform
as their ideologies remain vital. my country. We are still in a pre-industrial stage
In this situation, we of Asia are little but pawns of development. We know that the engines which
in the game. We do not, and for this I am grate- drive . an atomic submarine can drive electric
rs We know which we prefer.
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of what they consider to be their vita mteres It is ex p our
Neither power is prepared to jeopardise itself nor complete moral bankruptcy. p y y
forsake any possible advantage. Both are deter- task to .utilise the skill and technique of: your
ceful purposes.
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powers are prepared towage nuclear warmoeience It is Masi LU . =v= ?_?~ ?- _ _ __
1 ' is Communist alike to draw back from the edge of
consulted and the unborn.
. , L_~L ,,.,~lPar Aenv von the right to cause cancer in our children.
the tenets of moral law. This I fully accept, JUL sthe ant- o ,
as I accept the great political and emotional im- problem, then it probably deserves to perish. It
pact of the American Declaration of Indepen- must be realised that this now is not only a
dence and of the Communist Manifesto. What problem of security, but a problem of morality,
cannot be accepted is a wilful perversion of moral personal and international.
law, a perversion whose weight falls upon the un- We utterly deny the right of the West to con-
tinue imperilling us and our future. We utterly
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that the creed of the United States is based on . If western civilisation, both the Communist and
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claimed its victims, probably running into scores You in the West are causing more gaps between
1- and still unborn. You humanity; you are also losing the battle for the
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have abrogated to yourselv
belong to the Almighty; you have already ensured
that the sins of the fathers-your sins-shall be
visited upon the children. Believe me in this con-
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