UNCLASSIFIED Pa TEXT OF TELEGRAM February 5, 1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower The White House Washington, D. 12:30 P.M. C. We urgently ask you to meet with a group of sincere and concerned citizens to consider cessation now of nuclear bomb explosions by the United States government. Several times during the past year we have made this request, without receiving acknowledgement of our plea. January 8, 1958 we stated in a letter to you that four of us intend to sall a small vessel into the Eniwetok nuclear testing area of the Pacific by April 1. The crew--Albert Bigelow, William Huntington, George Willoughby and David Gale--will sail from San Pedro, California the morning of February 10, in an effort to halt what we feel is the folly and delinquency of our government in continuing actions which threaten the well being of all men. We plead, human family, as fellow citizens and as fellow members of the for a conference with you. The voyage of The Golden Rule will spealc to the hopes of millions here, Europe, Asia and Africa. and in It may have international repercussions. We, and the crew of The Golden Rule, would rejoice at the international good-will which would result if you proclaimed now the end of nuclear testing by the United States. Your decision would open the doors of hope to the people of the world. Signed: Lyle Tatum, Chairman Lawrence Scott, Coordinator for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons 2006 Walnut Street Philadelphia 3, Telephone: -~il- Pennsylvania RIttenhouse 6-2540 ~~