Rotblat writes to BR regarding a society called "War on Want", established at Bristol and other universities, which allows young people to help the less fortunate, such as refugees and underdeveloped countries. Rotblat has been persuaded to become the president of this organization at Bristol, and he has suggested taking more serious and ambitious issues.

"With this preamble, I now come to the principal point of this letter. Would it be asking you too much to come and address a public meeting organized by this Society on an evening next term? It is asking a lot, and I thought I would mention it to you privately before the Society approaches you."

Powell encloses a copy of the Presidential Address to the World Federation of Scientific Workers he delivered in Warsaw the previous September (record 117339).