Cleaver thanks BR for his letter of 20 July, which was sent to his friend Lewis Waddilove. Waddilove passed the letter onto Cleaver as Cleaver had already received a letter from Wayland Young.

He writes that many of the trustees have heard of the Pugwash Movement through Dame Kathleen Lonsdale. "The work already done and the standing of the people associated with it leaves little doubt here as to the value of these gatherings particularly in the East/West sense. So there will be no hesitations in the minds of my trustees as to the importance of the Pugwash Movement."

"The general problem which your application is likely to raise here is that of resources,—not only in a financial sense but in the extent to which the amount of work with which the trust as a whole can maintain an intelligent and lively contact is bound to be limited. We are already pretty widely stretched."