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tion Russia achieved independence, |. which Ita people defended in civil- .war battles “againat a bloc af ‘imperialist states” and, in the sec- \gnd World War, against “German ascist invaders,” they argued. | _“Now the advocates of a ‘world peretate’ invite us to surrender’ “thia independence voluntarily in ithe name of # certain ‘world gov- jemmment,’ which, with a hig’ wounding trademark, conc ‘world domination cf oapi Monopolies,” they declared. Idea of “Little Assembly” Hit . , American diplomacy, they ss- serted, waa engaged in an effort to turn the United Nationa into a j branch of the State Department, |For this reason, they said, it was | Pushing the creation of a “Little Assembly" which would bypass the Security Council on which the So- viet Union now had the power of vato. bd . - Dr, Einstein, in reply, sald that ane ahared the view of the Soviat jactentists “that a. socialist econ- omy possesses advantages which definitely counter-balance its dis- advantages whenever the manage- ment lives. up, at least to some extent, to adequate standards.” Capitaliam or free enterprise, he believed, would prove unable to check unemployment. or cyclical depression, He continued: “On the other hand, wa should not make the mistake of blaming capitalism for all existing social and political evils, and of assum- ing that the very establishment of would be able to cure all the social and political ills of bu- manity. . ger of such a belief lies, first, in the fact that it en- ; courages fanatical intolerance on athe part of all the ‘faithfuls' by Mag making a possible social method into « type of church which brands all those who do not belong to it as traitors or ag nasty evildoers. “Once this stage haa been reached, the ability to underatand the convictions and actions of the ‘tajthfuls’ vanishes completely, “Any government ia in itself an evil insofar ag jit carries within it the tendency to deteriorate inta’® tyranny. However, except for a very emali number of anarchists, everyone of us is convinced that civilized society cannot exist with- out a government. _ “In « healthy nation there is kind of dynamic‘ balance between the will of the people and the gov- ernment which prevents its degen- eration into tyranny. It ia obvious that the danger of such deteriora- tion ig more acute in a country in which the government has author- re te a