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ay ie aay ‘ attacked by the German reac- _ tionaries as a purveyor of “Bol- ’ shevism in physics.” ' agitators of the G2irman press _ denounced him for “conspiring” " ernment even though the scien- : tist never did visit the Soviet imes, a’new biog- 7 meta phy by Philip rank. It is the lesson that the frusede egainst _ Einstein, we are , munist drive as expressed in the. : of Professor Harlow Shapley, a Book T rat | Reca ret, it 5 71% re rT woe Ominous Parallels ne By Samuel Sillen ; ’ gbow there was something “Bol- shevistic” about his “Jewish For American seientists there. ane “4s a timely lesson ¥ . Physics.” They said he repre- | His Life and sented “the Asiatic spirit in science.” - oe) ry 2 Communism is "We are reminded that “Ein- ‘in reality” a stein'’s writings on the relativity | crusade against — theory were burned publicly in science. In the square before the State Opera ading the sec- House in Berlin, together with ong dealing other books, some of which were With . Hitler's | regarded as obscene, others as Bolshevistic.” When the scientist urged Hitler to make used of cer- tain Jewish scientists, the Fueh- rer Teplied: “Belleve me. Those that are are not Bolsheviks openly are 30 in secret.” . The Gestapo raided’ Einstein's villa at Caputh, where they as- setted the Communist Party had hidden stores of arms. They con- fiscated the villa, as well as Einstein’s bank aceount and other “possessions. Einstein received fhis announcement from the German police: “Phe property was ebvi- eusly going to be used to finame ry Communist revolt,” Such passages forcibly remind one of the current agitation of the Schwellenbachs and J. Par- nell Thomases to outlaw the Communist Party and Communist ideas. The technique is the same: the Big Lie. The object is the same: to ban all honcstetheewgled, _ The Schwellenbach mentality persecution of sberply remind- ed of the cur- rent anti-Com- Rankin. Committee's persecution Even in the years before Hit- Jer came to power, Einstein was The hate- in Moscow with the Soviet gov- . Einstein was not in Germany af the time of the Reichstag fire. Wis absence was most fortunate. For even though he had stayed cl of actual politics ali his life, thé Nazis accused him of being th@ chief of a secret “commu- ic” movemnent. They tried to ~ GMI EAS Te Ms." | ho ? ‘ 4 a pe | . is very much like that of a cer. ‘tain New ‘York alderman in th days following World War I Ag - that thme, Piorello H, LaGuardia, “who was president of the Board York.” But one alderman pro- tested on “patriotic” grounds. We said that Einstein, being a German, was an “enemy alien” (in Germany, he was simultan- | eously attacked by reaction as a. “pacifist”). Baid the alderman: “In 1009 the key of the city was unfortunately given to Dr. Cook,” who pretended to have discovered tlipring from of the the North Pole." How, he asked, W.)RK"R de we know, that Einstein really ; tivity? New York must not pen SZ FZ “taken in” by the foreigner, discovered the theory of rela- The alderman, needles: rn the Seat of