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Albert Einstein — Part 1
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~ March, 931, 09) s tho foll-wing report o”
~_ptarces $9 400 “peaco_advosatca" at Chicago
"No onc mentioned relativity
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a 4s sy conviction rel .O. On. wo) s netual refusa _
"| “oft military service,’ he mid pee ogo is illopal, ~~
tut whenever a f2vormrcnt Agauand ars at actions Tron Rs
as eitizons, they havo a vury roal right to oppose ft anf wo
Tho Row York Tinos, Kovonbor £2,1931, carriod a signod
article by ALBERT EINSTEIN, ontitled, "Tho Roat to Peaoo®
af to tho sane effect as tho Einstein lettor to Hoywood Broun,
* tho Einstein spcoch translato¢ by Frau-Rosike Schwimnor, amt —~———~
_ tho Einstein spoceh at Chicagoe : . Lo.
In that esicned articlo, Albort Binatoin says:
__. _.. SBo wh® would fostor tho intornational outlook and _ .
oo gountcraet national ehauvinies rust -eoubat universal
military sorvico.” .
. His ontiro article 4s almng tho lincs alroady sct forth
4m the lottor and spoachos quoted, and in this signod article,
Albert Einstoin also n¢visos and roconmonds a bork, entitlud
War Acain Tonorrow, ty Ludwig Bauer (ancthor Touton propagandist
Yor tho @isarnaiont of ovorybody but the Germans an¢ tho
Comunists) which book, quoted in tho sanc issuo of tho Kew
York Tines, deolarcs:
“Ponee ean only. bo attaine? throurh compulsion, and only
thua oan the econonie erisis bo overcono. Thero 1s a curc
for our malady. It fa: To _overeono the Stato..." .
What foos Albort Einstoin noan his nilitant torns,
advising in@ividuals and groups to "rofuso to yield to
7" publié suthoritics,* to “bring upon thensclves a conflict
i with public authority;" that this "attitude is mvolutionary,"
5 at "on ouch acts of rcholiion!--which ho says aro
"unavoidable”---can tho “fcttorod in*ividual" broak "ochains®
that arc "founded in laws"?
?
7 What does ho Soan by advising “2 por eont"=--n hopoloss
i minority for any loritinate chanros in 1 rovernaont ehrouce
. ennstitutional sothods an - ‘poiiticel organization---to
resist and defy tho laws of thoir govornicnts?
What doos he moan by dcclaring boldly, "what I proposo
4s Ullogal” ane that to “counteract” national eaniviniea,
they nust “erbat” univorsal nilitary sorvico?
Is 4t not obvious thant Einstoin, in his enroful choice of
worts, nodns whit ho eays in pinin and wiletakabdlo terns,
that arc not figures 3f speoch at oll, but tho woll known
+ argon of the -Anarehtt¢ wert—Qerwvantet cresee
accomplish tho "shattoring® of tho State by “revolutionary
uprisings” (9 # tho War Rosistors intornsticnal eontonplates)
ant firet of all, tho “shattcring of the nilitary nachino
that Marx and Lonin both hold tho “preliminary condition"for
a communist rovolution?
AU ROSIKA SCEWIMMER-~-RINSTEIN'S "SAVING ANGEL"
Frau Rosike Schwirmor,whoge stand Albort Einstcin cormends
in hie lottor to Hoywood Broun, and who translated his spoosh
on "Militant Pacifisn," was tho principal in tho ease of
United States v.Rosika Schwimnor (279 U?S.6¢9) in which the
United States Suprono Court hold hor {nclicitie to Anorioan
citizenshipe :
In that Aocision, the Suprone Court rulody .
——"wrhat 4t Le tho duty of citizons by force of are to
defond our Governnont agninst all oncnics whonover :
neecssity 2risos is 9 funtonental principle of the 0001247
nstitution
oon tnleh tho people ordained and established the ¢
tution....This Court, in tho Scloctive Draft Low Cas
speaking through Chiof Justice White, sai¢ thant ‘tho vo: .
dust cevorngent an" ite, duty te the eitizon’- -
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