◆ SpookStack

; wos PATRIOT OORPORATION 7 i WO gackson Place s¥. ] Officers - . Washington, » a Mrs.Randolph Prothinghem, 3 FI President ,Brooklins ,Mas. § Mra.John Fremont 3111, Vice-President ,Boston. ‘Mrs. Lewis C.luoas, -%- Beeretary-Treasurer,. + - 2-7 Weshington,p.c, * ; Lowa 2 34 - Brighton,Mass.; Mr sf Prelorie day Cotten sa tons and she ~ 7 | ffiners ex-officio. : bd COPY OF CHARGES FILED AGAINST -ADMYSBIO 4 OF ALBERT EINSTEIN TO THE UNITED 3 ~ «Honorable A.Dana Hodgdon,Chiof MH Visa Division,Department of State, | ad Washington,D.C.. orn 7 . mee] Dean Sir: ne : wes It ie respectfully requested, in view of the on mandatory Alicn Exclusion Laws ef the United States, and re 4 the laws making 1t a folony for.any poraon imowingly % > ee assist or permit certain classcs ef inadmissible aliens > enter the United States, that the American Consul General * ise at Borlin, or Geneva, or any othor Amorican consular office “4 at which application by Professor Albert Einstoin for ‘a . <> 3%: passport visa may be made, bo instructed to refuse and with- 6 hold such passport visa to Professor Einstoing or, if euch «: laa assport visa has boen issued, to suspend or rovoko tho same, =. B Nn accordance with the laws and facts heroafter sct forth aa 39 and charged, under tho requiromont of Fodoral law making it 1! a duty of citizons undor ponalty of tho Jaw, to make known to propor authoritica cortain facts within tho kmowlofgo .- of such citizens. . co ‘ es: 3 1.WANDATORY PROVISIONS OF LAW IN THIS CASE . The mandatory provisions of law to which attontion 1 invited, and the duty of tho Dopartment of State. to enforce them, wore clearly set forth in the roply.of tho Stato Doparta. : mont, through Honorable Wiliiom R.Castio (thon Chiof-of:. a Western European Affairs, now Undcrsccretary of State) ‘to $0 lawyers for Countess-Michacl Karolyi. Tho matcriol parts 32 that State. Department ruling, datcd Novom' 1 $2 follow: TS Mg es eS 33. *,..The onse...i8 govorned by tho laws rolating to ¢ “4 admission of alicns to this country. Your attention 4 35 dircetcd particularly to the’ following ‘awe o: tke 367 subjects .....The Act of Osteo’ 16, 191€ St-- by tho Act of Juno 5,1920.en mi - --~. “The Dopartmont's action wad taken pursuant to the dutics imposed and the authority counforrod by those 7% lnwas"and it 4s, therefore, unobdle to comply with your request that a visa bo granted to Countess Karolyi." . PEND PAS It is submitted that as the law has not boon this rcepoct sinco the rcfusal of a passport wisa to Counts >.) ss Karolyi; and sinco the mandatory Alion Exelusion Yawse »3: doemed more applicable to Profcesor Albert Einstoial#<< they were to Countces Karolyi (whoso wise was Fo t, rathor undcr tho discrotionary Passport Contreg x ray 22,1938 as amendod by tho dot of arch Sy . by the then Soorctary. of Statc, now Ohiot Just: s Hughes, in the Karolyi ensc) tho *4utio#