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ew mM eae wns eminent ° “wy gS .-6252 - so _ pe ‘ . 23 "fr tidal thing as the inguieition hearings, which 14 the Rawy-weshington and local 'Un-American! committees are a3 conducting against wachers, writers, artists and other 7 28 intellectuals. Le "Professor Einsteth got rid of the theoretical Ao .. Question with a few wordd.$ bit concerning thé reactionary fu > witch-hunts and tnquieitions, he answered in detail, with a 22 proud and courageous call:to American intellectuals. He 22 orders them to trefuse to testify’ for the inquisitors, 23 explaining that ‘it is a diggrace for an unblemished citizen . 24 to submit to such an inquisition, and that this kind of g 25 inquisition violates the spirit of the Constitution.' 26 27 _ “Professor Bindteit de suffieiently acquainted with : ‘28. etirrent, rampant American reaction to realize that an , 429 *° “Intellectual who refuses to. dnswer the tnguisitors may expect 30 ecohomic persecution and even jail. But he knows that ‘if L enough pecple are prepared to teke this serioue stop 220 {refusing to answer the inquisitors, in spite of threats and 33 dangers) they will be successful if they do not 'the intellectuals 34 of our country do not deserve better than the enslavement being 35 readied for them.' 36 : 37 "Albert Einsteints voice must and will be heard - pe: “throughout the world. But, primarily, it must be heard in 139 our country, in the United States, in 'the land of the free 80 and the home of the brave! which, under the poisonous : influence of McCarthyism and McCarranism, is being transformed By his call to 2 4tito the ‘land of the terrorized and persecuted’, 4 the American intellectuals, Professor Einstein has placed himssif at the head of the growing number of those who protest agsinst the witch-hunts. Fe has made it the urgent and noble job of American intellectuals to protect their own honor and liberties together with the honor of democratic america.” The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications", dated May 1), 1951, prepared end releasad by the Comittee on Un-American Activities, United States House ar Wachington, D.C., contains the follouving & £ eae tiene ele