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Albert Einstein — Part 14
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tion Russia achieved independence,
which Its people defended in civi
war battles “against a bloc of
Apperielist states” and, in the sec-;
d World War, against “German
fascist invaders,” they argued.
“Now the advocates of a ‘world
iperatate’ invite us to surrender’
thia independence voluntarily in
‘the name of & certain ‘world gov-|
ernment’ which, with a higty|
ssounding trademark, —_ cone:
‘world domination of capi
TMaonopolies,” they declared.
| Ides of “Little Assembiy” Hit }
American diplomacy, they as-
serted, waa engaged in an effort
to turn the United Nationa into a
{branch of the State Department,
{For this reason, they ead, it was
pushing the creation of a “Little |
Assembly” which would bypass the |
Security Counctl on which the So-|
viet Union now had the power of
ry
Dr. Einstein, in reply, said that
fhe shared the view of the Soviet
actentista “that a. socialist econ-
Capitaliam or tree enterprise, he
believed, would prove unable to
check unemployment. or cyclical
depression, He continued:
socialism would be able to cure all
the social and political ills of hu-
manity.
“The danger of such a belief
lies, first, in the fact that it en-
part of all the ‘faithfuls’ by
making a possible social method
| into « type of church which brands
all those who do not belong to it/
aa traitors or as nasty evildoers,
“Once this stage has been|
reached, the ability to understand |
the convictions and actions of the
‘tajthtuls’ vanishea completely.
“Any government ia in itself an
jevil insofar ag jt carries within it
the tendency to deteriorate into
tyranny, However, except tor a| [im
very amali number of anarchists, | #4
everyone of us is convinced that
the will of the people and the gov-
ernment which prevents its degen-
eration into tyranny. It is obvious
that the danger of such deteriora-
tion is more acute in a country inf
which the government has author |
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