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Albert Einstein — Part 14
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ideaire for isolationism may be,”
\Dr, Einstein added, “it remains no
leas disastrous to Rusala and to all
other nations.”
"The Soviet acientists' open letter
‘criticizing Dr. Einstein was pub-
(lished in The New Times of Mos-
cow on Nov. 28, 1947. Their
was reported in 2 Moscow dispateh
to The Associated Press ‘published
in THE NEW Yor TIMES,
The open letter was signed by
Sergei Vavilov, president of the|”
Academy of ‘Sciences of the
US8g.: A. N. Frumkin, director
of the*Collatd-Electrochemical In-
stitute of the Academy, Moscow;
A. F. Ioffe, director of the Phyaico-
Chernical Institute of the Academy,
Leningrad, and N. N. Semyonov,
director of the tnatitute of Chemi-
cai Physica of the Academy, Mos
jcow. - ot
Published by Atomlo Scientists
1 Dr, Einstein's reply is published].
‘and the Soviet scientists’ open let-
ter reprinted in the February issue
of the Bulletin of’ the Atomic
Scientists, published by the Atomic
&cientists of Chicago.
In their letter the Soviet scien-
‘tists asserted that supporters of
world government” were “widely
sing allegedly radical phrases to
e effect that state sovereignty in
6 atom age has allegedly e
{@ survival of old times.”
\. ‘They attacked this on the ground
‘that such ideas were promoted at
'the origin of the League of Na-
Adons and that they represented’
‘the “imperialist” aims of “capi-
‘talist monopolists.” Until the Bol-
ghevik revolution Russia, they as-
serted, was dependent economically
and politically on “world capitalist
monopolies.”
Through the Bolshevik Revolu-
tion Russia achieved independence,
which its people defended in civil»
war battles “against a bloc of
perialist statea” and, in the sec-
a World War, against “German|!
fascist invaders,” they argued.
“Now the advocates of @ ‘world
perstate’ invite ua to surrender
independence voluntarily in
the name of a certain ‘world gov-|.
jernment,' which, with a higi
‘gound| trademark, conc!
{world domination of capital!
| monopolies,” they declared,
Idea of “Little Assembiv” Hit
tion | ,
ity not only over the armed forces
but also over all the channels of
educatiqn and information aswell
over the economic existence of
every single citizen. .
"I aay this merely to indifate
that socialism as such canno} be’
considered the solution to Load
cial problems but merely as a}
framework within which such s
solution is possible.”
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