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A-Book That call | Parallels © a aut Ominous By Samuel Sillen For American is a timely lesson TEinsl times, a/new biog- yank. It is the de against ientists there a Sa ei ~—taphy by Phili Jesson that the \ Communism is in reality’ a erusade against science. In ading the sec- ons dealing ith . Hitler's persecution of Einstein, we are sharply remind- ed of the cur- rent ant!-Com- ; muunist drive as expressed in the _ Rankin. Committee's persecution of Professor Harlow Shapley, { Bven in the years before #it- "Jer came to power, Einstein was attacked by the German reac- " thonaries as a purveyor of “Bol- shevism in physics.” The hate- agitators of the Gorman press denounced him for “conspiring” in Moscow with the Soviet gov- ernment even though the scien- tist never did visit the Soviet . Union. ‘ Einstein was not in Germany at the time of the Reichstag fire. ‘Hils absence was most fortunate. even though he had stayed clr of actual politics ali his life, th@ Nazis accused him of being th@ chief of a secret “commu- ic” movement. They tried to* show there was something shevistic” about his ‘sewn physics.” They said he repre- sented science.” “the Asiatle spirit in o 2 © We are reminded that “Bin- stein’s writings on the relativity ” theory were bummed publily in the square before the Btate Opera House in Berlin, together with other books, some of which were regarded as obscene, others as Bolshevistie.” —* When the scientist urged Hitler to make usd of cer~ tain Jewish scientists, the Pueb- rer replied: “Belleve me. ‘Those that are are not Bolsheviks openly are so in secret.” The Gestapo raided’ Kinsteln’s Willa at Caputh, where they as- serled the Communist Party had hidden stores of arms. They eon~ fiscated the villa, as well as Einstein's bank ‘aceount and other “possessions. Rinstein received this announcement from the German police: “The property was ebvi- eusly going to be used to finance ® Communist revolt.” Such passages forcibly remind one of the current agitation of the Schwellenbachs and J. Par- nell Thomases to outlaw the Communist Party and Communist ideas, The technique fs the same: the Big Lie. The object is the same: to ban all honest-thegla The Schwellenbach mentality meagre ¥ , { 3 is very much like that of a cer- tain New York alderman in days following World War L Al thet time, Piorello H, LaGuardia, who was president of the Board of Alderman, proposed that the visiting Einstein be given the - “freedom of the City of New York.” But one alderman pro- tested on “patriotic” grounds. ‘Be sald that Einstein, being = (German, was an “enemy alien” (Qin Germany, be was simultan- eously attacked by reaction as a. “pacifist”). Baid the slderman: “In 1009 the key of the city was ,. unfortunately given to Dr. Cook, ~ who pretended to have ‘discovered the North Pole.” How, be asked, WRKSR de we know, that Einstein really discovered the theory of rela- “yF. tivity? New York must not we AF FZ “taken in” by the foreigner. . ‘The alderman, needless to the Seat of may, was not only anti-Semitic ‘but anti-Communist. His spiris ° marches on in the corridors of Donan, ees. clipring from of the