The City Fathers of the German capital are the object of scorn and ridicule in the metropolitan press over the embarrassment they caused Professor and Mrs. Einstein by presenting them with a house of which they could not take possession.
The newspapers commenting today on the disclosure that the house given the Einsteins on the occasion of the scientist’s fiftieth birthday was occupied under a five year lease, termed the gift a “relative” presentation. The same term is applicable the papers say, to the new gift of a piece of land which is inaccessible “except by aeroplane.” The papers urge the municipality to make good the empty gesture, otherwise Einstein will be compelled to acquire a house at his own expense.
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