Prof. Albert Einstein and Dr. Harold, C. Urey, the atomic scientist, today made public statements condemning the Soviet drive against Jews. The statements were sent by the two leading scientists to the New Leader, a weekly publication in New York, which has been fighting Communism for many years. Prof. Einstein said: “It goes without saying that the perversion which manifests itself in all the official trials staged by the Russian Government, not only that in Prague, but also the earlier ones since the second half of the thirties, deserves unconditional condemnation. The most appropriate step would be, in my opinion, a kind of corporate condemnation from the side of recognized authorities in the field of science and scholarship. The advantage of such action would be that it would be obviously independent from politics.”
Dr. Urey declared: “In the ‘workers’ paradise of the U.S.S.R. gross injustices are done intentionally by government officials, directed by men with cast-iron hearts and minds at the v ry top. No need to read the evidence. There isn’t any. But I protest these crimes and I hope others do, even though one expects that the protest will fall on the deafest ears in the whole world.”
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