The embarrassment in which the Berlin City Council placed itself by offering a house which had been leased for five years to Prof. Albert Einstein on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday was ended by the City Fathers yesterday.
The City Council now presented the famous scientist with a piece of land near Lake Kaputh, where Prof. Einstein will build a small house for himself at his own expense.
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