An editorial attack on Professor Albert Einstein is made today in Lord Rothermere’s Evening News, which calls on the scientist to cancel his plans to address a mass meeting at Albert Hall next week on the German situation. The paper couples its attack with outspoken approval of Nazi aims under the pretext that they are suppressing communism. Professor Einstein is attacked for his pacifist activities and his alleged communist associations.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, noted statesman, who is scheduled to address the meeting, is also subjected to the Evening News’ criticism as is Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, Professor Einstein’s British host. Sir Austen is denounced for associating with “Reds”, and Commander Locker-Lampson ridiculed for utilizing Professor Einstein for purposes of self-publicity. Photographs showing him bearing arm at his estate for the purpose of defending Einstein from threatened Nazi Fehmic attacks are held up for derision by the paper.
The paper asserts that the meeting will not do any good either to Anglo-German relations or to the German Jews. In any case, it declares, Professor Einstein, as a pacifist with communist associations, is not the right man to plead the case of the German Jews.
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