A Jewish university or institution in this country or abroad may eventually receive the world famous “Pax Mundi” collection of 1,025 autographs on the subject of world peace, Joseph Schlang, noted collector and philanthropist, said today.
Mr. Schlang acquired the collection at auction yesterday for $18,500. He plans to give the collection, insured at $250,000, wide public exposure through exhibition in museums, universities and other institutions, and by publication of some of the documents in magazines and newspapers.
After that, he said, he would present the collection, assembled from 1925-1932 by the World League for Peace, to the United Nations, the United States, an institution such as the Harry S. Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, or a Jewish institution in this country where the documents could be applied to a study on means of establishing world peace.
One of the documents is the statement by Albert Einstein that “no human being has the moral right to call himself a Christian or a Jew if he is prepared to systematically murder on the orders of any superior authority, or to allow himself in any way to be misused in the preparations for or service of such an undertaking.”
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