The fact that Professor Albert Einstein has been appointed by the French Minister of Education to a special chair in the Colege de France has aroused the extreme ire of the perfume magnate, Francois Coty.
In the anti-Semitic campaign carried on by M. Coty in his newspapers, he hurls the accusation of communism not only at the Jews but especially at Professor Einstein and the Minister of Education, and protests against the “scandalous” act of appointing “a German-Jewish Bolshevik to the Colege de France”.
The result of the libel action brought against M. Coty by the Union of Jewish Ex-Soldiers, which will come up in court next week, is anticipated with much interest because it is the first time that the inciting articles which he sponsored in L’Ami du Peuple and Figaro could be taken to court. In those articles the Jewish veterans and the Jewish sport organizations in France were accused of being merely disguised revolutionary organizations.
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