Distinguished pacifist leaders such as Professor Albert Einstein, the noted scientist, are in danger of having their rights to leave Germany withdrawn in accordance with a new practice introduced by the government of Chancellor Adolph Hitler.
The new government has adopted the principle of withdrawing the passports of such citizens as it deems have hurt the German cause through their activities abroad.
This new principle has already been applied to Hellmuth von Gerlach and Karl von Ossietzky, leaders of German liberalism and the pacifist movement in Germany, whose passports have been withdrawn.
Professor Einstein, who is now in the United States, is an outstanding pacifist leader of Germany.
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