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...Einstein Issue...
Peanuts & Meteors. The total annual research budget for all U.S. universities before the war was some $30 million-peanuts compared to the $135-175 million the military are now prepared to spend. Both the Army & Navy, spurred by the results derived from the work of such theorists as Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford et al., are thoroughly sold on fundamental science. They are building cyclotrons and betatrons, signing up astronomers, chemists, physiologists, botanists, branching out into such unmilitary studies as meteors, the rare earths and plant cells...
...Einstein is probably happiest among children, with whom he loses all his shyness and whom he keeps in gales of laughter. His kindness to children is proverbial. One little Princeton girl used this to good advantage: she got him to do her arithmetic homework for her. When suspected, she confessed simply: "Einstein...
...Einstein was once violently pacifist. In 1930 he wrote: ". . . That vilest offspring of the herd mind-the odious militia. . . ." After Hitler, his thoughts became somewhat more martial. He is also a Zionist ("The Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew"), an internationalist ("Nationalism is the measles of mankind"). Einstein claims that he is a religious man ("Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling"). But he does not believe in the immortality of the soul...
Blast Shock. Last week Professor Einstein seemed suffering from blast shock from the bomb he had fathered. In the New York Times he warned Americans that "There is no foreseeable defense against atomic bombs. . . . Scientists do not even know of any field which promises us any hope of adequate defense." The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, of which Einstein is chairman, frantically appealed for $200,000 to educate people to "a new type of thinking ... if mankind is to survive and move toward a higher level...