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Typed letter signed ('A. Einstein') to A.C. Robbins, 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, 6 February 1951.
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)
Typed letter signed ('A. Einstein') to A.C. Robbins, 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, 6 February 1951.
In English. One page, 220 x 165mm. Provenance: by descent.
On George Bernard Shaw, and criticising Western anti-communist foreign policy. Einstein acknowledges the gift of some works about Shaw from Robbins: 'I always admired the clarity and luminosity of his style and the courage and honesty characterizing everything he did. I believe there is no other man in our epoch with such a sharp critical mind and his humor makes him really irresistible'. He goes on to criticise Western foreign policy with regard to China and Russia: of the USA he comments 'It is quite a misfortune that so much power has fallen into the hands of reckless and – it seems to me – inexperienced adventurers'; and in relation to the Korean War in the wake of the Chinese intervention in October 1950, the 'Chinese may have been formally the aggressors but not de facto. In reality they were brought into a position that no other choice was left to them. The analogous method is obviously being used to provoke Russian "aggression" by arming Germany and Japan'.
Typed letter signed ('A. Einstein') to A.C. Robbins, 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, 6 February 1951.
In English. One page, 220 x 165mm. Provenance: by descent.
On George Bernard Shaw, and criticising Western anti-communist foreign policy. Einstein acknowledges the gift of some works about Shaw from Robbins: 'I always admired the clarity and luminosity of his style and the courage and honesty characterizing everything he did. I believe there is no other man in our epoch with such a sharp critical mind and his humor makes him really irresistible'. He goes on to criticise Western foreign policy with regard to China and Russia: of the USA he comments 'It is quite a misfortune that so much power has fallen into the hands of reckless and – it seems to me – inexperienced adventurers'; and in relation to the Korean War in the wake of the Chinese intervention in October 1950, the 'Chinese may have been formally the aggressors but not de facto. In reality they were brought into a position that no other choice was left to them. The analogous method is obviously being used to provoke Russian "aggression" by arming Germany and Japan'.
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