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Headline: Brains Also Under Ban

Publication Date: Friday, March 31, 1933
Historical Event: Albert Einstein Quits Germany, Renounces Citizenship
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Tags: Gannett full page downloadable; Refugees and Immigration; Early Acts of Persecution
Article Type: Editorial or Opinion Piece
Newspaper: The Courier-Journal
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Page Section and Number: 6
Author/Byline: --
Article Text: Dr. Albert Einstein, by common consent the world's most eminent intellectual, has taken the preliminary step to renouncing his German citizenship. A Jew, of Swiss nationality, he took the oath of allegiance when he because associated with the Prussian Academy of Science in 1914. Recently he inquired at Brussels of the German Consulate how he should proceed to divest himself of allegiance.

Dr. Einstein's action is coincident with the Nazis' anti-Jewish campaign, more in contempt than protest no doubt. Dr. Einstein's thoughts dwell in a realm above petty nationalistic considerations. But it signifies that the boycott includes brains no less than business. As degraded currency drives out good money, iniquituous poIltlcal measures drive out valuable elements of the population. America owes its start to fugitives from intolerable conditions.

This country offers its hospitality to the great savant. He is popular here, anyway, aside from the respect in which his learning is held. His future work is to be identified with a project for the promotion of scientific research in America, and his name should be on the honor roll of American citizenship.
History Unfolded Contributor: Steven B.
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