Einstein: His Life and Universe

. Einstein comment on the animated antiwar film,

Where Will You Hide?,

May 1948, AEA 28-817.

20

. Einstein interview with Alfred Werner,

Liberal Judaism

, Apr.–May 1949.

21

. Norman Cousins, “As 1960 Sees Us,”

Saturday Review

, Aug. 5, 1950; Einstein to Norman Cousins, Aug. 2, 1950, AEA 49-453. (A weekly magazine is actually published one week earlier than it is dated.)

22

. Einstein talk (via radio) to the Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, Oct. 25, 1942, AEA 28-571. See also, among many examples, Einstein unsent message regarding the May-Johnson Bill, Jan. 1946; in Nathan and Norden, 342; broadcast interview, July 17, 1947, in Nathan and Norden, 418.

23

. “Rankin Denies Einstein A-Bomb Role,” United Press, Feb. 14, 1950.

24

. Einstein to Sidney Hook, Apr. 3, 1948, AEA 58-300; Sidney Hook, “My Running Debate with Einstein,”

Commentary

(July 1982).

25

. Einstein to Sidney Hook, May 16, 1950, AEA 59-1018.

26

. “Dr. Einstein’s Mistaken Notions,” in

New Times

(Moscow), Nov. 1947, in Nathan and Norden, 443, and Einstein 1954, 134.

27

. Einstein, Reply to the Russian Scientists,

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

(the publication of the Emergency Committee that he chaired), Feb. 1948, in Einstein 1954, 135; “Einstein Hits Soviet Scientists for Opposing World Government,”

New York Times

, Jan. 30, 1948.

28

. Einstein, “Atomic War or Peace,” part 2,

Atlantic Monthly

, Nov. 1947.

29

. Einstein to Henry Usborne, Jan. 9, 1948, AEA 58-922.

30

. Einstein to James Allen, Dec. 22, 1949, AEA 57-620.

31

. Otto Nathan contributed to this phenomenon with the 1960 book of excerpts he coedited from Einstein’s political writings,

Einstein on Peace

. Nathan, as the coexecutor with Helen Dukas of Einstein’s literary estate, had a lot of influence over what was published early on. He was a committed socialist and pacifist. His collection is valuable, but in searching through the full Einstein archives, it becomes noticeable that he tended to leave out some material in which Einstein was critical of Russia or of radical pacifism. David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann, in their own anthology of Einstein’s political writings published in 2007,

Einstein’s Political World

, provide a counterbalance. They stress that Einstein “was not tempted to give up free enterprise in favor of a