Einstein: His Life and Universe

rigidly planned economy, least of all at the price of basic freedoms,” and they also emphasize the realistic and practical nature of Einstein’s evolution away from pure pacifism.

32

. Einstein to Arthur Squires and Cuthbert Daniel, Dec. 15, 1947, AEA 58-89.

33

. Einstein to Roy Kepler, Aug. 8, 1948, AEA 58-969.

34

. Einstein to John Dudzik, Mar. 8, 1948, AEA 58-108. See also Einstein to A. Amery, June 12, 1950, AEA 59-95: “However much I may believe in the necessity of socialism, it will not solve the problem of international security.”

35

. “Poles Issue Message by Einstein: He Reveals Quite Different Text,”

New York Times

, Aug. 29, 1948; Einstein to Julian Huxley, Sept. 14, 1948, AEA 58-700; Nathan and Norden, 493.

36

. Einstein to A. J. Muste, Jan. 30, 1950, AEA 60- 636.

37

.

Today with Mrs. Roosevelt,

NBC, Jan. 12, 1950, www.cine-holocaust.de/cgibin/gdq?efw00fbw002802.gd;

New York Post

, Feb. 13, 1950.

38

. D. M. Ladd to J. Edgar Hoover, Feb. 15, 1950, and V. P. Keay to H. B. Fletcher, Feb. 13, 1950, both in Einstein’s FBI files, box 1a, foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/einstein.htm. Fred Jerome’s book

The Einstein File

offers an analysis. Jerome says that when making Einstein the Person of the Century,

Time

refrained from noting that he was a socialist: “As if the executives at

Time

decided to go so far but no farther, their article makes no mention of Einstein’s socialist convictions.” As the person who was the magazine’s managing editor then, I can attest that the omission may indeed have been a lapse on our part, but it was not the result of a policy decision.

39

. Gen. John Weckerling to J. Edgar Hoover, July 31, 1950, Einstein FBI files, box 2a.

40

. See foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/einstein.htm. Herb Romerstein and Eric Breindel in

The Venona Secrets

(New York: Regnery, 2000), an attack on Soviet espionage based on the “Venona” secret cables sent by Russian agents in the United States, have a section called “Duping Albert Einstein” (p. 398). It says that he was regularly willing to be listed as the “honorary chairman” of a variety of groups that were fronts for pro-Soviet agendas, but the authors say there is no evidence that he ever went to communist meetings or did anything other than

lend his name to various worthy-sounding organizations, with names like “Workers International Relief,” that occasionally were part of the “front apparatus” of international Comintern leaders.

41

. Marjorie Bishop,“Our Neighbors on Eighth Street,” and Maria Turbow Lampard, introduction, in Sergei Konenkov,

The Uncommon Vision

(New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000), 52–54, 192–195.

42

. Pavel Sudoplatov,

Special Tasks

, updated ed. (Boston: Back Bay, 1995), appendix 8, p. 493; Jerome, 260, 283; Sotheby’s catalogue, June 26, 1988; Robin Pogrebin, “Love Letters by Einstein at Auction,”

New York Times