Re: Anyone ever read this Einstein book?



John Savard wrote:

The problem was that he didn't just visit.

There was such a public outcry at this time at his intention to visit
Poland that what he *instead* ended up doing was spending the rest of
his life there. And he was aware that would happen on his way there.


What has me thinking poorly of him is not the fact that he visited the
country, but his bizarre statement that he was glad to have been
ignorant of the true nature of Communist rule in Poland.

If he had known ahead of time, he could have avoided all this fuss - and
continued to live his life in a free country.



....that hounds you out of it and takes away your citizenship for planning to visit the wrong place apparently.
I would have expected crap like that out of the the U.S. in the postwar years, but thought that Canada might have been a bit more tolerant. It would seem to me that your politics is related a lot more to what's in your mind than in what nation your feet happen to be standing at any particular moment.
There was an interesting article about all this published in Canada in 1999:
http://www.aetherometry.com/unified_field/infeld_ottawa_citizen.html
He and Tsien Hsue-shen would have had a lot to talk about if they ever met.
Both were chased out of free countries and into communist ones based upon suspicions that they were communists.
A really nice case of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"America- love it, or we'll make you leave it." ;-)

Pat
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