RELIGION OF PEACE IS EINSTEIN'S 1 Message oT Pacifism Given as Scientist Sails for Belgium NEW YORK, Mrrh IS (A. P-Professor Albert Einstein sailed for Belgium today without announcing any change In his plan to remain a voluntary exile from Germany for the present, Hi did, however, answer a barrage of question about War, peace, arms embargoes, capitalism and Socialism. The questions were hurled at him often two or three togetherby k salon full of men end women who had gone aboard the liner to see htm off, most of them peace advocates. With his eyee sparkling and his chastity hair in lis usual disarray, the lamotis scientist took the question es they came, pondered them, answered some In broken English, and gave hie more lengthy replies In German. Answers Posers flit Is e sample of the posers that greeted him ns soon as he was escorted Into the room full of enger admirers; "What, Dr. Einstein, should 4 young man do who believes in resistance to war, yet is faced with an attack upon his country?" The physicist smiled. "This Is Interesting." he betjnn. "Take Germany, lor instance, when the World War was done and Germany was helpless, she was not attacked. So It Is with other nations. If they will not derend themselves they will not be attacked." "But what of China?" someone asked. "Nothing has happened to China," Einstein replied. "Nothing will happen to China." "Then what will happen If Japan should attack the United States?" The scientist shrugged his shoulders and said; "There is nothing to indicate Japan will do that. 1 tell you peace has to be a religion, If you believe It, then you pass it on to an other and it grows until It Is an ir resistible Influence." A man in the party wanted to know if It were possible to entertain an Idea of peace unless capital-Ism Were abolished, "What is the opposite of capitalism?" the professor asked his questioner, and then continued: "It Is Socialism and you have seen for yourselves that under Socialism there has not been peace. Under capitalism we have received many benefits. Under Socialism tlxn-e ere also benefits. But neither guarantees against war. "What we must have Is security of life, for all men, and we can get this alone through regarding pacifism s a religion, one must be. lieve In It and accept it In the light of fail." Statement Applnmled There was a btitst of hand-clapping s he finished. "Should women support the arms embargo?" Another questioner Hsked. Einstein had some difficulty with this question, but after discussing it in German with his Impromptu translator, Frederick Kettner, of the Spinoza Centre of the Roerlch Society, he said quickly: "Yes, certainly,'1 In response to further questions he said one nation could cause others to disarm by leading the way, and he blamed present heavy armaments of Europe on the French Socialists. "They," he said, "thought it best to arm everybody." The liner on which Professor Einstein sailed, with his wife, is bound for Antwerp. From there the couple will go directly to Switzerland by way of France, rather than cutting through a corner of Germany, When the weather moderates they will return to Belgium and pend the late spring In Ostend,
