New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-03
Zionists Greet
Einsteill, Here
For Palestine

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thence to the Hotel Commodore, where
the four visitors will stay for a time.
The whole East Side was decorated
with Zionist and American flags and
crowds lined the streets to greet the
members CT the Zionist committee.
Theory Puzzles Wife
Early in the morning, when the Rot
terdam arrived, newspaper men were
unable to get Professor Einstein to talk
at all. Mrs. Einstein, who speaks Eng
llsh, was asked about The theory and
replied:
MY husband has told ME the theory
great many times. But it is all dim
TO me-"
Later in the cabin of the John f.
Hylan the famous physicist, who is
broad houldered and above the aver
age IN height, consented to answer a
few questions.
When did you first being to specu-
late about the question %
Approximately sixteen years ago"
he replied. "The theory consists of two
phases. The first phase took me seven
years, the second about eight or nine
years"
What caused You to speculate on
this theory?'
First" said Professor Einstein, slow
~, the question of the expansion Of
light through space; second, study of
the effect of gravitation on various
bodies, such as the fact that an iron
ball and a wooden ball of the same size
fall with the same velocity irrespective
Of weight"
This" he added as sort of amplif-
cation, els the theory Of acceleration."
why were men of science opposed
to your theory when you first made it
| known"
mo men Of science" he replied, en-
phaszing the last word, were against
the theory"
"But there was some opposition p
YES" was the quiet reply, "but that
was purely political. Even the physi-
cists who opposed my theory did so for
political reasons-in my opinion, Of
| course"
What do you mean when you say
! the opposition was political?"
"Anti-Semitism," was the scientists
answer. Because I am Jew"
"Can it be said with accuracy that
your theory is step further in physics
than Newton's law of gravitation Z"
II believe" he replied chat it is a
| step further in defniteness as we'll as a
step further in method"
"Of what Importance is your discov-
cry that light bends when it strikes
points of gravitation?"
at is merely criterion of the proof
Of my theory. 1t shows that the pre-
vious theory was wrong and estab-
| fishes the accuracy of NINE" was the
reply.
Then he explained that his mission
in this country was to help arouse in
terest in the formation of university
| IN pa1oc{ino of which ho hnroc 70 1oC
| turc, and said that he probably would
lecture at Princeton first, it being the
| first American university to invite him.
! He said he was not definitely connected
with any European universities, al
though he is d member of the Academy
of Science in Berlin and is also con-
nected with the University Of Leyder
Plan of Mission Outlined
DR.. Weizman, explaining the purpose
of the committees mission, said It
try toward the establishment Of a
Jewish homeland in Palestine by the
establishment of universities, the
building Of roads, colonization, electri-
fcaton and the general development
of the land.
81 am not prepared to say" he said
in answer to question, chow the
British government is disposed toward
the creation of Jewish state in Pales-
| tine. But what we want first is to
make emigration to Palestine in large
numbers possible and to develop the
land. and then perhaps q state will
grow up naturally"
He said the present Jewish popula-
ton Of Palestine was 100000 and i'm.
migrants were arriving at the rate Of
| 1000 month, chiefly from what was
| .o. a.. pvcctoD