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Mere Weeks After Hitler's Rise to Power, Einstein Speaks on the Growing Global Chaos and Threat to Minorities: “The main thing is that minority groups should be allowed security in the community.” by Albert Einstein

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Title: Mere Weeks After Hitler's Rise to Power, Einstein Speaks on the Growing Global Chaos and Threat to Minorities: “The main thing is that minority groups should be allowed security in the community.”
Author: Albert Einstein
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 15/02/1933. He revises the typescript of his interview with the War Resisters League, of which he was Honorary Chairman, and calls out William Randolph Hearst and the head of the press and film empire in Germany, who aided Hitler’s rise On philosophy: “The intellect without the emotions is insignificant”; On racism: “The main thing is that minority groups should be allowed security in the community.” They ought to be “accepted with friendliness as equal members” On the press: He criticizes William Randolph Heart by name, but says “The freedom of the press is necessary, despite all the dangers or abuse that come with it.”. On pacifism and peace keeping: “A pacifist is one who believes in his heart that to go to war is beneath the dignity of a human being”, “Society needs some form of organization, for security and protection in international life”, and “An international police force…is almost absolutely necessary as one step toward achieving peace. Force, when used by an impartial third party to achieve law and order, it's not contrary to pacifism”. This document has never previously been offered for sale and was acquired by us from the family that has had it all this timeEinstein was well known as a pacifist until Hitler’s rise to power. In 1930, on his second visit to America, he joined the War Resisters League and accepted the office of Honorary Chairman. Einstein spoke to the organization that year, saying, “True pacifists must publicly declare in time of peace that they will not take up arms under any circumstances… even if only 2% of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.” The league then issued a pamphlet, “Einstein on War Resistance,” that was widely read and discussed.Meanwhile, back in Germany, the rising Nazi movement found a convenient target in Einstein and relativity, branding the latter “Jewish physics” and sponsoring conferences and book burnings to denounce Einstein and his theories. The Nazis even enlisted other physicists to denounce Einstein; “One Hundred Authors Against Einstein” was published in 1931. When asked to comment on this denunciation of relativity by so many scientists, Einstein replied that to defeat relativity one did not need the word of 100 scientists, just one fact.In December 1932 Einstein decided to leave Germany. The reason: it became obvious to him that his life was in danger. A Nazi organization published a magazine with Einstein’s picture and the caption “Not Yet Hanged” on the cover. There was even a price on his head. In January 1933, Einstein came to the United States to serve at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California as a visiting professor. The appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor took effect late that month, and Einstein decided he would not return to his home in Germany where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He would instead return to Europe and assess the situation from there. He and his wife Elsa returned by ship to Belgium in March 1933 to find that that their residences in Germany had been raided numerous times. Einstein accepted the fact that he could not return to Germany and turned in his passport to the German consulate; he also formally renounced his German citizenship. By the summer, Einstein learned that his name was on a list of assassination targets. He resided in Belgium for some months and then moved to England for a short period. On October 17, 1933, he returned to the US and took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in New Jersey. And there he remained until his death.On February 15, 1933, after Hitler had taken power but before Einstein learned that his homes had been raided, he granted an interview to the War Resisters League at the home of one of its officials, John Dorland. Dorland wanted the interview to be read aloud at the upcoming March 2 meeting of the members in Pasadena. He prepared a five page typescript of the interview and sent it to Einstein to review. As Dorland said in his cover letter to Einstein, “Would you be kind enough to read it, and if the answers misrepresent you in any detail, may we request that you revise it in such particular, as we are very anxious to have these correct.” He also asked Einstein's permission to read the interview aloud.This is the original typescript of the Einstein interview, sent to Einstein by Dorland, complete with Einstein’s handwritten notations. It is the only such annotated interview of Einstein that we have seen, and it covers important topics.On page one, Einstein makes it clear he was not ready to abandon his resistance to war. “The War Resisters,” he stated at the interview, “are doing a fine work. They have done more than any other peace group. A strong organized minority who have declared themselves absolutely against war is very powerful.” Question from Dorland. “Can we hope to convince everybody?” Answer: “Oh no, we cannot convince everybody, but we do not need to. One strong man is worth much and has great influence, Individuals thoroughly convinced and small groups working earnestly are of the utmost value.” Q: “In trying to arouse interest is it better to appeal to the intellect or the emotions?” A: “To both; the intellect without the emotions is insignificant.”On page two, Einstein states that “Public protests are very valuable”, as is control over munitions production. “The private munitions business is a great threat to the peace of the world and there should be government control. Public opinion is not yet awake to the atrocities of the munitions firms.” Then Dorland changes the subject to “race relations.” Einstein responded, “The main thing is that minority groups should be allowed security in the community.” Then Einstein hand writes in some thoughts. If they are not afforded such security, “they should isolate themselves from the rest of society, since they are not accepted with friendliness as equal members.” Then some fascinating free thoughts emerge. Clearly thinking of the Jews in Germany, he crosses out “It [insecurity] is not so bad” and instead says “They can achieve a healthy existence”. But thinking of the current situation, he finishes the thought by adding at least “Up until now!” He surely had less confidence about the future.On page three Einstein discusses the part to be played by international organizations. “The main thing is organization. Disputes will always come, but we must have other methods than war for settling them. Society needs some form of organization, for security and protection in international life.” Einstein then writes in, “Obligatory court of arbitration. Unconditional obligation of the states to accept their verdicts and enforce them.” He is then asked which is less threatening to the progress of peace, a professional army or universal military conscription. Einstein answers “The professional army is better because then only the professional soldiers become imbued with the military spirit.” Asked about Japan leaving the League of Nations, he hand writes “It is better to let Japan secede from the League of Nations rather than have it [the League] compromised by a bad compromise.” Sooner let them go than compromise principles to keep them in. Lastly he is asked for his definition of a pacifist, and responds, “A pacifist is one who believes in his heart that to go to war is beneath the dignity of a human being.”On page four, Einstein continues by saying that a pacifist “must be active in the prevention of war; that is, he must support justice, arbitration, and conciliation.” In terms of having some international force enforce the peace, Einstein is in favor. “an international police force, as suggested by the French, is almost absolutely necessary as one step toward achieving peace. Force, when used by an impartial third party to achieve law and order, it's not contrary to pacifism. This international force would exist only for a transition, perhaps 20 years.” Dorland then asks Einstein, “What do you think of the control over public opinion by the press?” Einstein in the interview stated it was not good, but in this document he elaborated further. “The freedom of the press is necessary, despite all the dangers or abuse that come with it. This is the point with the biggest dependence of the peace movement (peace work) on economic circumstances. (Hearst in America and Hugenberg in Germany demonstrate this fact with frightening clarity)”. Alfred Hugenberg was the head of a press and film empire in Germany who aided Hitler’s rise. Einstein’s comparison of William Randolph Hearst with him is interesting. He clearly feels that the press in the wrong hands, motivated by profit and political power, was a danger. The next question was “Are religious bodies a power for peace?” Einstein’s answer: “Not greatly now.”On the final page Einstein states his belief that, though no one can change human nature, “we can change traditional institutions.”This document is full of gems: “The intellect without the emotions is insignificant”; “The main thing is that minority groups should be allowed security in the community.” They ought to be “accepted with friendliness as equal members”; “Society needs some form of organization, for security and protection in international life”; “A pacifist is one who believes in his heart that to go to war is beneath the dignity of a human being”; “An international police force…is almost absolutely necessary as one step toward achieving peace. Force, when used by an impartial third party to achieve law and order, it's not contrary to pacifism”; and “The freedom of the press is necessary, despite all the dangers or abuse that come with it.”This is a great and fascinating rarity. A search of public sale records going back over 40 years turns up only one other example of an Einstein annotated interview, nor have we ever had one.It wasn’t long in 1933 before the intensity of the threat from Naziism convinced Einstein that only force would be a deterrent a Hitler triumph. He resigned from the War Resisters League later in 1933. To Einstein, pacifism became not an absolute concept, but one that had to be re-examined depending on the magnitude of the threat.

Hiddenness by TUTTLE, RICHARD; Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei; RICHARD T

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Title: Hiddenness
Author: TUTTLE, RICHARD; Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei; RICHARD T
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Description: 1987. TUTTLE, Richard. Hiddenness. By Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge. Illustrated with original prints, including lithograph, silkscreen and hand-stamped monotypes by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 380 x 255 mm, bound in publisher's concertina blue paper over boards in the original folding case. New York: The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum, 1987. One of the most successful of the Whitney publications. The book combines imaginative mis-en-page with Richard Tuttle's dazzling illuminations that comprise a variety of print techniques, silkscreen, monotype and colour lithography. One of an edition of 120 copies signed by the artist and the author. A fine copy.

A Cruise on the R. M. S. P. "Arcadian" [cover title] by ARCADIAN, Cruise Ship – DAVEY & HACKNEY, photographers

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Title: A Cruise on the R. M. S. P. "Arcadian" [cover title]
Author: ARCADIAN, Cruise Ship – DAVEY & HACKNEY, photographers
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: Some rubbing to binding. Photos with some age toning and occasional fading, but generally well preserved and crisp
Description: London: Davey & Hackney, 1912. Some rubbing to binding. Photos with some age toning and occasional fading, but generally well preserved and crisp. Album containing 39 mounted black and white photographs, the first nine 11 1/4 x 7 inches (or vice versa); the remaining 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches (or vice versa). Each photo is captioned in the lower margin of the print. In a padded leather album, titled in gilt on the front cover. The photos, presumably assembled in this album to commemorate a single voyage, show: profile view of the ship from port, the dining room, social hall, smoke room, writing room, gymnasium, promenade deck, swimming bath, Captain Custance, dancing deck, boat deck, Southampton docks, deep sea trawlers, playing cricket, Leith, thread the needle race, tennis, boxing. The final picture shows the "Arcadian" in a fjord in Norway. SS Arcadian was a Barrow-in-Furness built passenger liner constructed in 1899 by Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company (originally named Ortona). She was renamed Arcadian in 1910, after the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company acquired her in 1906. She started her first world cruise in January 1912, the largest dedicated cruise ship in the world at that time. These photos document her use as a cruise ship, so must date from circa 1912. In World War I she served with the Royal Navy and was sunk by a U-boat in 1917. On 15 April 1917 Arcadian was en route from Thessaloniki (Salonika) to Alexandria with a company of 1,335 troops and crew and escorted by a Japanese Navy destroyer. Shortly after completing a boat drill, while 26 miles north east of the Greek island of Milos, Arcadian was hit by a single torpedo from the German submarine SM UC-74 and sank within six minutes with the loss of 279 lives. A contemporary newspaper article described how four of Arcadian’s overcrowded lifeboats were successfully lowered before she sank. Some of the dead were cooks and stokers who were working below decks. The escorting destroyer had two torpedoes launched at her while she was attempting to rescue men from the water; survivors reported that she had lowered three of her own boats while going “at full speed”. More survivors, who had been clinging to a raft, were rescued at midnight by the Q-ship HMS Redbreast. Among the dead was the eminent bacteriologist, Sir Marc Armand Ruffer, who was returning to Alexandria after advising on the control of an epidemic among troops based at Thessaloniki (Wikipedia).

White to Play. A Collection of Complete Block Two-Movers by Alain Campbell White (1880-1951)

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Title: White to Play. A Collection of Complete Block Two-Movers
Author: Alain Campbell White (1880-1951)
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 123 pages with diagrams and indexes. Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. A C White's Christmas series with Christmas greetings tipped in. (Betts: 35-3) First edition.100 examples of blocks by various composers, classified in 4 main sections: Block (sub-divided by king key, queen key, etc. Changed-mate blocks (sub-divided by type of key). Added-mate blocks (sub-divided by type of key). Block-threats (sub-divided by type of key). There is a 10 page introduction by White, solutions and an index of composers.Condition:Old book seller's tag to front inner hinge paste down, spine ends bumped else a very good copy.

Samoana Fortune Telling Cards

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Title: Samoana Fortune Telling Cards
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Condition: Good. Dust soiling, toning. A little water staining to box.
Description: Sonoma, California: Noolcam Company, 1950. Good. Dust soiling, toning. A little water staining to box.. A complete set of "Samoana Fortune Telling Cards", a delightfully kitschy 1950s parlor game created for the American market featuring a pin-up style Samoan woman on the box and claiming to be "founded on South Pacific Native Symbols". This set is complete with all forty-five (45) cards, printed directions sheet, and illustrated box. To play, one person shuffles the deck and another pulls cards and displays them in different "variations" to tell the first person's fortune. The directions sheet tells the meaning of each card's symbol, such as: Peacock (Pride); Devil (Calamity); Volcano (Excitement); and Dog (Fidelity). A number of the cards are clearly more American symbols than traditional Samoan ("Factory Chimneys"...?!), but somehow that makes the deck more charming, and paints a picture of the kinds of people who would have played with the set (i.e., Americans enchanted by the West's exoticized ideal of the South Pacific, not actual Samoans). Also includes possible "combinations", which foretell events such as marriage (when the cards 15, 30, and 11 appear in a row). Each card measures approx. 3.5" by 2.5", the directions sheet measures approx. 10.75" by 4", and illustrated box measures approx. 3.5" by 2.5" by 0.5

One Naked Night (Two original photographs from the 1965 film) by Albert T. Viola (director); Barbara Morris, Joseph Sutherin, Audrey Campbell (starring)

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Title: One Naked Night (Two original photographs from the 1965 film)
Author: Albert T. Viola (director); Barbara Morris, Joseph Sutherin, Audrey Campbell (starring)
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Description: N.p.: Four Seasons Production, 1965. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1965 film. Photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A sheltered country girl, whose mother was a prostitute and committed suicide, trying for a fresh new start in the city, moves into an apartment with pinup models. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear, else Near Fine. Vinegar Syndrome 21.

The Trouble with Harry (Complete set of ten original color photographs from the 1955 film) by Alfred Hitchcock (director); Jack Trevor Story (novel); John Michael Hayes (screenwriter); Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine (starring)

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Title: The Trouble with Harry (Complete set of ten original color photographs from the 1955 film)
Author: Alfred Hitchcock (director); Jack Trevor Story (novel); John Michael Hayes (screenwriter); Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1955. Complete set of ten vintage color studio still photographs from the 1955 film. Stamped production No. 63-71 on the versos and bottom right corner of the rectos. Based on Jack Trevor Story's 1950 novel. The dead body of a local man is discovered in the woods near a small New England town, leading the townspeople to speculate on what should be done with the corpse and, more importantly, the identity of the culprit. One of director Alfred Hitchcock's few true comedies. Set and shot in Craftsbury, Vermont. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000.

Madam Secretary by Albright, Madeleine

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Title: Madam Secretary
Author: Albright, Madeleine
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ISBN: 9780786868438
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Miramax, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.,562pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition, First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper, ($27.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, crease or tears. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To ----, Madeleine Albright". A very pretty collectable copy.

CORRESPONDENCE OF WAGNER & LISZT, trans. into English

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Title: CORRESPONDENCE OF WAGNER & LISZT, trans. into English
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Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Scribners & Welford, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st trans. ed. 2 vols. Gilt covers & spines. Vol. 1: 1841-53; Vol. 2: 1854-61. Beveled edges & bound in silk. Hinges weak. Complte in 2 vols.

The Writer's Forum / Readings by Four Younger Poets [Event Program Signed by All Poets] by William Matthews, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, James Tate, and Gerard Malanga

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Title: The Writer's Forum / Readings by Four Younger Poets [Event Program Signed by All Poets]
Author: William Matthews, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, James Tate, and Gerard Malanga
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: New York: Poets & Writers, Inc, 1975. Very Good +. [New York]: Poets & Writers, Inc., [1975]. Event Program. Slim quarto (25cm); [12]pp. Stiff staple-bound wraps. Black-and-white author photo and brief biography accompany each poem. Wraps bumped and toned. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages toned. Signed by each poet at their contribution. A Very Good or better copy of this event program for two consecutive nights of readings at SUNY Brockport. Gerard Malanga author photo attributed to Diane Arbus.

The Percy Anecdotes, Revised Edition. To Which is Added a Valuable Collection of American Anecdotes...

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Title: The Percy Anecdotes, Revised Edition. To Which is Added a Valuable Collection of American Anecdotes...
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Condition: Good
Description: New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832. Hardcover. Good. Contemporary morocco, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label; 2 volumes bound together, 8vo; pp. 400; 240; each volume with an additional engraved title-p., and a frontispiece with 7 portraits. Boards scuffed; spine dry and chipped. Foxing throughout.

REVISTA DE BELLAS ARTES. NO. 12

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Title: REVISTA DE BELLAS ARTES. NO. 12
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Description: México: Secretaria de Educación Publica; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1966. b/w plates, ports., wrps., ISSN: 0185-3570. OCLC: 2266971. Issue published six numbers a year, devoted to art, literature and culture.

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