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new announcement that Einstein had accepted another appolntaent. Some
of these were completely self-serving and without foundatioa. But Flex-
ner could not knav that. And so he wrote Nrs, Einstein -- it had been
agreed between the three that she would carry on the correspondence be-
cause of her better cmand of English -- that according to the Keu York
= Times HProfessor Einstein has accepted professorships fn Hadrid, Paris,
Brussels, Leyden, Oxford and Jerusalem. The Institute for Advanced
Study, unmentioned, "is thus.,.pleced in a really zbsurd position, from
which it can be rescued in only one wzy: by assembling here in Psince-
ton on October 2nd and showing that your connection here is actual and
that the appointments received elsewhere are honorary ar .semi-honorary
in character." 87
In some of his persuasions the Director said that Einsteinm=
responsibility to the Founders should be uppermost: in his mind at all
times, much as Flexnes sa5d his oun was, He set the example for all who
would c m to the Instftute in effect by saying to Mrs. Einstein that he
constantly refused invitations to speak, and to participate in outside
causes, in the interest of sesving the Institute wfth his full devotion,
Mrs. Einstein did not help matters any when she wrote that hex bband
"was now an international figure in world affairs, having obligations
which would not have bound lesser en.
Flemer's concern was genuine and well founded. The physicist
was caught up in a great crisis in human affairs, beside which his work
and its academic aeemmmdations were lost sight a5. This was not entire-
ly new. Dr. Frank has written that the worsening prospects of tbe Repub-
lic, and the grinding of men and institutions relentlessly between the