Last week earnest, spectacled Dr. Alvin Johnson, director of Manhattan's New School for Social Research, was trying to save some of Europe's un-blown-out brains. He had already succeeded in evacuating many of Germany's best scholars. Last week he and the U. S. Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars were after those trapped in France. Not since the fall of Constantinople in 1453 drove eastern scholars into western Europe has there been such a wholesale migration of culture.
The U. S. public is well aware that ex-German Albert Einstein is now a...
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