Is U.S. Headed For Military Dictatorship? Prof. Einstein’s Warning

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 56, 16 June 1948, Page 7

Is U.S. Headed For Military Dictatorship? Prof. Einstein’s Warning

Godfather of the atomic age, Professor Albert Einstein has joined with other top educators to issue a warning that America was heading for military dictatorship. The educators cited these facts to back up their charge— Key positions in America’s foreign policy department are held by military men—General George Marshall as Secretary of State; Admiral William Leahy as the President’s personal Chief of Staff; and General Douglas MacArthur as Governor of Japan. The ambassadors are former Army men. Eisenhower is already president of Columbia, one of America’s most important universities. Other military officers, such as General Leslie Grovers, “exercise almost complete power over the nation’s free scientists.” The Einstein group described the universal military training legislation, which inspired its 32-page report, as another wedge to enable military leaders to become “final and absolute directors of America’s destiny.” The report declared that military influences were spreading into high schools and Boy Scout organisations; and that the Army was surveying the nation’s college system to see how it could be utilised for military purposes.