Menachem Beigin, former Irgun Zvai Leumi chief, last night criticized Prof. Albert Einstein for calling him and other former Irgunists “fascists.” “I daresay I understand more in mathematics than the old venerated professor understands in politics,” Beigin asserted. He addressed more than 2,000 persons in Manhattan Center.
Declaring that he would not answer “smear campaigns” against him, Beigin said his group is “anti-Fascist,” He reiterated his previous demand that all of Palestine and Transjordan be included in the boundaries of the state of Israel.
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