308 THE LATER JOURNEYtied 'Raum, Zeit und Schwerkraft' appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei-
tung. A column by Freundlich in Die Vossische Zeitung (Berlin) of November 30
begins as follows: 'In Germany a scientific event of extraordinary significance has
not yet found the reaction which its importance deserves.' However, the weekly
Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung of December 14 carried a picture of Einstein on its
cover with the caption 'A new great in world history: Albert Einstein, whose
researches, signifying a complete revolution in our concepts of nature, are on a
par with the insights of a Copernicus, a Kepler, and a Newton.' As far as I know,
the first news in the Swiss papers is found in the Neue Zuricher Zeitung of
December 10, where it is reported that the astronomer Henri Deslandres gave an
account of the May 29 observations before the December 8 session of the French
Academy of Sciences in which he summarized Einstein's theory by saying that
energy attracts energy.
Einstein himself accepted 'with joy and gratefulness' the invitation to write a
guest article in the London Times of November 28, for this gave him an oppor-
tunity for communication 'after the lamentable breach in the former international
relations existing among men of science. ... It was in accordance with the high
and proud tradition of English science that English scientific men should have
given their time and labour ... to test a theory that had been completed and pub-
lished in the country of their enemies in the midst of war.' Referring to an earlier
description of him in the London Times, he concluded his article as follows: 'By
an application of the theory of relativity to the tastes of readers, today in Germany
I am called a German man of science and in England I am represented as a Swiss
Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bete noire, the descriptions will be reversed and
I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for
the English!' The same Times issue carried an editorial reply, 'Dr Einstein pays
a well-intended if somewhat superfluous compliment to the impartiality of
English science,' to Einstein's first remark, followed by the comments, 'We con-
cede him his little jest. But we note that, in accordance with the general tenor of
his theory, Dr Einstein does not supply any absolute description of himself" in
reply to his second remark. The best description I know of Einstein in 1919 is the
photograph on the cover of the Berliner Illustrirte, a picture of an intelligent,
sensitive, and sensuous man who is deeply weary—from the strains of intense
thinking during the past years, from illnesses from which he has barely recovered,
from the pain of watching his dying mother, and, I would think, from the com-
motion of which he was the center (See Plate II).
November 1919 was not the first time Einstein and relativity appeared in the
news. Frank recalls having seen in 1912 a Viennese newspaper with the headlines
'The minute in danger, a sensation of mathematical science' [F2], obviously a
reference to the time dilation of special relativity. In 1914 Einstein himself had
written a newspaper article on relativity for Die Vossische Zeitung [E38]. Thus
he was already somewhat of a public celebrity, but only locally in German-speak-
ing countries. It was only in November 1919 that he became a world figure. For