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...labyrinthine years, Dr. Otto Nathan tried to get a passport to go abroad "for pleasure and study." About 1,000,000 other U.S. citizens got passports during this period, but Dr. Nathan ran into difficulties. As an economics professor at New York University and the executor of Physicist Albert Einstein's will, Dr. Nathan specifically wants to attend the Jubilee of the Relativity Theory in Bern, Switzerland, to seek cooperation from scientists in preserving and publishing Einstein's manuscripts. But the State Department first stalled, then denied Dr. Nathan his passport, vaguely letting it be known that there...
...State's material was that Dr. Nathan was 1) a German Communist before 1933, when he settled in the U.S. (he denied this), 2) an associate of Communist fronts in Europe and the U.S. (he would not say yes or no to this on the ground that the charge was too vague), 3) an acquaintance of the ambassadors of two Communist satellite states (he admitted this). A fundamental principle was at stake. Is the right to travel abroad a privilege to be granted, like a federal job? Or is it the inherent right of a U.S. citizen, naturalized...
...Nathan graduated from Yale at 18 and became a teacher. For a while he was the schoolmaster at Haddam Landing on the Connecticut River; later he moved to New London, where in the summer mornings he taught a class of girls from 5 to 7 a.m. He was happy in his work, but a few weeks after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, he decided to join the Army and was commissioned a lieutenant. "I have thought much of never quitting it [teaching] but with life," he wrote the New London school trustees, requesting release from his contract...
Immortality at 11 a.m. From that point until his death, the story of Nathan Hale is misted over with legend. It is certain that he wandered through the enemy lines for at least a week and reached Manhattan Island (the lower part of which the British had captured since Hale left Norwalk), that he collected detailed maps of fortifications, with Latin notations in the margins, and hid them under the inner soles of his shoes. Just how he was captured is unknown, but one story put it that he was recognized by a Tory relative as he sat in Rachael...
...Nathan Marsh Pusey, president of Harvard University . . . LL.D...