London, June 24.
Negotiations conducted by the Rumanian trade delegation in London are now practically concluded, according to. informed City quarters.
It is stated that the Board of Trade "What is the most obvious world problem to be solved? Is it something to do with nationàl boundaries or racial rivalries or trade or political labels? Professor Einstein thinks not.
Recently at the New York World' Fair the management, for a publicity "stunt" buried a copper capsule containing various informative articles atid books to be dug by the inhabitants of the year 6000 A.D. It was perhaps a rather silly performance. but in some way the Fair management induced Prof. Einstein to write a brief message, to be placed in the capsule, to the world of 6000 A.D. describing our present-day world and its problems.
Unfortunately I have been unable to find the text of the message which 1 read in the New York "Times" some weeks ago. and consequently I shall have to summarize it from memory: In his message he managed with remarkable detachment to divorce himself from his environment and project his ideas in abstract but fundamentally simple fashion in order to bridge the unknown years to speak to the people of 6000 A.D.
He said that we have in 1929 achieved some degree of merit. We can cross the seas in ships which are driven by engines and we have learned to fly. We have contrived many machines which do a number of things so that we are not so dependent upon human hand labour as in the past. A part of our population has been freed from: physical effort Our greatest unsolved problem, however, is the unequal distribution of the world's resources. We have mot yet learned how to make the earth's products available to its people and consequently only a mino-Tity have sufficient for their needs has consented to grant Rumania an additional credit of £5,000,000 over and above the original £5,000,000 granted by the British Government under the terms of the Anglo-
Rumanian trade agreement. The condition for the granting of this supplementary credit is that it shall be used exclusively to purchase war material from British firms.
It is asserted in political circles that the Rumanian delegation endeavoured to obtain a considerably larger
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