Mexico -- Description and travel; United States -- Description and travel
me, as he would like to be my best friend in Mexico,--would I come and
see him whenever I liked without any pretext being necessary and if I
could not produce an interpreter, he would. “But in three years ...” he
said, “I shall speak French!” “and ... I Spanish,” I said. He picked
me flowers from the roof garden, took my arm and helped me upstairs
and expressed in every outward way his desire to be friendly. He said
to me, as I was leaving: “You must know in your heart that I am right
...” and of course I do know it. I have already said it. Obregon has
not yet done anything to immortalize his name in History ... he may
‘go’ tomorrow, and another take his place ... I said to him, “Well, do
something _quickly_ to justify my doing your bust!”
Meanwhile let us “wait and see” what he is going to do!
MONDAY, JULY 25, 1921. _Mexico City._
I see in the newspaper that Einstein has returned to Germany. His
criticism of the United States is quoted in the MEXICAN POST.
He abuses them after all their hospitality, he laughs at their
adulation. He says the men are the lapdogs of the women.... I suppose
the American man’s attitude towards woman is about as extreme in one
direction as the German’s attitude is extreme in another. As a woman
I can only say, “Thank God for the American man.” I suppose the word
‘Hausfrau’ is almost an international word. It describes a certain
type of woman, and it is a German type. The German man has made her
so. Einstein may well scoff at the position of woman in the States.
To him the chivalry of the American man is not easily understood. As
for American people’s enthusiasm over the Einstein theory, “which they
did not understand,” that is probably why they enthused, which they
otherwise might not.
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