Einstein accused Serbs on New York Times of killing the Albanologist Milan Shuflay

The frontpage of New York Times, May 5, 1931, and the picture of Milan Shuflay

 On February 19, 1931, Serbian agents assassinated the great Croatian scholar and Albanologist Milan Shuflay. They hit him on the head with a big hammer, ransacked his apartment and stole the manuscript Codex Albanikus, Volume Three, a major work on Albanian history and culture that has never been found.

In all likelihood, has been demolished by the organizers of his assassination. Much has been written about him, but an interesting event has been the public protest against his assassination by Albert Einstein and Heinrich Mann (writer and brother of the other famous Thomas Mann), who publicly condemned Belgrade for this crime.

Their letter is published on the front page of The New York Times.

Even if you see it from the accompanying photo, his column is the first in the day number, May 6, 1931.

The protest letter, which directly accused the Yugoslav king of terrorism and the Belgrade clique, was addressed to the Paris-based Human Rights League. For Einstein and the co-signer of the letter, the macabre assassination of the Albanologist was one more example of the terrorization of the Croatian intelligence by the Belgrade-centric and Serb-centric terrorist regime.