l i v I N T R O D U C T I O N T O V O L U M E 1 3 said about the person himself, it should only be done to the extent that objective ideas can be connected to such statements” (Doc. 233). A week later he summed up his fate as a celebrity thus: “Worshipped today, scorned or even crucified tomor- row, that is the fate of people of whom—God only knows why—the bored public has taken possession” (Doc. 241). While Einstein was in Paris, the film The Foundations of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity premiered at the opening of the Frankfurt Trade Fair on 2 April 1922. However, by June, Einstein was disturbed by the frequent references to the film as the “Einstein Film.” He therefore contacted the Berlin distributors of the film and requested that its title be changed to the “Relativity Film” (Doc. 212). In the wake of Rathenau’s murder, he weighed the possibility of spending the summer vacation of 1922 with his sons in Zurich rather than in Germany, in order to create some distance between Berlin and himself. But in the end, a “happy month” with his boys was had by all at the modest garden hut in Spandau, outside Berlin, where he stayed “nicely in hiding,” occasionally commuting to the city (Docs. 306, 329, and 325). In a wider context, Einstein saw the assassination as a consequence of general anti-Semitic prejudices. He wrote to his old friend Maurice Solovine that the “end- less chicanery by the Entente will ultimately be blamed, yet again, on the Jews. There are complaints about major dirty tricks in industry: the destruction of manu- facturing plants under the cloak of military usefulness” (Doc. 293). Rathenau’s assassination had implications for Einstein’s willingness to become a member of the League of Nations’ International Committee on Intellectual Co- operation (ICIC).[18] In mid-May, the secretary-general of the League, Eric Drum- mond, had invited Einstein to join the committee, which would be “responsible for studying international issues of intellectual cooperation.” Among the ten other pro- posed committee members were Henri Bergson and Marie Curie (Doc. 192). The invitation caused some puzzlement. Curie asked Einstein whether he would join, wondering about the committee’s specific aims and functioning, allowing that the League “is a hope for the future” (Doc. 205). Einstein, equally unclear as to “what the constituent committee will be able to achieve,” replied that he had nev- ertheless accepted the invitation “after brief reflection,” confident that the “intent of international rapprochement surely lies behind this endeavor” (Doc. 207). But, as he wrote to his close friend Heinrich Zangger, he had apprehensions: “If I had refused the election into that organization for intellectual cooperation, there would have been new tensions again because no one else from Germany could have in- spired such trust at this moment. I will resign the office again as soon as it can be decently passed on to somebody else” (Doc. 241). But when six days later Rathenau was gunned down, Einstein’s perception of his membership on the committee changed radically. He wrote to Drummond that he