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365. Statement on the League of Nations
[Berlin, 9–15] November
1924[1]
The League of Nations is now already a greater power than was intended by
those who called it into being.
Albert Einstein, November 1924.
366. Statement on Technology
[Berlin, 9–15] November
1924[1]
Technology operates in international relations not merely in that it creates weap-
ons, whose dreadfulness deters wars, but also in that it creates economic dependen-
cies between states that are hard to
sever.[2]
Albert Einstein, November 1924
367. From Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe
Munich, 6 Leopold Street, 9 November 1924
Dear esteemed Professor Einstein,
Such long gaps between letters haven’t happened in years—mea
culpa![1]
But it
simply is so much better to talk than to write, especially with me, as I am gradually
forgetting how to write and am mostly reprimanded by those unfortunate ones who
have to read my letters and who don’t feel like solving graphological puzzles in do-
ing so.
In October I was in Kiel and again had occasion to joust in a few contests with
the H[oly] Ghost, or whoever else it might
be.[2]
In general, I remained victorious,
with the exception of the so-called residual oscillations around the meridian that
are not completely explained yet.
It is a peculiarity of the latest sphere that the so-called damping factor of the de-
flections around the meridian become smaller, the ¢closer² better the meridian po-
sition is reached.
Richter[3]
shifts the blame on the damping vessels, yet they cannot
be entirely to blame for it, because in some cases some rocking could even be ob-
served; hence an energy input. I can only explain this by the detour via the blowout
magnet; in this last sphere it is different from earlier insofar as it no longer has an