3 1 0 D O C U M E N T 1 7 0 J A N U A R Y 1 9 2 6 170. To Robert Eisler Paris, Le [17 January] 192[6][1] Lieber Herr Eisler! Der Mann mit den vielen Wünschen kommt wieder. Also ich bitte 1) Mich in der Sitzung entschuldigen, weil ich, vor ich wusste, dass Samstag noch Sitzung sei,[2] eine unabänderliche Absprache getroffen habe.[3] Ebenso ent- schuldige[n] dass ich morgen früh abreisen muss. 2) Meine Völkerbunds papiere, die im Sitzungssal liegen, nach Berlin (Haber- landstr. 5) senden zu wollen. 3) Herrn Prof. Hadamard telephonieren zu wollen, dass ich nicht wesentlich vor 9 kommen könne, also nicht zum Essen.[4] 4) mich schon zwischen 3 und 3 ½ abholen zu wollen bei Louis Dreyfus,[5] weil ich dort nicht so lange bleiben will Ich freue mich sehr auf Ihren Vortrag. Einstweilen freundliche Grüsse Ihr A. Einstein. Wenn Sie Ihre Aussage über Herrn Rocco[6] (Freispruch wegen Mord M.) [7] offi- ziell verbürgen können, erzählen Sie es Frau Curie und Herrn Lorentz.[8] ALS (Dr. G. Weishaupt, Mindelheim, Germany). [71 140]. Obscured. On letterhead of Hotel Beaujo- lais Palais-Royal. [1]Dated by the reference to the visit to Louis Dreyfus (see note 5), also mentioned in Doc. 169. [2]Einstein was attending the seventh session of the ICIC, held on 14–18 January. [3]Possibly a reference to his meeting with Paul Painlevé (see Doc. 169). [4]Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) was Professor of Analytical and Celestial Mechanics at the Collège de France, the École polytechnique, and the École centrale des arts et manufactures, and a member of the Association France-Palestine and of the BOGHU. [5]Louis Louis-Dreyfus (1867–1940) was a French-Jewish industrialist and codirector of the Louis Dreyfus Group. Einstein had first met him the previous year in Argentina (see “South American Travel Diary Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil,” 5 March–11 May 1925 [Vol. 14, Doc. 455], entry for 4 April 1925). [6]Alfredo Rocco (1875–1935) was a member of the Italian National Fascist Party and Italian min- ister of justice and religious affairs. [7]On 1 December 1925, twenty-five of thirty suspects in the murder of Italian socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti, killed on 10 June 1924, were released. Among them were three high-ranking fas- cists who were determined to be the actual instigators of Matteotti’s kidnapping and eventual murder. The court decided to release all the accused immediately, except for the five actual slayers, citing the royal decree of 31 July titled “Amnistia e indulto per reati comuni e miltari” (“Amnesty and Pardon for Common and Military Crimes”), which granted amnesty for political crimes except for premedi- tated murder. The decree had been proposed by Rocco and approved by King Victor Emmanuel III on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the king’s ascendancy to the throne (see “Relazione e Regio decreto, 31 luglio 1925, n. 1277” in Gazzetta Ufficiale del Regno d’Italia, No. 177 [1 August 1925]: 3339, and New York Times, 2 and 3 December 1925). [8]Marie Curie. Hendrik A. Lorentz.