D O C U M E N T 1 7 3 J A N U A R Y 1 9 2 6 3 1 3 I hope that these proposals will in general have your approval. In any event, we shall be grateful to you if you will give us the benefit of your suggestions concern- ing them. Yours truly, J L Magnes TLS (IL-JeCZA L12/95/1). [91 418]. The letter is typed on letterhead “The Hebrew University The Board of Governors” and addressed “Professor A. Einstein 5 Haberlandstr. Berlin, Germany.” [1]In July, the Zionist Executive had proposed a small expansion of the board with an addition of a few notable European Jewish scholars. However, at the second meeting of the BOGHU in Septem- ber in Munich, it was decided to add nineteen new members to the board and to admit three more members chosen by the American university committee. The list of new members included not only a large number of European academics, but also U.S. scholars and backers of the university. Chaim Weizmann and Felix M. Warburg, both influential board members who had not been present at the Munich meeting, opposed this expansion of the board, which now totaled thirty members (see Doc. 24, “Protokoll der Zweiten Sitzung des Kuratoriums der Universitaet Jerusalem, abgehalten am 23. Sept. 1925 in Muenchen” [IL-JeCZA, L12/83/1/1]), Felix M. Warburg to Julian W. Mack, 4 November 1925 [OCAJA, Felix M. Warburg Papers, MS-457, box 220, folder 1], and Chaim Weizmann to Judah L. Magnes, 15 December 1925 [IL-JeHUCA, folder 136]). [2]Two important political developments formed the background to this compromise: the reluc- tance of the Zionist Organisation in London, led by Weizmann, to relinquish control of the university to its governing bodies and the ongoing difficult negotiations between Weizmann and Louis Marshall on the formation of the Jewish Agency (see Judah L. Magnes, “Notes on the Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University, Munich, Sept. 23rd and 24th, 1925” [in Goren 1982, p. 244], Freundlich 1977, pp. xvi–xix, Goren 1996, pp. 214–216, and Doc. 14, note 5). The committee in question was the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee, for which Einstein had raised funds during his 1921 tour of the United States (see Vol. 12, Introduction, p. xxxiv). [3]Einstein had been elected chairman of the university’s Academic Council until the formation of a senate at the Munich meeting in September (see “Protokoll der Zweiten Sitzung des Kuratoriums der Universitaet Jerusalem, abgehalten am 23. Sept. 1925 in Muenchen” [IL-JeCZA, L12/83/1/1]). [4]See Docs. 142 and 164. 173. To Paul Painlevé [Berlin,] 21. [January 1926][1] Verehrter und lieber Herr Painlévé! Entschuldigen Sie, wenn ich deutsch schreibe, ich thue es, ¢der Klarheit wegen² um mich klar ausdrücken zu können. Ich bin Ihnen sehr dankbar für die Besprechung, welche Sie mir in Gegenwart meiner lieben Freunde Lorentz und Curie gewährt haben.[2] Sofort nach meiner Rückkehr setzte ich mich mit Haber[3] in Verbindung. Haber hatte heute mit den einschlägigen Behörden des Reiches und Preussens eine Besprechung, deren Er- gebnis mir Haber soeben mitteilte, damit ich es Ihnen berichten kann. Die Regierungs-Instanzen sind entschlossen, alles zu thun, um die Herstellung des Anschlusses der deutschen (und österreichischen) Gelehrten bezw. gelehrten