D O C U M E N T 4 7 3 F E B R U A R Y 1 9 2 7 7 4 1 Published in Bulletin spécial of the Comité de défense des victimes du fascisme et de la terreur blan- che, February 1927, [n.p.]. A TDS [34 523] with handwritten emendations and signed by Henri Barbusse is also available. Reproduction courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. [1]Dated by Doc. 471, to which the TDS of this document was attached. [2]For Barbusse’s thoughts on the establishment of the committee, see Doc. 471. [3]“White terror” was the term used by leftist ideologues and organizations to describe violent and repressive measures by right-wing governments aimed against revolutionary, leftist, and workers’ organizations in the aftermath of failed attempts to establish Communist regimes in Southern, Cen- tral, and Eastern Europe. According to contemporary Communist sources, 85,000 political deaths were attributed to this wave of violence during the years 1925–1927 (see Novetsky 1966, pp. 109–11 and Palmer 2007, p. 262). [4]Barbusse had been sent to the Balkans in November 1925 by an ad hoc commission of inquiry established by a group of European intellectuals, including Einstein and Romain Rolland, to investi- gate reports of widespread cruelties and atrocities. Within a month, he visited Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Bessarabia, Turkey, Hungary, and Austria. Upon his return to France, he published a detailed report on his trip. His book was also published in German (see Barbusse 1926 and 1927 Stavrianos 1942, p. 36 and Novetsky 1966, pp. 110–112). In it, Barbusse equated white terror with international fascism (see Barbusse 1927, p. 123). At the time of this appeal, Italy was ruled by the fascist prime minister Benito Mussolini Spain was governed by the military dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera Poland was headed by prime minister Józef Piásudski Romania was ruled by Alexandru Averescu, prime minister from the People’s Party Yugoslavia was governed by Nikola Uzunoviü, prime minister from the National Radical Party and Bulgaria was ruled by Andrei Liapchev, prime minister from the Democratic Alliance. 473. From Hermann Weyl Göttingen, Grüner Weg 3, d. 3. 2. 1927. Lieber Herr Kollege! Herglotz stellte mir die Korrekturbogen Ihrer Note zu über das Bewegungsge- setz in der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie.[1] Ich danke Ihnen bestens dafür und auch für die Unterstützung, die Sie dadurch meiner alten Idee über die Materie lei- sten. Immerhin muss ich gestehen, daß ich nicht verstanden habe, was darin über die von mir früher gegebenen Entwicklungen hinausgeht. In meinem Zusatz zu der von Ihnen zitierten Bachschen Arbeit [2] Math. Zeit- schr. 13 (1922), S. 134–145[3] wird der [§ 1 Ihrer Note][4] als Kraft auf den im Gravitationsfeld eingebetteten Körper gedeutet. Kurzes Referat darüber in „Raum Zeit Materie“ 5. Aufl, S. 267.[5] Die Aufstellung der Bewegungsgleichungen ohne Ausnahme über das, was „in- nerhalb“ des Materieteilchen los ist, gebe ich ebenda § 38 (S. 277) der § beginnt mit dem Passus: „Wir wollen jetzt vor allem die mechanischen Grundgesetze bear- beiten, ohne von den hypothetischen Feldern im Innern der materiellen Elementar- teilchen Gebrauch zu machen“. Ich hatte die Sache schon früher, aber nicht ganz so yd ³