204
DOCS. 203-205
MARCH
1916
Barth,[1]
no more
obstacles
ought
to
be
standing
in
the
way
of
publication;
there-
fore,
I
take
the
liberty
of
submitting
the
paper
to
you
without
first
waiting
for
your reply
to
my
earlier
inquiry.
With
regards
from
your very
devoted
colleague,
A.
Einstein.
204.
From Wilhelm
Foerster[1]
Bornim
near
Potsdam, 25
March
1916
Esteemed
colleague
Einstein,
You would do
a
great
service in
bringing peace
of
mind
to
many qualified
people
if in
the
near
future
you
were
able to find
a way
of
addressing
the
Ger-
man
public
to counteract
the
anxiety
of
large segments
respecting
doubts about
previously
held
basic tenets of
our
knowledge
of
the
world and
to
allay
excessive
skepticism.
It
has
perhaps
been
through
certain
figures
of
speech
in
some
recent
popular
explanations
by
our
colleague
Weinstein
or
in
newspaper
reports
about
his de-
scriptions
of
your
“theories”
that
this
unease was
amplified
and
disseminated.[2]
You would not believe how much
one
is
being pestered
now
by inquiries
and
complaints
about this
from
the
most
disparate
social circles.
This
agitation is probably
connected
to the almost
psychopathic
state
of
the
current,
widely spread
sentiments
among
the
populace.
For
ex.,
some are
happy
that
you
had
now
put
an
end to
the
global
confusion caused
by
the
Englishman
Newton,
etc.[3]
Surely you
will
find words
free
of
scholarly jargon
to
introduce
the German
public
to
a
sound and sober-minded interpretation
of
your
so
extremely
important
ideas
and
problems;
but there
really
is
a
need for this
now.
Most
respectfully,
Prof. Wilhelm Foerster.
205.
To
Otto Stern
[Berlin,]
27
March
1916
Dear Mr.
Stern,
Your
last letter
indicates to
me
that
we are
not
going
to be able
to
agree
now
in
writing.[1]
As I have
already relayed
to
you my
reasons
and
I actually
have