Le Coq near Ostend

April 23, 1933        

Dear Solo,

I could not manage to answer your letter on time, so great was the stream of letters and men. I fear that this epidemic of hatred and violence will become widespread. It rises like a torrent until the upper layers are isolated, distressed, demoralized and engulfed by the flood. I now have more professorship than rational ideas in my head. The devil mocks the people!

Enough nonsense. Let us hope that we may still see each other one day when calmness has again enfolded me.

In the meantime I send you my warmest regards.

Your         

A. Einstein

If you see any Jewish academicians who are refugees from Germany, please have them get in touch with me. I would like to try with some friends to found a free university abroad (England?) for Jewish teachers and professors; it might at least meet their most pressing needs and create a sort of intellectual refuge.