1. German Society for Race Hygiene. Berlin, March 26th 1923, S, Leipsigerstr. [handwritten]Translation[end handwritten] Major Leonard Darwin, Chairman of the Eugenics Education Society, London W.C. 11, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Dear Sir, On behalf of the German Society for Race Hygiene I have the honour of expressing our sincere thanks for the invitation which you sent to our Society to take part in the future deliberations of the International Commission for Eugenics; and upon consideration of the matter by our Committee I beg to submit the following reply: The German Society for Race Hygiene is, on principle, prepared to take part in the work of the International Commission for Eugenics, and I have appointed to represent our Society in this case. The German Society, however, expresses at the same time the distinct expectation that, by the time when the conference of the International Commission begins - which conference according to your commission will also have Belgian and French members - the atrocious wrong which Belgium and France committed on the German people by the invasion of the Ruhr, thereby violating the Treaty of Versailles with the other nations concerned in the Treaty of Versailles looking on, will have been removed again in a completely satisfactory way. Because, at the present moment the behaviour - without any legal foundation - of France and Belgium towards our German Fatherland and the murders and other atrocities inflicted almost daily on our innocent and defenceless[sic] compatriots by the