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When I accepted the election to the Presidency of the International Psycho-Analytical Association in September 1918 I did so on the supposition that normal conditions would soon be restored and would enable me to enter into communication with the individual constituent groups.
It has turned out otherwise. Budapest was for months quite cut off from all communication with the outer world and is even now accessible postally only with extraordinary difficulty. Under these circumstances I have been unable not only to carry out the programme I had intended as President, but even to continue the normal presidential business, and that in spite of the arduous efforts of our General Secretary, Dr von Freund.
I was thus recently compelled to confide the Presidency to the charge of the Vienna Society (vide Zeitschrift, p. 230). Since, however, Vienna also was by no means free from the disturbances in communication which had led me to transfer the Presidency there, I had to decide on a more radical solution if important interests of the Association were not to suffer from this state of affairs.
I have therefore asked Dr Ernest Jones (111 Harley St., London, W.I.), the President of the British Society, whom I met in Vienna, to conduct temporarily the affairs of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, and begged him to choose a General Secretary from the members of his Society. Jones accepted the trust, and selected Mr. J. C. Flügel (11 Albert Road, London, N. W. I.) as General Secretary.
Until the next Congress, therefore, Dr. Jones undertakes all the rights and duties constitutionally pertaining to the Presidency, including the editing of the Reports of the Association and the collecting of the members' subscriptions. The subscriptions and