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After the long break in the relations between the International Association and the Branch Societies on the Continent of Europe, the first reports of psycho-analytic activity in German-occupied territory have arrived from the French Psycho-Analytical Society. A fuller report has also been received from the Swedish Psycho-Analytical Society, with which communication had been very sporadic during the years of war, as well as a report surveying the first two years of the activity of the recently founded Argentine Psycho-Analytical Society.
Immediately upon the occupation of Paris by the Germans the membership of our Society dropped to two members, Madame Dolto (formerly Mlle. Marette) and Dr. Leuba. Fourteen members out of twenty-four had been called up and were serving with the armed forces. Dr. R. Spitz, with premonition of the coming catastrophe, had gone to America and Dr. H. Hartmann had reached Switzerland. During the hard winter of 1939-40 we had the misfortune to lose Dr. Edouard Pichon. Mme. Morgenstern did not survive the German entry into Paris. Mme. Codet, who had just lost her husband in a terrible accident, took up work in a mental hospital a long way from Paris. To this sad picture of irreparable losses has to be added the name of Dr. Allendy, who died in the country after his demobilization. Mme. Marie Bonaparte succeeded in reaching Greece to join her son. Our Jewish colleagues had either joined the armed forces or had had to go underground. There were thus, from the occupation onwards, only two members left to carry on.
Gradually some of the doctors released by the army returned to Paris, and we were able to form a small centre of activity where our thoughts could once more go beyond mere survival; but there was no question of meeting again as a society, since all societies and all group activity, whatever they were and whatever their