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W. H. GILLESPIE, PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION:
It is my sad privilege to speak here on behalf of the International Psycho-Analytical Association. ERNEST JONES was its deeply respected Honorary President; he did more for the International than any other man, and without him it could hardly have continued to exist throughout the Second World War, and to have flourished once more after it. Although he resigned from the International Presidency in 1949, after a continuous period of service covering seventeen years, as well as an earlier period of four years, his retirement nevertheless made no difference to his active interest in all International affairs, and this included full participation in the work of the Central Executive Committee. His wise and carefully considered advice, based on unique experience, will be sorely missed, above all by myself, the first President to be deprived of that invaluable help. Jones had so much to give, and he was a generous giver—it was this element in his character that enabled him to be so continuously helpful after his retirement without showing any wish to keep power in his own hands, as would have been natural in a lesser man.
We are met here today to pay our last farewell and our tribute of homage and affection to our old friend, colleague, and master. But he was more than that, Ernest Jones was a great man, and a world figure. On such an occasion, many of us may feel that we cannot express ourselves adequately in ordinary, everyday words. The language of poetry, of music, even of religion may seem better matched to the occasion, as in that magnificent statement of triumph over death—So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
But here we are brought up with a shock against the uncompromising rationalism of our great man himself. This should tell us that if any trumpets are to be sounded, they must be sounded on this side, and by us. The significance of death wa