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Dr Jones was in the Chair and 31 members were present (Glover, Payne, A. and K. Stephen, Weiss, M. Schmideberg, J. Strachey, Wilson, A. Strachey, B. Low, Bowlby, Winnicott, Klein, Riviere, Isaacs, Heimann, Anna Freud, W. Schmideberg, Burlingham, Lantos, Haas, Ruben Friedlander, E. & W. Hoffer, Sharpe, Brierley, Franklin, Gillespie, Herford) and 1 guest (Dr Macdonald).
The Chairman raises the question whether the minutes should be read, which considering their length would take up much time. It is decided to proceed with the Agenda. Dr Glover wants to make a statement.
Dr Glover: I asked the President's permission to make a statement.
Some time after the last meeting Dr Payne wrote to me in her function as Training Secretary that she had been asked by Mrs Klein (Dr Payne: And several other members) to communicate with me on a statistical issue contained in my speech made at the last meeting, the suggestion being that I might have been guilty of ambiguity, or that the figures might give rise to false impressions.
For example she raised the question as to whether Dr Wilson and Miss Sheehan-Dare should have been counted as adherents of Mrs Klein. I realize that this puts Dr Payne in a rather difficult position and while I do not agree with the view that my figures can give rise to misapprehension, I think it only fair to all parties to make clear